One of my dirty little secrets is that I’m a photo junkie. I absolutely love reading magazines like Layers (which btw, you can win a copy of here) which are jammed packed with Photoshop tutorials that make it so even the untrained can learn to be a master of Photoshop.  There are even some great Photoshop video tutorial sites out there, so instead of just reading about the methods you can actually watch people put them together.

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One of my favorite techniques at the moment is called HDR (How to add impact with HDR) or high dynamic range imaging. This is a process in which images dynamic lighting is adjusted to make blacks appear much darker while also pushing the lights to an extreme. We see it often in movies such as 300, but more commonly in magazine ads these days.

Now the question really is, how do you do it? That’s what I love about the Internet. If you go to Google and ask how to do HDR in Photoshop, it’ll tell you … which means that any young photographer out there (or Photoshop junkie) is able to do just about anything as long as they have access to Google and Photoshop!

I’d love to see some examples of your own HDR work, so if you’ve got any links please feel free to share.