I’m going to show you some simple steps to give you the idea of HDRI. And to differencing the different exposure picture merge into HDRI before and after for you to compare.

Here are the set of 3 original different exposure picture taken from my friend Sony Alpha 200 DSLR camera (Thanks to Thoh).

Step 1

Go to File > Automate > Merge HDR

Step 2

Click Browse and select the pictures then press OK

Step 3

Adjust the white according your preferable and set to 8 bits. (This is to save it as JPEG format later)

Step 4

Done! You now can save the picture any format you want or start edit the photo with other effect.

This is the simple example what I did add with some effect.

Try this with your photo and see how it looks like.

1. Open the picture you wish edit.

2. Second duplicate the picture.

3. Now you see there are two layers of picture.

4. Select the one at the top layer, move your mouse select image at the tool bar, from the drop down list select “Adjustment”. Again from the drop list select the “Channel Mixer”.

5. The “Channel Mixer” windows will pop out. From there tick the “Monochrome” and use the setting as below.

6. Once finish click ok

7. Then from the layer select the one you just finish with the channel mixer and set it “Overlay”.

8. Now you can merge the layer together and export it.

9. Congratulation you just finish a simple yet nice polarizer effect.

To show how cool is that these are some of the examples I did

Try this with any of your picture, to spice up more you can try with other filtering effect and add with polarizer effect. Use your creativeness. Personally I prefer this effect use on those sky view and open ground nature..

Thanks for reading it. Try it!!! You might like it. Any question drop me a message.