HDR Pro ghost removal
In my version of Photoshop (CS5) when I merge three RAW photos to HDR Pro I am not given the command "remove ghosts". What am I doing wrong?
Rick
I'm not at my home computer right now, but unless I'm mistaken, the option to remove ghosts is a
t the top edge of the HDR dialog. It's a tick mark. If selected, you can indicate the individual photo that is used for the ghosted areas.
Regards, Antero
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Auto-align Layers and Merge to HDR Pro crashes
Hi,
Has anybody else experienced crashes with Merge to HDR Pro or Auto-align Layers? I was trying to use Merge to HDR Pro from Lightroom and was experiencing crashes every time after it had opened all of the images and merged them into a single document (but before the HDR Pro dialog box had come up).
I've tested this further with opening each image individually and then trying to merge them as well as via Bridge and always get the same result.
I had then decided to try layering the images and blend them to create my HDR image and that's when I found that Auto-align Layers was crashing as well. This leads me to believe that it's actually the auto-align functionality that's causing the crash rather than Merge to HDR Pro as I'm pretty sure that the merge functionality performs an auto-align as part of its steps.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm wondering if I may have to completely remove Photoshop. I can do this if necessary but if there's some other way to fix this I'd rather try that first.Okay, solved my own problem. I bit the bullet and did do a reinstall. I'd remembered that one of the previous Photoshop upgrades had failed (either 12.0.1 or 12.0.2) and I'd never gotten around to fixing it. Looking into that suggested reinstalling as the solution so I figured I should try uninstalling and reinstalling then apply all the upgrades and then try it again.
This time the upgrades did go through properly and I was just able to do a merge to HDR pro successfully so it looks like that's fixed the issue. -
Merge to HDR Pro Cs5, results in completely black image.
Whenever i merge from wither Lightroom or even within CS5 itself, the resulting image is more often than not a 32 bit image which displays as a pure black image. This happens even when i choose 8 bit or 16 bit from within the HDR dialogue box.
I can choose to remove the 32 bit preview options from the edit menu, and the image will emerge but with no HDR toning. If i try to convert from 32 bit to 8 or 16, i get teh HDR Toning dialogue box but then immediately get the 'not enough RAM' error message.
any help would be appreciated.I can't really help, but I can tell you that I am having similar weird behavior using HDR Pro. I posted several messages here, but with no replies. What happens to me is varied. Sometimes CS5 aligns the images being merged, and sometimes not (using the same images). I also have the same issue of getting a completely black screen when trying to convert to 16 bit. The workaround for me is to close and reopen PS. If I do this the conversion will generally work, but only once. So when doing HDR I have to close and open PS between each HDR session.
What I notice in both these cases is that there seem to be two steps in the process. In the original merge there is process of making layers and processing each of the images to be merged individually. After that the alignment process begins, with marquees, transforms, crops, etc. In the 16 bit conversion there if first the process of getting to 32-bit options, and then there is a progress bar, which has to complete before the final conversion to a lower bit depth.
My supposition (and mere supposition it is) is that there is some kind of memory issue here, but that it is not well handled by the program. In CS4 when merging more than three frames, I often encountered out-of-memory errors, which could usually be fixed by changing performance parameters (especially reducing the number of history states). But at least in CS4 there was a clear indication of OOM problems, and that doesn't seem to be the case here.
I am going to be trying changing various performance parameters, such as memory states, cache levels and tile sizes, and if and when I find anything out I will post results. So far the only thing I have found is that when I am having alignment problems, it is better to open HDR Pro directly in CS5, rather than from Bridge. I don't know why.
Toby -
I am using LR4 and edit/merge to HDR Pro in CS5. The images appear in CS5 as the processing is going on but then it just terminates and the images disappear from CS5. This is happening on multiple sets of images not just one set. I don't know if this is part of the problem but I also get a message as the process is starting on LR that I may need Camera Raw Version 7 but I can't find that anywhere. Any idea what's going on?
ThanksHi Bill,
Answers to your questions beow ...
The one thing that I did not see was your HDD setup, and especially how you have your HDD's allocated, with such things as Scratch Disks, etc. That might be useful knowledge.
- Just use a single 1TB hard disk, 516GB used and 398GB free.
With Win7-64, the 8GB RAM is a bit light, as Win7-64 is a RAM hog, and Scratch Disks will most likely come into play, and especially with HDR.
- Can't do much about that as 8GB is the MAX on the motherboard. But again don't have any problems in any other areas and if I do Tone Mapping from the Image -> Adjustments -> HDR Tone Mapping ... menu there aren't any issues.
Now, if you do NOT switch out of PS, while doing an HDR Merge, does it then complete, i.e. is it only when it loses focus, that it hangs?
- Yes, as long as I don't switch out at all.
What are your PS Memory and Cache settings?
- Available RAM 7230, Let Photoshop Use: 4338 (60%) (This is the default setting Photoshop chose)
- Cache Settings, again default: Cache Levels: 4, Cache Tile Size: 1024K.
Do you have any active-scanning anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-anything running?
- Yes, Microsoft Security Essentials
Is Windows Indexing ON - though with Win7-64, it has become much less of a problem, than with older OS's?
- Yes Indexing is on, makes no difference if I turn it off.
What are the Image Size of the HDR Images?
- As they are from Canon 5D Mk II (ProPhoto RBG, 16 bit, 5616 x 3744 (~21MP) and 300 bit/in) they will open anywhere up to 120MB in TIFF or PSD.
I am not sure but it seems a little similar to the issue with the CA sliders in LR4 Beta when we reverted back to Process 2010 after upgrading to PV2012 unless there is a memory leak somewhere. Again if I use NIK Software HDR Efex pro I don't seem to have any of these issue - (just aligment and ghosting ).
Obviously I have a work around by simply not leaving the HDR Merge window before completing the process, just inconvenient.
Regards, Don -
CS5 problem: Merge to HDR Pro & Incorrect EV values
Hi,
I'm trying to use the HDR Pro option on Photoshop but have yet to find a way to circumvent an issue I'm having.
The game Gran Turismo 5 on the Playstaiton 3 has a photo mode and allows you to edit camera settings within the game and then export your image. Upon opening the images with Photoshop a message appears informing you the file's Photoshop data may be corrupt. You can choose to ignore this and the image will display as normal.
The real problem occurs when taking photos with different exposure settings and then trying to use the "Merge to HDR Pro" option. For whatever reason, the values embedded in the files are incorrect. I took three photos, the high level photo had an exposure value of -3.0 when viewed in HDR Pro which is obviously wrong, and the normal and low level photos both had a value of 0.0. Obviously these muddled up values cause the whole HDR process to go horrible wrong, as seen here:
http://i53.tinypic.com/euh7ra.jpg
The Photoshop support pages inform me that for files with missing EV values, I can set them manually, however there is no such option for files with incorrect values. Is there any way I can alter the settings manually? Either through Photoshop or editing the files elsewhere?
Thanks for any help.It sounds like the game is writing incorrect EXIF data.
You'll have to edit or remove the EXIF data that provides the camera settings.
If the EXIF data is removed, then Photoshop won't find the metadata, and will prompt you for the values.
And if you put the correct values in the EXIF metadata, then it will just work... -
Edits in NIk HDR Pro not saved
I have the plugins for Nik HDR Pro in my Lightroom 4 on my Mac (OS X 10.6). When I save the file with the changes and return to Lightoom, the changes I made are not there. I have had the same problem with a filter on my Olympus E5 which emulates an HDR effect - the effects are not visible when downloaded to Lightroom. Any ideas? ( I have use the Oly filters before in LR3 with no problem). Thanks
i imported from LR and made a Nik hdr. when i did a save it prompted me to a new LR folder two levels down from where the files came from. when i looked in LR it showed all the files from the origin folder in the sub folders as well. deleting files there removed them from LR in the original folder as well! I had to select grid and move everything back to the original folder before i could delete the annoying subfolders. Thats why i'm looking for a fix now lol.
I saved the file to the origin folder and it made the sub folders anyway. I had to sync the origin folder before the hdr showed up as part of LR. -
In LR5 i do: Merge to HDR Pro. After I apply my preset and PS attempts to convert HDR file, I get an error message from PS: "Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 has stopped working". Then PS Closes.
My source files are 5 NEF files of 28 MB. I select 16-bit, I also tried 8-bit. No difference. Same error message.
I have a Toshiba Quosmio X870 with Intel i7 3610QM @ 2,30 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Windows 7x64 HP SP 1, 7,3 Performance Index
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