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Photoshop Tutorial: Merge to HDR explained

I am a big fan of landscape photography and to try to save some money I don’t have any Nutral Density Graduated filters, instead I use the old HDR¹ technique that is merging different pictures of the same scene taken at different exposures with Adobe Photoshop using layers and masks.

Now Adobe Photoshop CS2 has a built-in merge to HDR script that, depending on what I read, is really very powerful but I never found, till today, a tutorial that really walk me through it to help me get started.

Well I think that things are about to change since I just found today a great tutorial explaining step-by-step how to realize a Professional HDR Images using Adobe Photoshop cs2.

Here is an example of a exposure challenging picture realized with the proposed technique

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