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How to make a HDR picture with photoshop in one minute

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In the latest versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop it has become very easy to create a HDR picture from different images shot with different exposures (HDR Bracketing).

I will use 5 images I’ve shot a couple of years ago in the National Museum of History in Oxford with HDR Bracketing. If you want to learn how to take the images with the different exposures, take a look at our tutorial about HDR Bracketing.

Let me start by showing the result of the processing.

HDR image in the National Museum of History in Oxford

In this post and video, I will show you the easy steps to take to create a HDR picture in Photoshop. You can watch the video, or read the text, or both…

Here are the different steps:

  • Select your images with a different exposure from lightroom ( I usually take 5 images going from -2 ev to + 2 ev.
  • Select the 5 images, and in the develop mode, in the tab lens correction, I select “Remove Chromatic Abberation” and “Enable profile corrections”.
  • I go back to the library mode and with the five picture selected, I right-click one of the pictures.
  • Now I can select Photo Merge, HDR … but I won’t  select that because that is the HDR action of Lightroom and this video will show how to do it in Photoshop. So I click, Select “Edit in -> Merge to HDR pro in Photoshop”.
  • Photoshop will open up and start importing the 5 images from lightroom. Once imported Photoshop will align the image
  • A new screen will open and then this screen where you can set the white point (I usually set it to not blow out brightest part of the picture) and select remove ghosts (in this image some people were moving in between shots, so to remove that motion blur, I will select remove ghosts). The picture with the green rectangle will be used as a basis.
  • Next click OK and Photoshop will create the HDR. Once the processing finished, just save and close the picture. After saving the picture will appear in Adobe Lightroom, where you can adjust the picture to your liking.
  • Next step is to export the image and you have a beautiful HDR image.

I hope this was helpful to you, let me know in the comment and don’t forget to subscribe for more videos.

HDR Photography – Roman baths in Bath

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In september 2016 we were visiting the southern part of England (UK). I shot a sequence of several bracketed exposure photographs on my tripod, capturing the interior of the roman baths and the cathedral in the background. This HDR photograph is a picture created out of five bracketed shots, post-processed with Photomatix and Photoshop.

post-processing HDR picture of roman baths in Bath

The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.

Bath was founded upon natural hot springs with the steaming water playing a key role throughout its history. Lying in the heart of the city the Roman Baths were constructed around 70 AD as a grand bathing and socialising complex. It is now one of the best preserved Roman remains in the world.

Some evenings the Roman bath is lit with fires, just like in Roman times. That night it was windy and rainy, but still an ideal moment for a great shot with the lit cathedral in the background.

Available for licensing via 500px

If you want to learn more about how I make theses kind of photographs, a good place to start is to take a look at my Free HDR Tutorial. It explains my process and is an easy to follow step by step guide.

I’d love to hear what you think about this photograph! Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

How to use Auto Exposure Bracketing for HDR Photography

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Making multiple pictures with different exposure levels is called exposure bracketing. Exposure Bracketing can be done manually and automatic depending on the possibilities of your camera. Almost all modern digital cameras have a feature called Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB).

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