Photoshop High Dynamic Humanities photos with textured HDR

Adjust the idea: this example is similar to the performance of HDR high dynamic photos, so that highlights, midtones and darkened photo details are highlighted, and do not need to set a large number of HDR composite parameters, you can get a similar effect. In addition, by increasing the dark angle, strengthen the details of processing, increase the feeling of the picture.

Technical Analysis:

At the time of making this example, the main use of the "Shadow/highlight" command to display more details of the dark and highlights, to the initial production of HDR high dynamic photo effect, and then combined with the "lens correction", adjust the layer and blending mode features, to increase the dark angle of the photo and adjust the contrast, color and other attributes. (1) Show details of Shadows and Gaoguo

This photo is slightly backlighting when shooting, so the characters are darker and the background is brighter, so let's correct this problem first.

Press Ctrl+j to copy the background layer to get the Layer 1 layer, right-click on the layer name, select Convert to Smart Object in the pop-up menu, and make the filter that is applied to the layer later to be able to generate smart filters for editing.

Select the image-Adjust-shadow/highlight command to set the shadow and highlight parameters in the pop-up dialog box to display details of the light and dark parts of the photo, and to initially adjust the effect of the HDR photo.

(2) to increase the dark angle for the photo

Press Ctrl+alt+r or select the filter-Lens correction command to add a dark corner effect to the photo by selecting the Custom tab in the pop-up dialog box and adjusting the halo parameter.

When you get a satisfying result, click OK to exit.

(3) Adjust the special hue

The following uses curves to adjust the layers and edit each color channel to add a special tonal effect to the screen.

Click the Create new Fill or adjust Layer button. Select the "curve" command in the pop-up menu, get the "curve 1" layer, select the "Red" green "blue" and "RGB" channels in the Properties panel and set the parameters to change the tone and contrast of the photo.

(4) Further deepen the hue

The following will be combined with the "gradient map" adjustment and blending mode features to further enhance the color of the photo, make it more thick and highlight the vicissitudes of the feeling.

Press D to restore the foreground and background colors to the default black and white color. Then click the Create new Fill or adjust Layer button, select the gradient Map command from the menu that pops up, and get the gradient map 1 layer, which will automatically use the gradient from the previous color to the background color (that is, from black to white) in the Properties panel. And the photo will be processed as black-and-white effects.

Set the blend mode of the gradient map 1 layer to soft light and opacity to 70% to enhance the color of the photo.

(5) Sharpening of the details

At this point, we have completed the photo exposure and color processing, the following will be sharpened to enhance the details of the photos, so that the photos more visual appeal, which is a very common in the humanities photos of a treatment.

Select the layer at the top of the layers panel, press Ctrl+alt+shift+e to perform a "stamped" action, and merge all currently visible photos into the new layer to get the Layer 2 layer.

Select the filter-Sharpen-USM command to set the appropriate parameters in the pop-up dialog box. The following illustration shows a local effect before and after sharpening.

Final effect Diagram