Processing HDR Landscape Photography in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom

A newer option in Photoshop’s ACR and Lightroom is the ability to work with HDR photos. These programs can now work in 32 bit mode. What this means to you is the ability to make the enhancements that you are used to with an excption. You are able to work with merged HDR images, meaning that you have a lot more tonal range, or details in shadows and details in highlights to work with. The result is a photograph that looks very close to what you witnessed with your eyes. This is not a tutorial on the basics of HDR and stylized looks, we have that tutorial here.Rather, this is a tutorial on how to achieve the most natural result possible. The adjustments in Camera Raw andLightroom are identical.

Here is the final result

HDR Resources

Check out our free HDR resources at PhotoshopCAFE

Colin Smith’s HDR tutorial

HDR in Camera Raw (Photoshop CC 2015) and quick HDR guide

Basic HDR explaination (Video)

Written tutorial on HDR in Camera Raw (What’s new)

HDR in Lightroom

Tone Mapping HDR in Lightroom and ACR

If you are ready for deeper learning see my Premium training on HDR as well as Photoshop and Lightroom which cover these topics in greater detail for those of you who really want to master the subject.

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4 thoughts on “Processing HDR Landscape Photography in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom”

Chris Smith

November 13, 2015 at 3:34 am

I signed up for your newsletter but did not receive any PS actions, as the prompt stated. I received LR presets but no PS actions. Did I overlook an email or download?

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1. Colin Smith
  
  November 13, 2015 at 8:31 am
  
  There should be both actions and presets in the download
  
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2. Colin Smith
  
  November 13, 2015 at 8:34 am
  
  If you don’t see it, please send a message to Customer Support and we will get it sorted out for you!
  
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  1. Chris Smith
    
    November 16, 2015 at 6:34 am
    
    thank you very much. i’ll check after work today and let you know if i still haven’t located it. my apologies for the delayed response. i was traveling this weekend. have a great day. i really appreciate your tutorials.
    
    chris
    
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