>>2914532>>2914532instead of Photomatix, I get better results with HDR Pro right from Lightroom.
Here's my HDR workflow:
1. In grid view ('G'), select all images for HDR (I usually only do 3 bracket exposures), then go into develop ('D')
2. Make sure Auto Sync is on, so whatever changes you make to one image affects all the images in your selection
3. In Lens Corrections, check "Enable Profile Corrections" and check "Remove Chromatic Aberration" if needed
4. Same section, use the AUTO or the VERTICAL button to see if that straightens your image's verticals. 90% of the time this works perfect for me, otherwise I set it back to off, choose the tab Manual, and manually adjust the image that way making sure to turn on the grid option to align the verticals.
5. Crop and set white balance
6. Return to grid view (G)
7. Here's where the HDR Pro magic happens. Select your images for the HDR, right click, go down the pop up menu to EDIT IN, select "MERGE TO HDR PRO IN PHOTOSHOP"
8. Photoshop will open the images, make sure to select 32 Bit if prompted. It's going to open Camera Raw in photoshop and you will see sliders--DON'T MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO SLIDERS
9. You'll have to click ok a couple of times in Photoshop while it does its thing to create images.
10. When Photoshop is finished processing image, click EDIT, SAVE, then CLOSE
11. Your HDR will automatically be imported into Lightroom. Now you can go to the Develop module and edit it just like a RAW image. The only thing that won't work is the enable profile corrections (which is why we already did that before we made the HDR).
The downside to this method is you can't batch process, you have to do each image one by one.
HDR is good but if you want better quality images, I encourage you to transition to flash.
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