Top and Bottom tuning lets you adjust basic tonal and color settings separately for the top and bottom half of your photo. You can increase it to add this ethereal glow or decrease it to emphasize the details. Glow is sort of like the dehaze setting in Lightroom. And it can sharpening your photo without introducing halos. The large details being the bigger, more obvious lines in your photo. You can use it to sharpen your photo but unlike traditional sharpening, you can control the amount of sharpening based on the small, medium or large details. HDR Details Boost sounds really cool and it kind of is. There’s nothing that can do that and I’m not even sure if it’s possible. By the way, it doesn’t remove reflections like a real polarizing filter. The Polarizing Filter setting will help you get those deep blue skies that you’d get if you were to use a polarizing filter on your camera. If you prefer more natural results, just keep this at 0. Basically it adds a glowy effect which is how people create those soft and dreamy HDR photos. For example, I usually like to set the Boost between 50-100% so that I can see what’s happening and then lower it back down to 0 when I’m done. You can fine tune how much smoothing it does and the Boost setting is useful for seeing what’s happening. HDR Denoise reduces noise using their algorithm that tries to preserve edge details. These settings can emphasize noise in your photo depending on how much of it you use. The HDR Microstructure setting targets the finer surface details. It’s a great way to add contrast to the edges. HDR Structure is sort of like the Clarity setting in Lightroom. Smart Tone lets you recover details in the highlights or shadows. As you can see, there’s a ton of dynamic range that we can work with and the photos blend together very well. I’m going to start by adjusting the exposure. I’m going to choose this one here as a starting point and start editing the settings. I’m going to go into the categories and let’s check out some of Trey Ratcliff’s presets.Īs you can see, there’s a preview of each effect and if you hover over it, you can adjust the opacity. Aurora HDR comes with tons of presets that you can pick from. I like to start off with the presets at the bottom. Once your photo is loaded, you can start editing. It works both as a standalone software and a plugin. By the way, if you use Lightroom, you can also load the photos directly from Lightroom to Aurora HDR. It’ll take awhile to load depending on how many exposures you have and the resolution. And enable chromatic aberration removal in case your photo has some color fringing around the edges.Enable color denoise which by the way will only work with Raw files.Enable ghost reduction in case your photos have moving objects like people or cars.Enable alignment in case you didn’t shoot it with a tripod and your photos aren’t aligned properly.For example, I’m going to delete two exposures and you’re going to see later that it’ll still work fine. You can import as many exposures as you need and they don’t need to be evenly bracketed. I’m going to be loading this set of photo shot in Iceland. You can also use just one photo but obviously you’ll have less flexibility in regards to recovering details. You can open your own photos or if you don’t have any yet, you can load the sample images to play around. And that is that it’s very beginner friendly. One of the first thin gs you’ll notice is also what I would consider the second best selling point of Aurora HDR. In this video, we’re going to be reviewing Aurora HDR. But what if there’s another tool that will let you create better HDR photos yet is still easy to use. Typically you’ll need to do further editing in Lightroom or Photoshop. But HDR merge is very basic and results are very basic as well. With HDR photography, you can fix this by taking multiple photos (some darker and some lighter) and then merge them together in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop’s HDR Merge tools. A lot of times when you’re taking pictures, your camera cannot capture the full dynamic range leaving you with flaws such as overexposed skies.
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