If you'll forgive the Throw Money At It suggestion: if you have access to Nik's suite, I have found their HDR Efex Pro to be a really good alternative to Ps's built in stuff. You get more controls and the ability to dial the effect way back to subtle levels.
(I'm pretty hooked on the entire suite of Nik tools now and would gladly pay the $149 for it.) On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I dislike HDR for "photography", as I find myself doing more > and more "graphic design" work I often find it useful for > design/illustration purposes. And now it's stopped working properly in > Photoshop CS6. Every time I try it I get a useless, bright, washed-out > look (the same images and settings render fine when processed on my > laptop computer). > > I suppose I could just use my laptop, but I keep it at school most of > the time and it *is* significantly slower than my desktop, so this is > quite infuriating. Here's what I've tried so far: > > Using various pre-sets > Processing HDR in 8, 16 and 32-bit modes > Re-installing Photoshop > Turning off ”Use Graphics Processor” in Photoshop preferences > Swapping out the video card in my computer > > Nothing helps or even changes the problem in any way. I can't find any > references to this issue on the web and I'm stumped. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
