HDR examples, tutorials and software

23 Jan 2009

L’HDR (High Dynamic Range) or HDRI it’s a fascinating tecnique used in computer graphic or photography that consists to make photos with different exposure to have the “dark” zones well shown in the images with high exposure while “light” zones being well shown in the images with less exposure. General a normal picture is 24 bit, an HDR pic can be 32 bit. The father of this tecnique is Paul Debevec.

Following very nice examples/image galleries of HDR:

- Flickr
- HDRcreme
- Gianluca Nespoli Photography
- Beautiful Examples of HDR photography
- 20 beautiful hdr pictures
- HDR for dummies (Photoshop examples and actions)
- HDR photos PBase.com
- Deviantart

Following also the guides and tutorials how to realize them (the web is full of them i tried pick up the best):

- Una guida per creare fotografie in High Dynamic Range (italian!)
Photoshop video tutorial
Complete HDR How-to
Vittore Buzzi (italian!)
- Immagini HDR con Photomatix o Photoshop CS (italian!)
- High Dynamic Range Photography in Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop help

Lastly the most used software to create/process these images:

- Photomatix (shareware soft)
- EasyHDR (shareware soft)
- HDRShop (shareware soft)
- FDRtools (the basic version is free)
- Photogenics HDR (shareware soft)
- Topaz Adjust (shareware plugin Photoshop)
- Create HDR (online service for creating HDR)
- Qtpfsgui (free and opensource soft)
- pfstools (free and opensource)