Quick Tip: Producing a HDR Style Vignette in Photoshop
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Quick Tip: Producing a HDR Style Vignette in Photoshop

on Oct 6th 2010 with 15 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Photoshop CS
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Completion Time: 30 Minutes
This entry is part 4 of 10 in the HDR Photography Session
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In this Quick Tip we explore how to create a dramatic, stunning effect in Photoshop. We’ll take a look at the famed HDR and Vignette effect, and how we can use it to create beautiful and professional looking photos.

Video Description

We start off in Photoshop CS5 (any CS will work), covering different techniques including:

  • Which photos work well, and which don’t
  • Proper technique
  • The best range of effects to use on your photo
  • Vignette and HDR effects

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  • Mattias

    Honestly, that didn’t look good at all. I thought you guys at phototuts had an higher quality standard on your tutorials.

    • http://www.stevendavisphoto.com Steven Davis

      +1

      • http://mcclanegames.com ev149

        +2

    • thonesmfa

      +3

  • tmt

    Sorry to say, but you just ruined a beautiful landscape image. This HDR effect you’re talking about is not HDR, for the simple reason that HDR means only “high dynamic range”, and that’s just the number of the bits stored in one color channel. What you’re doing is a fake tonemapping, which in my opinion destroys the colors and the overall look of the original image.

  • SPC

    You mispronounced Gaussian. The first syllable should rhyme with “mouse” and not “toss” – seeing as the filter is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss (it’s his function they’re implementing). Gauss rhymes with mouse.

  • Travis

    This is a prime example of why I don’t like video tutorials. I want to see a before and after before I start a tutorial or show interest.

    I don’t want to sit through the video advertising and *hope* that the author gives a before and after in the beginning. Plus, it’s hard to see details in the video compared to what a side by side jpg could give.

    • NHS

      I completely agree.

  • Alex

    Good HDR (this is not HDR) is never overdone and looks clean. By the way, I don’t understand the current obsession with extreme HDR where everything has halos and looks unnatural. Why would you want to imitate poor, overdone HDR with an even poorer method that produces worse results.

  • http://www.stevendavisphoto.com Steven Davis

    This kind of “effect” should not be encouraged. Halo’s only occur when HDR’s are processed poorly. It should not be something people STRIVE to achieve. Please don’t encourage this kind of work on images and don’t allow a horrible tutorial like this on PhotoTuts again.

    • sushi

      thanks for that comment, i totally agree.

  • Tyler Reckart
    Author

    Sorry Guys! I didn’t realize this tutorial was that bad. I will never produce such a bad tutorial again!

    My Apologies,
    Tyler Reckart

  • geir Benny

    i wanna check this out so don’t take it down, alway looking for tips how to improve HDR. Good or bad!

  • http://www.cher-lloyd.com Cher Lloyd

    Cool HDR tip. Ive just tried it out on a wedding photo I took last month and it has made it look a lot better. Thanks

  • cunni

    i did like this tut!…when it comes to any kind of image or art, you cant say something is good or bad or that it doesnt look good, it all depends on the taste that we as individuals have.