Tone Mapping & HDR Imaging

I am having trouble with learning a few things on PSE 11. I have managed to do my HDR images but I would also like to add tone mapping to single images the forums and tutorial videos only seem to cover these in the professional CS products. surley PSE 11 has this function though can anybody help as I say I know how to create a HDR image but not tone mapping on one single image.

Definitely wasted my money on this poor product. Thanks for all the help folks but think I may just give up on adobe all together and get one of the other editing software programmes. One that will allow me to carry out tone mapping on raw images and offer true hdr. The photomerge/hdr function is good but tone mapping gives better more professional results, so think I will go to another programme.
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:26:13 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Tone Mapping & HDR Imaging
    Re: Tone Mapping & HDR Imaging
    created by R_Kelly in Photoshop Elements - View the full discussion
I don't believe you can add a true hdr plugin to photoshop elements because photoshop elements doesn't handle 32 bits/channel files
in the editor like photoshop cs2-cs6 can.
There are several free hdr programs if you want to try true hdr.
Then you can save the resulting hdr 32 bits/channel file as a tiff and open that file into camera raw from pse 11.
http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/
http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/
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    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Tone Mapping & HDR Imaging
        Re: Tone Mapping & HDR Imaging
        created by R_Kelly in Photoshop Elements - View the full discussion
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