HDR Hotography is a relatively new way of taking photographs which allows for new frontiers in artistic expression by the photographer and new advances in image capture by your camera.  The basic concept of HDR is the blending of multiple exposures to produce a wider range of visible details in a photograph.  That’s the short description.  If your ready to dig into the detailed step by step instructions on creating HDR photos both in your camera and on the computer, then please read on.

So often I find that I’ll have a large string of separate layers which for whatever reason need to be combined.  For instance, maybe you used 12 layers to produce an interesting background, but now you want to add a guasiann blur to that background.  This is an issue because you cannot add “blur” filter to each layer one at a time, that would take forever, destroy your layer pixels and just look bad anyway.  So what do you do?  Most people will then use the turn off all the layers not part of the background and then use the “merge visible” command in the corner drop menu.  This will work, but has some drawbacks.

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When I’m not shooting photographs or tutoring I still must keep my Photoshop and Lightroom skills sharp.  One of the best ways to do that is to teach others how to make the most of their photos and artwork.  So send in your questions with as much detail as you can muster. I will respond to your question on my blog with full step by step detailed instructions on how to create the effect, look, restoration, etc that you are trying to achieve with your images.