HDR image

HDR images made of several pictures taken with a different exposition. It could be under-, over exposured. After all this we just have to put the images together and make some adjustments in photoshop.

First of all I open my image in raw mode. I make 3 jpeg files by under exposing one and over exposing the other one.

Ok now open them in photoshop. After I opened them I'll pick the over exposured one select all with Ctrl+A or we can also use the rectangular selection tool. Ctrl+C to copy the image on the under exposured one with Ctrl+V to paste the image. Now the first image will appear as a layer on the second image.

Now I used the gradient tool to fade away the are what I didn't want on my picture. Using a layer mask set to white and using the gradient tool which is set to black, and just drag it from the area what we don't want to.

From the bottom left corner I applied the gradient tool towards to the centre of the picture. I have also used the dodge and burn tool to lighten or darken a few areas near to that little runnel. The burn tool or the dodge tool is practical if we want to lighten or darken an area. On keyboard just press the O button.

That's how I use gradient tools to create an HDR image.