The fact that I had to be so aggressive in recovering shadow detail is most likely the cause of a green color cast that I will next have to address. A small adjustment of the color balance was also made. Heavy use of the Highlights and Shadows sliders along with Smart Tone helped bring out the details I was looking for in the foreground while keeping the sky in-check from overexposing. Next up is making some tonal adjustments in the HDR Basic filter. They can be removed later using a program such as Luminar to erase them. I did choose to leave in the branches in the lower right-hand corner (even though they are a bit distracting). I also like how it produces a classic composition by moving the horizon line further away from the middle of the photo. This allows me to crop out the sun, essentially removing a large problem with this image. By entering a custom ratio of 2:1 while using the crop tool, I am going to convert this image into a panorama. The first thing I am going to do is crop this photo. The foreground is also quite dark, and while I am sure I can bring out more detail there, it might be at the expense of some color shifts and possibly an increase in noise. No matter what I can try, the sun is a lost cause as it's too overexposed. The difficulty with this particular image is that the dynamic range is too large for a single exposure. For best results be sure to check the Tone Mapping option in the open dialog for raw files. Aurora did a great job tone-mapping this single exposure by bringing out some highlight and shadow detail and improving structure, but I will definitely need to do more highlight & shadow recovery in addition to some color corrections. I like to look at a photo when it first loads into Aurora and then analyze it to come up with a plan of attack. Let’s take a look at what we can do with this image. While it is ideal to use multiple bracketed shots (especially when the scene has a large dynamic range like this one has) Aurora can work on single exposures too. The photographer didn’t provide a typical bracketed set of photos for this image, so for this makeover, we'll be using only one exposure in Aurora HDR 2018. Let’s take a deeper look at this file and see what we can come up with. One issue he was having with it was a green color cast. Thanks for joining us on this wild, exciting and successful adventure.Bill Reynolds provided us with this shot taken of the Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks, Oregon. We’re super-excited to bring you cross-platform versions of Luminar and Aurora HDR, and share details about what other goodies our Research & Development team is cooking up. Moreover, the public beta of Luminar for PC will be available in July - we’d love for you to give Luminar a test drive and help us make it as outstanding as it can possibly be.Įven though 2017 seems to be flying by, the best is yet to come. Very soon now, you’ll get a chance to experience Luminar and Aurora HDR on your PC. In fact, it was one of Trey Ratcliff’s first questions when we talked with him about our dreams for a new HDR software product: “How soon can Aurora HDR ship for Windows?” Our “Spidey sense” (and hundreds of people) told us there was simply nothing else like Luminar or Aurora HDR on the PC. More than that though, when we looked at the state of photo software for Windows, we saw a real gap in the market. Skylum software has dramatically increased in popularity - we’re past 4,000,000 downloads on the Mac, plus Luminar just won the TIPA award for Best Imaging Software 2017. Over time… a begrudging respect has emerged between the Mac and Windows teams - the department ping-pong games became fierce, but afterward, smiles and beer are nearly always involved. Our Windows engineering team was formed in late 2015 and it has been working on core architecture and other behind-the-scenes tech since then, alongside our Mac developers. We are True Believers, if you know what I mean. We’ve had the “Best of the Year” pick for 5 years running - something no other Mac photo-editing developer can claim. Our photo editing software has remained in the top 10 of the Mac App Store photo categories since early 2011. We’ve enjoyed (and will continue to enjoy) a super-close relationship with the Apple community. Skylum has been a leading indie Mac developer for nearly a decade. Luminar and Aurora HDR will soon be available on Windows.
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