There is no Merge to HDR Pro result

I tried to create a HDR photo, selected the input files and PS CS6 Extended did the task. However there was no output file/window.
I have no clue why the output lost. The only thing is I just changed the mainboard & cpu and Adobe asked me for the serial which I entered again.

I can only guess you have some kind of color-management problem on your system, as I just did a test and didn't see any differences between the preview display in the Merge to HDR Pro dialog and the final result.
What color profile are you using for your input images?
Is it the same as your default working profile?
I shouldn't think it would matter what profiles you're using - Photoshop should handle them all properly - but clearly something's causing your saturation to be massively different, which is the kind of thing you might see if a narrow gamut image is being interpreted as though it has a wide gamut color profile (or displayed without color management on a wide gamut monitor).  I do know that HDR processing converts images to your default working profile under some conditions.
Another possibility is that the display of the image in the HDR Pro dialog is misinterpreting (or neglecting to use) the image color profile.
That's a very pretty sunset shot, by the way.
-Noel

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  • Merge to HDR Pro: Result different than preview

    Hi all,
    at the moment I use Photomatix 3 Pro to create HDR images, but since Photoshop CS5 offers this functionality too, I wanted to try it out.
    I selected my three differently exposed images in Mini Bridge and loaded them into Photoshop via "Merge to HDR Pro...". The preview window opened and I could adjust the settings, so far so good. I adjusted the settings until the preview image met my expectations and pressed OK, but the result looked pretty different to the preview image. Especially the saturation was way too high. Converting the photos to JPEG first or using the raw files makes practically no difference.
    I followed a video tutorial, but there the preview and the result matched almost exactly.
    In a different thread I read about a similar problem, but the only solution given there was checking the 32-bit view options. I am using the 8- or 16-bit mode only, so that wasn't helpful for me.
    I hope someone can help me, otherwise I have to stick to Photomatix.
    Two pictures to illustrate my problem (this is the german version of Photoshop, click on the image to see the original size):
    This is how the preview looked right bevore clicking OK:
    And this is how the generated image looked afterwards:

    I can only guess you have some kind of color-management problem on your system, as I just did a test and didn't see any differences between the preview display in the Merge to HDR Pro dialog and the final result.
    What color profile are you using for your input images?
    Is it the same as your default working profile?
    I shouldn't think it would matter what profiles you're using - Photoshop should handle them all properly - but clearly something's causing your saturation to be massively different, which is the kind of thing you might see if a narrow gamut image is being interpreted as though it has a wide gamut color profile (or displayed without color management on a wide gamut monitor).  I do know that HDR processing converts images to your default working profile under some conditions.
    Another possibility is that the display of the image in the HDR Pro dialog is misinterpreting (or neglecting to use) the image color profile.
    That's a very pretty sunset shot, by the way.
    -Noel

  • Merge to HDR pro is producing very washed out results. Resulting images look terrible and bleached.

    I posted here before, but was directed to go through the help menu in Photoshop, which brought me back here!! Please Help Me!
    Merge to HDR pro is producing very "bleached" and overexposed images.
    Thank you,
    Rob

    Thank you for the reply, Ed. I've delved into the PS preferences as best I could but did not see anything related to this issue. I have ACR set to convert at 240 dpi with ProPhoto color space and have never encountered this problem under typical 16 bit conversions from RAW to psd. For some reason PS sets the document size of 32 bit images to 3.5' x 5' @ 72 dpi which results in an extra step to the already time consuming workflow when creating such images in PS.
    Perhaps this is an issue Adobe can address in a future update? They did a good job addressing other issues such as the disappearing RGB data in the info pallette when adjusting images with curves. It appears that the Windows version of PS has too many non-fatal (but annoying) flaws that aren't present in the Mac version.

  • Merge to HDR Pro preview and final result very different

    I'm using CS5 and beginning to use HDR.  When I merge to HDR pro and make adjustments to images the preview window is extremely different from the final image.  I'm merging original camera raw images from a Nikon D200.  Workflow in ACR is set to 16bit.  Output from HDR pro is also 16bit.  I adjust using the preview window, but after final processing the resulting image is grossly different, much more saturated and more vibrant among other differences.
    Any clues about what I'm doing wrong?
    Bob

    After writing my comment here, I found something elsewhere on the forum that suggested that the problem was that color profile of the input files and the workspace in Photoshop are different.  I found that to be true in my case.  The RAW files in Lightroom 4 are probably being converted to TIFFs as they are sent to Merge to HDR Pro.  In any case, they are being sent with the same color profile they had in Lightroom, which in my case is is ProPhoto RGB.  When HDR Pro sends its results to Photoshop, it converts the output to the same color space that Photoshop is set to. I have Photoshop set to sRGB, because that is what most monitors and printers use, and I do my final work in Photoshop.  As a result, I was seeing something quite different in Photoshop than what I say in HDR Pro.  I found two ways to deal with this.  First, set the color profile in Photoshop to be the same as the input files, or Lightroom if that is where they come from.  The second method is to bring the files into Photoshop as TIFFs and convert them to the working color space that Photoshop uses and then from the File menu choose Automate and from the menu that pops up, choose Merge to HDR Pro.  I have had good results using both methods.

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    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:
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    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

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    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.

  • Merge to HDR pro is producing very "bleached" and overexposed images.

    I don't know why this isn't working, but every single time I attempt to use merge to HDR pro, the result is an ugly bleached out photo, and editing in raw does nothing to help. I have tried using TIFFs, Jpegs, RAW files (all at different exposures from very dark to very light, to capture the entire range, usually 5 separate images), but whenever I select File>>Automate>>merge to HDR Pro, and select the files to use, the result is always really horrible.
    Why isn't this working for me? Here's a typical result:
    Please, any suggestions. The reason I bought photosop was for the HDR capability, and compatibility with lightroom. Honestly I get better results just blending images using GIMP, or just processing a single RAW file in Lightroom.
    It will also sometime go through its process of aligning the pictures and thinking for a few minutes, then just leave me with a blank dark gray workspace, without opning the HDR pro window after working with the images.
    Very frustrated. Any suggestions much appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Rob

    First this site for Adobe Product user there are forum and sub topic forum for Adobe suite of applications. Members here are not Adobe employees though some help Adobe employee do drop by.  If you think you have a bug  you can follow the an other Links in Photoshop menu Help>Photoshop Support Center... web page. It will take you to the right place Photoshop Family Customer Community

  • LR3 - Questions regarding virtual copies with different exposures and Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop

    Hello,
    I'm currently testing LR3. I have a master copy and 4 virtual copies with different exposures selected in LR3. I tought to myself that I could simply use the "Edit / In Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop" option and tune the resulting HDR image in Photoshop but it seems that Photoshop doesn't take in consideration the exposure changes I've made on the virtual copies in LR3. The 5 images are identifical in the HDR Pro tool.
    Is there something I can do to about it ? Maybe there is a step I've forgot in my workflow or something ?
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  • How does the "Manually Set EV"dialog box in "Merge to HDR Pro" work?

    What is the  "Manually Set EV"dialog box in "Merge to HDR Pro" for?
    Do these values affect the HDR results?
    Since the source images are chosen in the first dialog of "Merge to HDR Pro"
    why do we need to set EV manually here? 
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    the "Manually Set EV"dialog box has disappeared how can I get it back?
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  • Uncaught Javascript Exception during create file phase of Merge to HDR Pro.

    Provide a descriptive title that includes your OS information:
    I am trying to create an HDR file from several large merged panoramas, and everything seems to go very well whichever options I select until the point comes when photoshop tries to create the final file. The individual layers of the HDR are 40188x6848 and saved as PSB files, when loaded they fill the entire 8Gb of memory in my machine.
    I am using Windows Vista 64, my graphics card is unsupported and so turned off, I have photoshop setup to use 3 scratch disks, and it appears to be using around 40Gb on the first one and none on others.
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    Select File > Automate > Merge to HDR Pro
    Select the 5 HDR layer files, check attempt to automatically align layers
    Make a cup of tea, you're in for a wait.
    Set the EV levels of the files
    Select any options you want from the next panel, I've tried most of them by now.
    Sit back and wait for the following screen:
    Provide a description of the "Expected Result":
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    Provide your System Info from Photoshop:
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    If anyone wants the source images let me know and I'll upload them somewhere, though that process will take a couple of days because they're not small.

    Hi Martin,
    Per my private message, the "uncaught JavaScript" exception is something we've seen and have yet to determine a cause or solution.
    Would you please try the following.
    • Do you have following Preferences > Interface settings ON? If they're OFF, does it work if you turn them on?
       - Open Documents as Tabs
       - Enable Floating Document Window Docking
    • Does Merge to HDR work for you at all with smaller files (such as those in the sample set inside the application folder for CS5)?
    • Do other scripts work for you, specifically...
       - File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack... ?
       - File > Automate > Photomerge...?
    • Have you tried restarting with deleted preferences? http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74aaa.h tml
    The HDR screen image preview going black is a known issue related to low-system memory conditions that we have been working on a solution for.
    In the meantime, the workaround would be to lower Photoshop's memory usage from your current (72%) down to as low as (50%).
    Purging memory may help: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-748aa.h tml
    What was the "entirely new error message"? And is the  Uncaught Exception  the "standard" message?
    Thank,
    Meredith
     

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    - Quit/ Restart Photoshop and Bridge
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    Operating System: Windows 7 32-bit
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    Logical processor count: 8
    Processor speed: 2664 MHz
    Built-in memory: 3582 MB
    Free memory: 1542 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 1665 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 85 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
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    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
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    Display: 1
    Display Bounds:=  top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1080, right: 1920
    Video Card Number: 1
    Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
    OpenCL Unavailable
    Driver Version: 8.17.12.9573
    Driver Date: 20120209000000.000000-000
    Video Card Driver: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
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    Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
    Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
    Serial number: [removed by admin]
    Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\
    Temporary file path: C:\Users\RandG\AppData\Local\Temp\
    Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
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      C:\, 465.8G, 166.0G free
      E:\, 931.5G, 542.6G free
    Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Required\
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       ACE.dll   ACE 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997
       adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2012/01/25-10:04:55   66.1025012   66.1025012
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       AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   6,0,29,0  
       AGM.dll   AGM 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997
       ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,7,0,56  
       aif_core.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ocl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ogl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       amtlib.dll   AMTLib   6.0.0.75 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 16 2012 18:00:00)   1.000000
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       AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
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       BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2012/01/18-15:07:40   66.492997   66.492997
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       boost_system.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
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       ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
       FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo 2012/01/17-15:11:19   66.145433   66.145433
       filter_graph.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       hydra_filters.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       icucnv40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       icudt40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  
       image_compiler.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_flow.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       image_runtime.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.236923   66.236923
       libeay32.dll   The OpenSSL Toolkit   0.9.8g  
       libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)  
       libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   10.0  
       LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1640  
       mediacoreif.dll   DVA Product   6.0.0  
       MPS.dll   MPS 2012/02/03-10:33:13   66.495174   66.495174
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       pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04  
       Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
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       PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
       PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS6   CS6  
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       ScriptUIFlex.dll   ScriptUIFlex 2011/12/14-15:08:46   66.490082   66.490082
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       wu3d.dll   U3D Writer   9.3.0.113  
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       Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0
       ADM 3.11x01
       Angled Strokes 13.0
       Average 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
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       BMP 13.0
       Camera Raw 7.1
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       Conté Crayon 13.0
       Craquelure 13.0
       Crop and Straighten Photos 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
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       Crosshatch 13.0
       Crystallize 13.0
       Cutout 13.0
       Dark Strokes 13.0
       De-Interlace 13.0
       Difference Clouds 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
       Diffuse Glow 13.0
       Displace 13.0
       Dry Brush 13.0
       Eazel Acquire 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
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       Extrude 13.0
       FastCore Routines 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
       Fibers 13.0
       Film Grain 13.0
       Filter Gallery 13.0
       Fresco 13.0
       Glass 13.0
       Glowing Edges 13.0
       Grain 13.0
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       Halftone Pattern 13.0
       HDRMergeUI 13.0
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       Ink Outlines 13.0
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       Liquify 13.0
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       Radial Blur 13.0
       Radiance 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
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       Ripple 13.0
       Rough Pastels 13.0
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       ScriptingSupport 13.0
       Shear 13.0
       Smart Blur 13.0
       Smudge Stick 13.0
       Solarize 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
       Spatter 13.0
       Spherize 13.0
       Sponge 13.0
       Sprayed Strokes 13.0
       Stained Glass 13.0
       Stamp 13.0
       Sumi-e 13.0
       Targa 13.0
       Texturizer 13.0
       Tiles 13.0
       Torn Edges 13.0
       Twirl 13.0
       Underpainting 13.0
       Vanishing Point 13.0
       Variations 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00)
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       Wind 13.0
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       ZigZag 13.0
    Optional and third party plug-ins:
       Portrait Professional 1, 4, 1, 0
       Twain Acquire 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
       Twain Select 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
    Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
    Flash:
       Mini Bridge
       Kuler
    Installed TWAIN devices:
       WIA-Apple iPhone
       EPSON TWAIN 5

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