Probably, you have seen this picture before. But here, there are some post production features that I want to discuss with you. The most visible is a kind of comics-blurred effect. To obtain this, you have to follow these steps:
- First, you take the original picture and make two copies of it.
- Second: open Photomatix, click on Automate, then on Generate HDR.
- The program will ask you the photos to open as HDR. You must select the copies just created and ignore the message of exposure by clicking OK.
- Once the HDR image is created, click on Tone Mapping.
- Then, if you want, you might adjust it and then save it.
Now you can re-iterate these operations, creating two copies of the HDR image just saved. At the end of every cicle the colors will appear more saturate, so consider to desaturate them by using the appropriate Photoshop function. Furthermore, in order to obtain the blurred effect, I added the noise reduction filter in Photoshop, reducing the details percentage. At this point I have modified the tone curves and the proportions between lights and shadows.
This first result is not so wonderful, but I have to improve this technique that I find very nice.
This first result is not so wonderful, but I have to improve this technique that I find very nice.
