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This will probably start a thread, but hey, the more the merrier.
After I process landscape images in Photomatix Pro, I open the HDR’s in Photoshop CS4 to to deal with the prominent halos in skies above trees and buildings. I could back off on HDR’s Strength or boosting Smoothing, but that defeats why I’m using HDR in the first place. If I try cloning out the halos in Darken blend mode, the results are blotchy, and Darken tends to ‘leak’ and gray the edge of the horizon/ trees, buildings. I’ve tried selecting the sky with Color Range, Magic Wand, and even Topaz Remask, putting the problem area on its own layer and hammering away at it there. The blotch problem stays.
I envy the HDR images I see where here are zero halos, but they never explain how they got rid of them. What’s the best way? Thanks in advance.
After I process landscape images in Photomatix Pro, I open the HDR’s in Photoshop CS4 to to deal with the prominent halos in skies above trees and buildings. I could back off on HDR’s Strength or boosting Smoothing, but that defeats why I’m using HDR in the first place. If I try cloning out the halos in Darken blend mode, the results are blotchy, and Darken tends to ‘leak’ and gray the edge of the horizon/ trees, buildings. I’ve tried selecting the sky with Color Range, Magic Wand, and even Topaz Remask, putting the problem area on its own layer and hammering away at it there. The blotch problem stays.
I envy the HDR images I see where here are zero halos, but they never explain how they got rid of them. What’s the best way? Thanks in advance.
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