Monday, May 28, 2012 – Good afternoon/evening!! I hope that everyone had a relaxing memorial day!! So this is the fourth part in my series and I do have a picture to show for it. Now if you remember in my last post I talked about contacting Imagenomic. Well I made a mistake and who I really needed to contact was HDRsoft. I sent them an email I think it was yesterday and asked them if there is a way to tone map a tiff without applying noise reduction. I am really excited to hear back from them and see what they have to say. So instead of waiting for their response I worked on the file:
- Applying changes in ACR
- Exporting the file as a tiff
- Tone mapping with NR applied
- Saving settings
- Exiting out of that and closing the 32bit hdr file
- Re-opening the file
- Batch processing a single file using the saved settings
- Saving the processed tiff file
- Opening Imagenomic’s Noiseware and applying NR
- Saving the file again
- And finally posting in photoshop
Here is the finished product!!
This has also taught me a new method in my actions that I am really excited about. So in doing some reading I have found that the way that I have been applying my High Pass sharpening might not be the best method. What I was doing was duplicating my layer, changing that layer to a smart object, applying high pass sharpening, and changing the blending mode to overlay. The reason I liked this method was it allowed me to change the amount of sharpening by clicking on the filter. What I am doing now in contrast is I created an action to take a snapshot of my layers prior to merging all layers, then I merge all layers, duplicate my background layer, apply high pass sharpening, and finally change the blending mode to overlay. I created a pause so I can control how much sharpening is applied. Super sweet!! Anyway hope you like the photo and have a great rest of your day!!