- Now that the basic development is complete, we've applied
a proper white balance, which could've been done
in the field or tweaked in post and the fact that we've
got the essential lens corrections applied,
let's get the HDR brackets merged together.
To do this I'll switch back to the library module
to see everything.
Now earlier we talked about getting organized and I knew
that this was a five-image bracket and that's great.
You can adjust the thumbnail size here
and if you skipped em, consider going back and watching
those movies to learn how to get these images
properly viewed here.
But now we need to stack em.
So I'll select all those images and right-click
and choose stacking, auto-stack by capture time.
And what I'm doing here is looking
to get them into individual stacks.
Now if you go with too short of a time,
you're gonna get too many stacks.
So I need to adjust the time here until I see five images
per stack, which looks like what's happening.
And I know that I only needed eight shots to get this panel,
but oftentimes I shoot the beginning and end
just for safety in case there's any major exposure changes.
That looks good, none of the images are left unstacked
so I'll click the stack button and it builds em.
Now it's very easy to select an individual stack.
We can simply see that there and click to expand.
Alright, let's select the first five images.
I'll command or control click to deselect
and then grab the range and choose photo, photo merge, HDR.
Now in this case I'll uncheck Auto Align.
You may or may not need it, so I'm just gonna leave
this off here since I was on the tripod
and I was pretty sure of what I was doing.
I also don't need any deghosting.
Auto Tone will attempt to analyze the scene
and automatically adjust the exposure.
Remember it's essentially fusing these different
exposures together to recover areas outside the window
plus proper exposure inside.
When I'm satisfied with that I can click merge
and it will begin to create that HDR.
Now the first one's done.
I can select the next five and I can go through
the same steps again of photo merge,
but I can also simply add a modifier key of control + Shift
and it will just invoke the same command again
without bringing up the dialog.
So that makes it much easier.
And let's keep going here.
I'll grab the next five and let's
adjust the thumbnails now to six across.
There we go.
And you can see that it has created the next range.
So I'll just grab this and press Ctrl + Shift + h
to invoke the same HDR merge again.
Remember you can click up here to see what it's doing
and it's saving off that HDR.
As we get each one done, I'll simply scroll down
and grab the next five images.
One, two, three, four, five, Shift + Ctrl + h.
Grab the next five: one, two, three,
four, five, Shift + Ctrl + h.
And you'll see that it creates each HDR.
One, two, three, four, five, Shift + Ctrl + h.
And we just work our way through the remaining images
and once that's complete, we should have all
of the HDR images.
Now once we've created the HDRs, we can invoke
a photo merge for the panoramic.
But before I do that I just wanna
narrow things down a little bit.
You'll notice that we now have more images.
So as soon as this finishes this operation,
we'll be able to actually filter out the view here
in the library so only the HDR files remain.
Those are the ones we'll use for the panoramic.