Manual HDR Blending in Photoshop For Hotel Or Real Estate Photography

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

The action I use can be downloaded here : louimagin.gumroad.com/l/HDR-action

[@immersivetechnologysolutio1838]

Thank. you... strangely when I run it the "--" layer does not go into the group... any idea why?

[@JeahnLaffitte]

Interesting! I never thought of manually blending hdr brackets. It’s great to see the hand crafted approach to it

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

The look is usually nicer when blended manually. Here it's the beginner tutorial because there is the curtain haha. But when you really have dark shadows in the room, and still wanna see outside of the window, in my opinion it looks better blended manually than with the automation in CameraRaw/Lightroom or PS.

[@BigBigNRGY]

That's absolutely amazing. Brilliant! Thank you for this. Merci.

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

My pleasure !

[@MatthewInstrumentalMusic]

Easy to understand, thanks for the tutorial!

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

happy it helped ! thanks for watching

[@oliviertorres8001]

Le point avec la méthode présentée içi, c'est qu'il y a une évolution de la balance des blancs entre les différentes prises si elles sont utilisées telles quelles. Pour moi, la teinte des rideaux est un petit peu trop froide. Personnellement, pour ne pas utiliser les images - et --, je fais une prise avec le flash. Je trouve plus facile de gérer le contre-jour des fenêtres de cette manière. Mais sur le fond, on est d'accord, c'est 100x mieux que du HDR automatic...

[@GrayMcQuarrie-GVA]

Thank you for this! I have gravitated to Photoshop. I had an error pop up on the action.. something like command select didn't work. However, I just added the masks manually on my images that I tried your techniques. I am so glad you used selection to keep from spilling over areas you don't want. And, I think this is the first video I have seen on photo editing where someone used the pen tool for making selections. Very well done!

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Hey! That's not normal for the error. How many photos did you have ?

[@AMSAlternativeMediaSources]

thanks you so much, But what shortcuts are you using to modifi the brush ?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

That's control+option and then with your mouse/pad/tablet you go to right or left to change the size or up and down for the hardness of the brush

[@AMSAlternativeMediaSources]

​@@louimagin.learnretouching BTW honestly thanks you so much for such a great tutorial! I also hate the automatic results.. they look just bad. But I haven't found a right way to over do this jobs.. and it was tedious! I am working as a photographer did a lot of different projects.. and I am self-taught.. and Its the hard way to learn... closing doors, but learning overtime! And definitely this tutorial helps me a lot! KEEP ON!!

[@dougstevens2012]

@@AMSAlternativeMediaSources totally agree. most on YT are trying to sell the automated which isn't there yet.

[@fernandobonenfantphotography]

luminosity mask hand blending is an easier and quicker way to do real estate

[@MrWolfenhausen]

Yes, keep them coming, this was very helpful!

[@Magnificozas]

So is there any tutorial of next steps like colour and geometry process?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Hey, no I don't have these tutorials dedicated to real estate or hotel photography but that's a good idea :) Thanks for the suggestion

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

Very cool... never thought of doing it manually! nicely done! Cheers! Question: do you use flash at all (strobes) for your work in real state...? thanks!

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Very glad it taught you something ! Considering I'm traveling much, I shoot HDR only. The day I settle down, I'd totally go with flash and flambiant techniques

[@BigBigNRGY]

Will this PS action work if you only take 3 bracketed photos and not 5?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Yes it will !! If it's more than 5 it won't, but less it's ok. You just have to click "ok" or next until the action finish to run. If you happen to always shoot 3 bracketed photos, you could also modify the action! If needed contact me at [e-mail] and I'll send you an action for 3 photos.

[@Travelwray]

Love the tutorial. I would like to see your entire process from beginning to end. Thank you

[@rajeshvelan9585]

Thanks so much 🎉

[@abphoto4]

Thank you for this video. How did you remove the wrinkles from the bed sheets?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

I mostly used frequency separation !

[@abphoto4]

@@louimagin.learnretouching never heard of that. google I go.. thanks

[@thefmrr5581]

Merci pour le tutoriel :) :)

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Avec plaisir !!

[@16goncalo]

really nice job, and also thanks for the actions. do mo tutorials like this, if possible with windows without curtains..

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

My pleasure! I'm glad to read you like it, I'll definitely make more of this type of video if you find them interesting! With windows is the same method, but definitely a bit more tricky :) Happy to make a video about it soon as well !

[@marcoshuayai3995]

So i dont understand? do we need to add 3 photos the same imagen but differnet color so it can combine a good color? . Or it can be different photo. ?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

This is not about colors, it must be different images with different exposure

[@fransantiagophotography]

Buen aporte! Me gustaría ver ese vídeo para que llegues a la imagen final 👌 gracias 🙏

[@michaelfrymus]

I am not shooting real estate. When I did, this was similar to how I edited HDR, but now I shoot more landscapes/outdoor content. I am wondering how I would be able to go about editing the image to the look I want (grade), and also doing this HDR technique. Typically, when you stitch multiple images together as an HDR, then you cant really edit the image afterwards to the same capacity as its not the RAW file anymore. I edit in Lightroom, but do HDR in photoshop

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

This is actually exactly the same technique for editing landscape, or cityscape (that's what I do) You can shoot bracketing images, and use the technique shown in this video. Or, if you have one RAW image, when developing it in Lightroom, you manually create 3-5 images by changing the exposure, which you will then blend with this HDR technique. Now, if you want to use the maximum of the RAW file, you can do a pre-color grade in lightroom before going to PS to edit the HDR, and you'll apply the settings (except exposure of course) to all the image. Now, except if you're doing DRASTIC changes, if you have a good image, even if you edit and color grade in PS after the HDR edit, you'll still have good quality. Hope it's clear ! But that's a good question, I might do a video with a cityscape image to explain that :)

[@prajjwaljoshi697]

what if we have only one photo without other exposure then what should we done please help

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Then it's not HDR anymore ... There are ways to manually create different exposure through editing but that's a completely different technique ! Might make a video about it later !

[@Phocasa]

Command C, command V is not behaving for me. It's not putting the images in a stack of layers as one file? It's just making a 2nd copy of the file but not grouping them under one group of layers

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

@@Phocasa did you use the action ?

[@BoomerLicks]

No actually, I thought the script would run after those layers were added with command c/v. I’ll check out the script. It’s weird though, I clicked on the tabs of open files and used command c/v just like you did and it just didn’t work for me.

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

@@BoomerLicks oh hold on, you're referring to the file organization. Are your photos opened as a smart object ? You can know that if the layer has a little rectangle on the bottom right of your layer icone. If it's not a smart object it's going to be locked (locker icon on the right of the text layer) It has to be a smart object or be unlocked for you to be able to do cmd C/cmd V

[@PRANAYKANSARA]

How you edit bedsheets?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

It depends, I use a mix of healing brush & frequency separation :)

[@taolu03]

Hi Lou. Nice sharing. Maybe could you look at exposure blending using luminosity mask. It will make your life much easier, especially for the blown highlights of the windows. Anthony Turnham has a nice series of tutorials ;-)

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

That's a different technique that you can use yes :) You gotta be extra careful with it tho

[@taolu03]

Not at all, same technique. Just a complementary tool to make your selections. You could do exactly the same and only use luminosity masking to make your window selections. They would be more precise ans much faster. The pen tools is not always the best option (think bright day light with shades or some objects and a plant in front of the windows...)

[@fyhrvideo2188]

What about LRC HDR auto function? I think i can get almost the same result in just under a minute. i May be wrong. What's your experience?

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

Yeah I believe I'm saying it at the begining of the video, I personally don't like the result, that's a lot less flexible also.

[@fyhrvideo2188]

@@louimagin.learnretouching Sorry, okay. Will try this method sometime. Thanks for the video.

[@dottorcarlone]

All beautiful, yeah but it s a loosing game! When doing real estate you want VOLUME, you can t loose 3 hours shooting a house and 3 hours in post to just deal with the manual blending of hundreds of photos to have the perfect picture! If you use this process, you waste way too much time, and time is money!! Use the rule 80/20 if the photo is good enough, just is not worth spending extra time, especially if you don’t work for an architectural studio that pays you thousands for a shoot! You guys need to start getting to the nitty gritty of things.

[@louimagin.learnretouching]

You're right. It depends on the project. But if you can take the time to work on quality that's a technique to consider. If you can't ... well ... You don't look for tutorials for Manual HDR blending I guess :)

[@dottorcarlone]

@@louimagin.learnretouching i was curious after reading manual hdr blending in real estate 😄😉

[@Thepathof77]

Agreed! There’s no way you can spend a ton of time with one photo when you’ve got a 15 hr turnaround and 75 photos for just one home. Especially when you have 2-3 shoots a day

[@amad523]

good