Alright, I know all of my Photoshop friends were wanting to do HDR photos like I made in Lightroom. So I went on a search for a Photoshop Action Similar to the Preset in Lightroom. I found it, is is called HDR for Dummies. Ha ha! There are no directions how to use it where I found the link. So I am going to tell you how I got this photo
to look like this.
Now this may not work for your photos but I tried to get my photo to look the same as it did when I was done in Lightroom. I also made a Colorful Action to look similar to Kelsey Smith’s Crayons Lightroom Preset that I used on my other photos.
First I opened my photo and ran the Colorful Action. I left all the layers there so you can adjust to your liking. My saturation for colorful is boosted up really high. For any other photo you will probably want to lower the saturation some.
After you run the Colorful Action flatten the image.
Then, this is the part where I just kind of made it up. When you see the HDR action it says HDR for Dummies, Brighten Shadow with USM-{Unsharp Mask} and Brighten Shadow.
I run both brighten shadows first. Do not flatten the image. Then I run the HDR for Dummies. When the gaussian blur box popped up I left it at the original 11.0. I also added the Burnt Edge Action from MCP for a slight vignette. Then I did unsharp mask at 125% ; 3.0 pixels ; Threshold 3.
With that I get this result.
Just for comparison here is that same photo edited in Lightroom.
Which do you like better, Lightroom or Photoshop?
I think I like the lightroom slightly better. I am still working to perfect my Colorful Action. I still need to do some research on how to make it colorful without bumping up the saturation so much. I still have so much to learn about Photoshop.
If you do not want the colorful you can always edit your photo to your liking then use the HDR for Dummies.
I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions or suggestions I am open to them. Just email me. If you do try this I would love to see them. Just link to your post or photo in the comment section. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. As always thanks for reading.
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