Sunset Beach: Creating an HDR Effect on a Photo

Tutorial: AKVIS HDRFactory

Sunset Beach: Creating an HDR Effect on a Photo

When photographing a beautiful landscape, you want the picture to be as colorful and realistic as in real life. But usually the result is a huge disappointment. On a monitor, a bright and rich landscape looks washed out and lifeless.

AKVIS HDRFactory can help you turn an ordinary photograph into a fantastically beautiful and vivid picture.

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Let\'s try to give a photograph a HDR look:

Step 1. Start the standalone version of AKVIS HDRFactory. We open an image and see a gray sea, gray skies, and a pale strip of sunset.
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Step 2. After the program has been started the photograph will be processed using the default settings. The result will be shown in the After tab.
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The image now looks better. There are reflections of the sunset on the sea, the sky has began to take on a crimson hue, and some details have become visible. Let\'s try to achieve an even more brilliant effect.
Step 3. Experiment with the settings: increase the value of Tone Correction, Depth and Color Intensity.
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The resulting image is more colorful and realistic. Objects in the image acquired the desired qualities, and colors became brighter and more saturated.
You can save the settings as a preset to use them later with other images.
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