Create Balanced HDR

Create Balanced HDR in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Blend a bracketed set of exposures into one balanced image that retains highlight and shadow detail.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Blend the bracketed exposures into one balanced image retaining highlight and shadow detail: align…
Blend the bracketed exposures into one balanced image retaining highlight and shadow detail: align frames, auto-blend or use exposure merge, fine-tune in Camera Raw, and export a 16-bit TIFF for further editing.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before passing the blended HDR to color grading, make sure it holds for print: align and merge the…
Before passing the blended HDR to color grading, make sure it holds for print: align and merge the bracketed set preserving local contrast, remove ghosting, apply highlight and shadow recoveries in Camera Raw, produce a 16-bit TIFF plus a 100% crop showing preserved detail in highlights and shadows for the retoucher to inspect.

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