{"id":8739,"date":"2012-06-12T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2012-06-12T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:18:35","slug":"sharpening-with-hdr-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/8739\/sharpening-with-hdr-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Sharpening With HDR Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHDR software is most typically used to render shadow and highlight detail,\u00a0but it also can be used to enhance tonal separation and detail in any range of tones, even in images with extremely low contrast. The very same tools that are used to compensate for HDR side effects can be used to sharpen any image.
\nWhen multiple bracketed exposures are merged into a single processed file, shadows and highlights that exceed the dynamic range of a camera’s sensor are compressed into the dynamic range of a digital file, taking the midtones with them. Depending on the HDR software used, a variety of tools are available to restore contrast and separation in midtones. If used aggressively, these tools produce the telltale signs of contemporary or grunge HDR artifacts: halos and texture accentuation. These are the very same artifacts that digital sharpening routines use more conservatively to make images appear sharper\u2014only they look different.
\nUnlike the hard halo and line produced by the filter Unsharp Mask and more like the soft line produced by the filter High Pass, HDR sliders can give you still more points of control over line and texture, each with a slightly different flavor.
\nFind details on using Adobe Photoshop and NIK’s HDR Efex Pro.<\/a>
\nRead the full article on Digital Photo Pro.<\/a>
\nFind more sharpening resources here.<\/a>
\nLearn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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