Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

APPLY HDR TONING to just one photograph
The dynamic range of a camera’s sensor is more
limited than the human eye. You can combine
multiple photos shot at different exposures to produce
a high dynamic range image that more closely
resembles what the eye can see. The HDR tools in
Photoshop are also often used at extreme settings to
combine multiple exposures and create surrealistic
effects.
With Photoshop, you can use the HDR Toning
adjustment on just one image and produce a realistic
photo with more detail. You can also push the sliders
in reverse to intensify the shadows, highlights, and
details and create an image with hyper-contrast for
surrealistic effects, or diminish the intensity to soften
the details to create an image with a more ethereal
look, or anything in between. The default settings are
for producing photorealistic images. You can select
any of the other presets and also customize any
settings by moving the sliders and adjusting the
curve.
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1 Open a photo.
Note: This task uses a low-resolution photo
such as one taken with a cell phone. These
steps can also be used to simplify any photo
to prepare it for digital painting with any of
the painting techniques shown in Chapter 9.
2 Click Image.
3 Click Adjustments.
4 Click HDR Toning.
Note: The tone-mapping adjustment cannot
work on a Smart Object or multiple layers, so
a warning dialog box opens telling you it will
flatten all layers first.
The HDR Toning dialog box opens and
automatically applies the default preset.
Note: The steps that follow are for creating a
dreamy, misty look.
5 Click and drag the Detail slider to the left
to soften the details.
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6 Click here to open the Toning Curve and
Histogram.
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