Amateur Photographer (2019-04-13)

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Know your ‘most selected’ fi le
When you select several fi les in Lightroom,
one of them will be the ‘most selected’ and
therefore given priority. If, when making an
HDR or panorama, the ‘most selected’ is mono,
the merged image will carry the same settings.

For greater

stitching control,

buy dedicated

software

The most

selected file will

have a slighter

brighter box

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16 bit or 32 bit?

Lightroom produces a 16-bit HDR in

the Adobe DNG raw format. If you prefer

to work with a bigger 32-bit HDR, you can

easily create one using Photoshop’s Merge

to HDR feature. This will also give you the

option to send the image fi le to Camera

Raw for toning (which handily offers

near-identical controls to those in

Lightroom’s Develop Module).

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Go pro with panoramas

For greater control over panorama

stitching, consider buying dedicated software

like PTGui (£88 for a personal licence). This

takes panorama stitching to the next level.

You can choose from multiple projections

and create multi-level or 360° panoramas,

plus – unlike Lightroom – there’s no

maximum image size.