HDR photos with the GIMP

Step 12: Man, that was a lot of text

Paste the bright and dark stock images into the composite as separate layers. After desaturating the stock images, perform an edge detect (Filters -> Edge-detect -> Edge... -> Sobel), then a Gaussian blur to remove the rippliness of the edge-detect (Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur). Use this image as your layer mask as before.

Comments

[pajoohesh]

Perfect tutorial although did not understand the the other way that you described (tone mapping). I tested the procedure on some photos and works perfect.

Thanks

[raudibert]

This is very well done. I will be attempting an HDR process in the next few days using these instructions. If I have problems following the instructions, I'll let you know. Thanks very much!

[DivideByZero]

Right click on the layer in the layers window, make sure edit layer mask is selected, then go into the edit menu, paste into.

[rediculosis]

Your tutorial was perfect. Although my pictures didn't come out as HDR as I thought they would be, I still get the concept. Thanks! :D