

Disable the Batch Mode option since you only have 1 set of photos selected. Hard Mask works well on images with really fine details (ex. If you want better results, you can try enabling a Hard Mask but this can sometimes increase noise. In the Fusion options, you can tell how much importance/weight to place on the exposure, saturation, and contrast. The default settings work fine and we recommend it for starting off. The enfusing is really quick ? it?s just the image alignment that takes a long time to process. If you?re unsure, just enable it but it will add a significant amount of rendering time. This will align your images for you but will slow down the processing time but quite a bit. If you didn?t shoot your pictures with a tripod, checkmark the ?Automatically align images before blending them? option. This menu option is only enabled if you have a set of bracketed images selected.

Go to File > Plug-in Extras > Blend exposures using LR/Enfuse. To enfuse your images into HDR, start by selecting three images of the bracketed shot. If you have a sing-core processor or older, select the one of the other two options. Select ?Enfuse 4 for multi-processors and Align_Image_Stack? then click install. Once you have LR/Enfuse installed, select any picture then go to File > Plug-in Extras > Blend exposures using LR/Enfuse. Click on the Add button then browse for the ?LREnfuse.lrplugin? file that you just extracted. In Lightroom, go to File > Plugin Manager. To install, unzip the file that you downloaded. Then, if you like it, you can donate more afterwards. Personally, I recommend that you just donate the $3 and skip the trial version. Since it?s donationware, you can pay however much you can afford and you can buy it for as low as $3.19 USD. The free download limits your output size to 500 pixels so we recommend buying it. If you want the most natural HDR images, then you need to read this Lightroom tutorial.īefore you begin, you?ll need to get the LR/Enfuse plugin. But all of those cannot create the same natural HDR results that this donationware plugin can.

There are many HDR software out there and some of the top ones can cost you over $100.
