Merge to HDR Pro from Lightroom

I am having trouble with Merge to HDR Pro from Lightroom to Photoshop CC. I can no longer get the exterior scenery to show clearly in the finished picture that I am adjusting in Lightroom. I cannot get the highlights adjusted low enough. Should I not let Photoshop autotone the image before I save it?

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.

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Merge to HDR Pro from Lightroom changing image resolution

Image resolution in PS from a RAW LR transfer is 300ppi but I notice today the final HDR image from a LR transfer of three files is 240ppi. My preference in PS is set to 300ppi and I don't find a way to set a HDR resolution preference. I want my final HDR image to be 300ppi - how do I get this?

Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?
Have you tried both reducing and increasing the Memory Usage in the Performance Prefences?
I tried to work on the exposition of the three photos, but that didn't work.
What does this mean?
Are you using actual bracketed shots?

Merge to HDR Pro from LR5. After applying preset and during conversion of file, Iget an error message "Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 has stopped working" and closing PS

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
Any suggestions?

As the crash report says - your outdated video card driver is crashing. You need to update your video card driver from the GPU maker's website (AMD/ATI in this case).

Merge to HDR Pro from LR4

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?
Thanks

Hi 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

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.

Workflow HDRI Pro from Lightroom Question

Hi,
to combine several images from Lightroom to the new HDR Pro feature in PS CS5 you can use 'Edit in/Merge to HDR Pro' in Lightroom. This will load the images in PS and starts the HDR Pro dialog. My question is: Does this workflow offer the possibility to align the images automatically?
My shots are often made free hand so they have to be aligned in software. How can I merge these shots in Photoshop to HDR Pro *with auto aligning them* ? Load them in PS each shot in a single layer, align, crop, save each layer as an image and load these images in the HDR Pro workflow? There must be an easier way...
Thanks
Gerald

Unless the program you Move To, from Lightroom, can Read the edits placed in XMP files created by Lightroom (Or those edits written to the actual RAW file by Lightroom) all that work will be lost.
Adjustments made in one Raw file editor can't be read by some other Raw file editor. They all use different systems to make those adjustments.
What you could do is once you make all the edits you want on any Raw image file Export it to a TIFF file as a Master and never change that Master file. If you need to edit that Master or Raw file make a Copy of it first or once opened in a program like Photoshop select Save As and save it with a different name so the Master file is left as it came out of Lightroom.

Color change after merging to HDR Pro, going back into Lightroom

I recently updated Lightroom and now when I "merge to HDR Pro in PS" the photo then comes back into lightroom with highly elevated contrast. I have set the color options to ProPhotoRGB in Lightroom and Photoshop. and the image looks fine when going from LR to PS, and it looks fine in "preview" after saving the image as a TIFF. But once that TIFF gets imported back into LR it has all those weird color changes. I'm not sure what to do, and I never had this problem until I recently updated photoshop and lightroom. Any help you would be appreciated. thanks!

The image will look different in PS than in LR. PS uses the embedded preview and LR uses the actual 32 bit image data. You need to apply the LR Develop module Basic panel Tone settings to the 32 bit HDR TIFF.

Merge to HDR Pro works from Photoshop CS5, not from Bridge

I have three nef files which I want to merge to hdr pro. If i have them open in PS CS5 and choose to merge them from there, all works. But if I choose the three in Bridge and use the Tools, Photoshop, Merge to HDR Pro selection from Bridge, all starts out well, but in the end, no HDR dialog box, just the 4 layers, one for each file and the lowest one the HDR layer, but nothing can be done with it since there is no dialog box. Any suggestions? Thanks

As far as I know the Abobe Bridge bridge is messed up these days for there is one Adobe bridge cc and two Photoshop CC and CC 2014 Mac can run two versions of Photoshop at once windows can not how the different bridge interfaces work I don't know. Bridge tools are set up with Bridge Startup Scripts. On Windows Bridge CC 64bit and Bridge CC 32Bit version both seen to use the start up scripts setup for the 32bit Bridge Bridge CC 64bit does not see what is in the CC 64Bits startup scripts folder. There are also problems on windows system registry for Photoshop shell commands Open and Edit. I do not use the Bridge often. Just use it to edit metadata and syncing batches of RAW File setting. I do not use Photoshop from the Bridge. But seem to be able to For I put Startup scripts in the 32bit location and fixed my windows registry keys for Phoroshop.exe....

Merge to HDR Pro does not work on Nikon D800 RAW (NEF) files

Hi,
I can't get Merge to HDR Pro to work on NEF RAW files from my Nikon D800 - nothing happens after after confirming the file selection. However, it works ok if I convert those files to DNG (using Lightroom 4), and if I use the D800's JPGs, and if I use Nikon D7000 NEFs. It just seems to be a problem with Nikon D800 NEFs.
Steps taken:
1. File -> Automate -> Merge to HDR Pro
2. Browse... and select NEF files (even selecting 2 files does not work).
3. Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images is checked. Then press OK.
Expected result:
Progress cursor spins as files are loaded and HDR dialog appears.
Actual result:
Nothing happens - no progress cursor or CPU or disk activity - it is as if I had clicked cancel instead of ok.
This is a clean install of the 64 bit CS6 beta on Windows 7 64 bit, with no plugins, and I reset preferences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift on startup). I do have my existing CS5 Extended still installed, as well as Lightroom 3.6 and 4.0.
I can send you the NEFs if you like.
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Hi,
The Ps CS6 public beta version contains the same camera support as found in Ps CS5/5.5 compatible CR 6.6. There will be future updates to CR 7 for Ps CS6 to pick up more camera support. The Nikon D800 NEF files are not supported, yet.
If you like to work with your D800 files in the public beta build now, you'll have to get the DNG Converter 6.7 from here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cameraraw6-7/
and convert your files to DNG.
regards,
steve

Merge to HDR Pro - how to make it work?

The 'Automate -> Merge to HDR' feature worked fine during the first few weeks of my Ps CS5 trial but now doesn't work. Photoshop gets through the Merge to HDR Pro dialog but throws the attached error when returning to Ps.
If Merge to HDR Pro is chosen on DNG images from Lightroom 2.7 or Bridge CS5, Photoshop again gets through the Merge to HDR Pro dialog but when creating the HDR image and returning to Ps seems to throw it away with no resulting error. Photoshop just stares blankly with no image open.
I experienced the same error with CS4 and was excited when the Merge to HDR Pro feature on my CS5 trial worked fine, yet with 5 days left in the trial the HDR feature now refuses to cooperate. It previously was working OK from the Automate menu, from Lr 2.7, and from Bridge. What exactly I did to upset Photohop is a mystery.
I've tried resetting preferences and removing all plugins and extenstions to no avail. Any ideas on how to make Merge to HDR Pro functional?

There has been a long and continuous thread regarding CS5 having problems when one tries to save images that have been combined in Merge to HDR Pro. I have exactly the same problem. I have been shooting 3 images bracketed -1, 0, +1 or -2, 0, +2. When I select 3 images in Bridge. Go to Tools>Ph otoshop>Merge to HDR Pro the computer does its work and produces an image of a combination of the 3. I can see the image, and in the Layers Panel I see 3 Layers plus one Layer that is entitled Merge to HDR Pro(layer is devoid of image. When I try to Save As Photoshop freezes up. I have 11 Screenshots to illustrate. Also Select 3 in BridgeI have tried many different sets of images. Screenshots:Select 3 images in Bridge CS5Go to Tools>Photoshop>Merge to HDR ProSave as 32 bit image; have tried 16 bit and 8 bit too- still freezes at endSave as BEF 32 bitSaving -Computer is Processing32 bit image saved on screenSave as bef to proper locationPutting in File TitleSelecting 1PHOTOSHOP FROZEN- anything I click on no responsePhotoshop Running but not responding- Frozen; Task Manager says all running here, but no responseHave to end process with task manager. Thanks, Sam

Setting a fixed and consistent exposure level with merge to HDR Pro?

I do panoramas with sets of bracketed HDR images. From LR I select my stack and then merge to HDR pro in CC. CC then produces a screen with a white point preview slider or the option to tone in ACR. Since I want to tone in LR I have tried to set the white point consistently for each HDR output in the panorama set, but I cannot get consistent exposure levels. I then try to adjust them all the same in LR, but sometimes differences result in undesirable effects in the panorama stitched output.
How can I get a 32bit HDR from PS CC back to LR and have each stack come back in with exactly the same exposure without me trying to guess with a slider?
I task all the images for the panorama with identical settings. Same brackets, fstop , shutter speed, ISO, etc. I should be able to get them all processed into 32bit HDRs and looking the same without manual adjustment guesses.
Thanks.

I'll tell you my workflow for panoramas such as this. Starting from bracketed stacks of images.
1. I select all images, go into Develop and turn on auto-sync. Turn on "Remove Chromatic Aberration". Do not turn on "Enable Profile Corrections". Set a custom white balance to make sure all images are WB'ed the same and optimize sharpening and noise reduction. Basically you want all images to be developed exactly the same and fairly conservative at that.
2. Export all images to 16-bit tiff in prophotoRGB or adobeRGB (depending on how colorful they are)
3. At this point one can add a logo to the nadir shot or do it at the end using the workflow I described above.
4. Load all images into hugin. Generate control points. Optimize positions - first just positions, then positions and view. Level the panorama in the GL preview and make sure the projection is set to equirectangular and the view to 360x180, then optimize view, barrel and positions and finally "everything without translation". During all these steps remove errant control points by going into the control point list and deleting the ones with the largest deviation, which are usually bad control points on clouds or other moving things. Also make sure the pano stays correctly leveled.
5. Mask the tripod out of the images that have it in them using the mask tools in hugin. Mask feet and stuff out of the nadir shot.
6. Do a photometric optimization with high dynamic range, fixed exposure.
7. Go to stitcher, set the optimum canvas size, uncheck "exposure corrected, low dynamic range", Check A. "exposure fused from any arrangement", B. "High dynamic range->tiff", or C. "blended layers of similar exposure, without exposure correction" depending on what you want to do.
8. Stitch
If you did A. You will get a tone mapped image that you can work up further in Lightroom or Photoshop. That image will be tone mapped respecting the wraparound on all sides so it won't have weird seams in a spherical projection. If you did B. you get a 32-bit tiff that will work great in Lightroom and as long as you don't use highlights, shadows, clarity and such will remain good. If you did C. you can load the multiple panorama layers you get into a HDR Pro in Photoshop, and load that into Lightroom.

Merge to HDR Pro suddenly stopped working

I've notice that this seems to be a problem, but nowhere have I seen an answer that resolved it, so I thought it is worth posting again. Merge to HDR Pro is why I pay for Adobe CC and if it can't be made to work reliably, I'll stop paying!
Here is what happens:
3-5 images selected in Photoshop Lightroom
"Edit In" ==> "Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop" selected
Photoshop opens and opens the images in separate layers
Photoshop goes through the alignment process
Photoshop clears out all the data and returns to an empty state (rather than opening the Merge to HDR dialogue page).
Now I have had it working perfectly for months, all of a sudden yesterday, in the middle of a session it stopped working.
If I use Photoshop to File | Automate | Merge to HDR Pro, same process happens - does everthing except the critical step of taking you into the HDR window.
I'm using Windows 7 with an Intel i7 processor and 8GB memory, most allowed by Photoshop. Nothing changed to cause the problem.
Adobe - need this resolved urgently please. Thanks.

I have also encountered this problem today working with a batch of .NEF files, using File > Automate > Merge to HDR in CC 2014. Same problem running from the Bridge > Tools menu. I suspected an issue with scene complexity for alignment until I checked this post.
The first merge processed fine. A subsequent one failed at the point of aligning the source Layers and did not pass to the Tone Mapping dialog. Re-trying the original batch then also failed - Huh ?
I tried an archive set of brackets and they worked OK. I also converted the .NEFs > .PSDs and that worked OK.
I would be interested if the O/P or yourself would try a merge from the following :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4333045/NEFs.zip
Thanks

Merge to HDR Pro???

Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5. In Lightroom choose "Edit in" and "Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop". Select 32 bit in HDR Pro and selection available is "Tone in ACR". When selected the image is presented in Camera Raw. The only choices afterward are "Cancel" or "Okay". Return to Photoshop is blank desktop and no toolbars and no image. If you select "Save" the invisible HDR image is saved back to Lightroom but the photoshop desktop is not useable and you must quit Photoshop and re-launch. Previous Photoshop CS6 round trip with this function worked just fine.

Thanks for your response.
I actually figured it out.
Thing is, I have been working with LR since it started along with PSE from about v4 but never worked with Photoshop until I joined the CC.So when I right clicked a file or files and chose 'edit in', I only saw PSE or Topaz as options. I never had a choice of 'merge to HDR pro in Photoshop'. So, what I did wrong was to send three photos to 'edit in Photoshop' and then did the merge to HDR. When finished I clicked the 'x' on each file name and they closed and went away. The three that came from LR, went back to LR. The HDR went to my last open file on my 'C' drive. Even though I found the file, I couldn't import it into LR. But that's another issue.
I got the hint from a Linda Kost (is that right name) tutorial on HDR processing. She showed how to work from 'Bridge' which showed the 'edit in merge to HDR' command. She worked with a Mac, I work on a PC and so I looked for it in LR thinking it might be there as in Bridge. And it was. Would have saved me some time if she also referened the PC workflow also.
Thanks again for responding.

Merge to HDR Pro asking (incorrectly?) to manually set EV

Hi,
I've got a large number of HDRI brackets for a time-lapse sequence, and while using Merge to HDR Pro in CC, some are merging to HDR automatically, while other bracket sets result in Photoshop asking me to manually set EV.
All of my images are TIFs, all have gone through an identical process of saving to TIF from Lightroom after being worked on with Lightroom and LRTimelapse, so one of these two programs could potentially be having an effect.
Normally I would assume that being asked to manually set EV means that metadata doesn't exist, however metadata appears to exist identically for both the brackets that work automatically, and also for those that don't. I've used my PLE version of Nuke to do a compare metadata, and all that changes is the shutter speeds as you'd expect for HDR, I can't see anything odd going on. Here's a single downsized tif bracket so you can check it yourself if you like: http://www.hyperfocaldesign.com/images/tifbracket.tif
What can I look at to try and determine the problem? What other causes might there be for images not automatically merging?
Thanks for any assistance,
Regards,
Jay

I have had that happen, but not for a long time, and I think it was Photomatix anyway. I'm pretty sure I'd exported TIFFs from Photoshop, but I can't remember how the EXIF was lost. As far as using three versions of the same exposure, from a high dynamic range point of view, that became increasingly irrelevant as ACR got better and better. You could still get a ‘look’ using apps like Photomatix on a single exposure, but I suspect even that has been superseded by all the Topaz and Nik type plugins available nowadays.
This is just about the last time I used an HDR app on a single exposure, and it was taken getting on seven years ago (blimey I feel old) !! Incidentally, it was very noisy, and there are a many hours worth of hand painting in it. I still like the picture though, and have it on a canvas print on the wall behind my monitors.

CS6 Problem - Merge to HDR Pro - "Remove ghosts" Process 2012 ACR7

Hello! I found a problem when creating images HDR of RAW
When using the "Remove ghosts" - the problem is distortion image, clipping highlight and shadows.
File>Automate>Merge to HDR Pro>Sourse files>Browse>OK>Merge to HDR Pro>Mode: 32-16-8 Bit>Remove ghosts - Problem!!!
This is a problem only in the 2012 process ACR7, the process 2010 ACR7 there are no problems.
My system - Win 7 SP1, x64 version CS6.
Sample images:
1. No "Remove ghosts"
   - Process 2012 ACR7. No problem, it's good
- Process 2010 ACR7. No problem, it's good
2. EV +2. "Remove ghosts".
     - Process 2012 ACR7. Problem - distortion image and clipping highlight.
   - Process 2010 ACR7. No problem, it's good
3. EV 0. "Remove ghosts".
   - Process 2012 ACR7.
- Process 2010 ACR7. No problem, it's good
4. EV -2. "Remove ghosts"
- Process 2012 ACR7. Problem - distortion image and clipping shadows
    - Process 2010 ACR7. No problem, it's good

I am having a similar problem with Merge to HDR from Lightroom 4 to CS6.
First of all, here is the dark exposure processed entirely in Lightroom. As you can see there is good shadow detail and no blown highlights:
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Now here is the image using the darkest and lightest (of 3 exposures) manually blended. Here the shadow detail is naturally better (although it isn't obvious on the small image shown here):
Now here is the image from HDR Pro with remove ghosts on the darkest of the 3 images. As you can see there is very bad (practically no) shadow detail (look at the hillside on the left):
Here is the HDR Pro with remove ghosts on the middle of the 3 images. As you can see the clouds are badly blown/posterised:
And here is the HDR Pro with remove ghosts on the most over-exposed image. As you can see the sky is completely messed up:
Essentially unusable for this sort of image. Hope this gets fixed soon!!

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