Extreme Tone Mapping tutorial - creating extreme modified images with photomatix tone mapping photoshop plugin used software Photoshop CS2 www.adobe.com Image Processing Software Photomatix Tone Mapping Plugin www.hdrsoft.com HDRi Software Xe847 Pro (PS-Plugin) www.xe847.com Color Correction Plugin image format source format JPEG 8bit working format 16bit target format JPEG 8bit start ABOBE's PHOTOSHOP CS2 (www.adobe.com) the original image load the 8bit JPEG file select Menu->Image->Mode->16Bit to convert the 8bit image to 16bit open the photomatix tone-mapping plugin select Menu->Plugin->Photomatix->Tone Mapping... set the parameters as you like. good values are: luminosity: 8..10 strength: 80%..100% color saturation: 0%..30% white clip: 4% black clip: 0.5% smoothing: high microcontrast: high now apply photoshop's auto color correction. select Menu->Image->Mode->8Bit to convert the 16bit image to 8bit and apply the Xe847pro plugin. select Menu->Plugin->xe847.com->Xe847Pro... set a warm color tone and increase the contrast the result will look like this

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High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRi) and Tone Mapping tutorial - creating HDRi (High Dynamic Range Images) with only one camera RAW file - extending dynamic range of images with "HDR"-software - creating special effects with "Tone Mapping" unprocessed original image unprocessed original image used software CaptureOne Pro v3.7.4 www.phaseone.com RAW Converter Photomatix Pro v2.2.4 www.hdrsoft.com HDRi Software Photoshop CS2 www.adobe.com Image Processing Software Xe847 Pro (PS-Plugin) www.xe847.com Color Correction Plugin image format source format Pentax RAW 12bit working format TIFF 16bit target format JPEG 8bit start PHASE ONE's CAPTURE ONE (www.phaseone.com) select the raw format image and create various 16bit tiff files with different exposure settings set the exposure-correction to +0 and send the image to the processing list set the exposure-correction to -2 to recover the overexposed parts of the image and send the image to the processing list process the images as 16bit TIFF files the resulting TIFF files start HDR-SOFT's PHOTOMATIX PRO (www.hdrsoft.com) load the processed 16bit TIFF files select Menu->HDRI->Generate HDR to generate a HDR-image from the selected LDR-images or Menu->Combine->Average to merge the selected LDR-images. choose the better result for processing the next steps. select Menu->HDRI->Tone Mapping for the generated HDR or Averaged Image save the Tone-Mapped image as a 16bit TIFF file the resulting TIFF file after Tone-Mapping (left image: generated with HDR-method; right image: generated with Average-method) start ABOBE's PHOTOSHOP CS2 (www.adobe.com) load the generated 16bit TIFF file select Menu->Image->Mode->8Bit to convert the 16bit image to 8bit apply a correction photoshop-plugin called Xe847Pro (www.xe847.com) save the resulting image as a 8bit tiff or jpeg file the resulting JPEG file after Xe847Pro Plugin (left image: generated with HDR-method; right image: generated with Average-method) in this tutorial an additional perspective correction is applied press CTRL+A to select the complete image select Menu->Edit->Transform->Perspective Distortion the resulting JPEG file after Tone-Mapping (left image: generated with HDR-method; right image: generated with Average-method) {hot link to this tutorial: http://www.xdeltax.com/tuttonemapping/index.html}