Photoshop - High Dynamic Range Mastery Course

Learn the secrets of HDR photography

Instructor: Ben Willmore Photoshop Guru, Ben Willmore, shows you step by step how to master High Dynamic Range (HDR). HDR is the process of taking a sequence of exposures, allowing you to lighten your underexposed areas and darken your overexposed areas to better simulate what your eye would actually see. You will see how to best choose subjects for HDR, such as watching for movement, clouds, sensor dust, and when you can find the ideal light to master HDR. Ben will show you how to merge exposures to enhance or add an illustrative effect to your photographs.

Want to learn the secrets to creating beautiful HDR photographs? xTrain, a provider of online video training courses has announced a new high dynamic range (HDR) Mastery online video course by Photoshop expert Ben Willmore.

HDR is the process of taking a sequence of exposures, allowing you to lighten the underexposed areas and darken the overexposed areas of a digital image to better simulate what the human eye would actually see.

This course shows learners step-by-step the best practices of creating HDR photos. Students learn how to best choose subjects for HDR, such as watching for movement and clouds, and when to find the ideal light for HDR. Ben Willmore's HDR Mastery course is divided into four classes: shooting for HDR, merging exposures, processing HDR files, and enhancement.

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Note: following along with the course requires PhotoMatix Pro software.PhotoMatix Pro is what is used in the course to create the HDR photos. Having Adobe Photoshop also is very helpful to follow along, but not essential.