Aurora HDR Pro Software - Deep Dive

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Aurora HDR Pro combines everything we know about High Dynamic Range photography, and takes it light years further. Not just smarter, faster, more powerful and more feature-rich than other tools, Aurora HDR offers a completely new photo editing experience. Proudly made by award-winning photography software developer Macphun and me, Trey Ratcliff!

My favorite thing is I can finally do everything I need with ONE tool! I no longer need to rely on Lightroom, Photoshop and a variety of plug-ins. All of the images in the gallery below were made solely with Aurora HDR. What are my favorite features?

— Simple adjustable HDR for whatever your pleasure! Also ADVANCED controls for control-freaks!
— LAYERS! Yes, now you can make some areas of your photo more HDR-y or other areas “Glow” more, etc!
Glow – Speaking of glow, we have a cool Image Radiance set of sliders that give my photos that “Fairy Tale Glow” you may have noticed!
— HDR De-Noise! You know how HDR can sometimes cause wacky noise? It’s now gone with these awesome sliders. Just watch that Deep Dive video! :)
— And a TON of features that are listed over at http://www.stuckincustoms.com/aurora-...

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Closed Caption:

I'm Trey Ratcliff standing here under
like cherry blossom trees always loved
these beautiful things that reminds me
of Japan anyway i'm gonna show you how i
use a roar HDR to create really
beautiful images i got there was a house
hello everybody welcome to my cloudy and
clean desktop i clean my desktop just
for you guys so i can show you my
favorite features of Aurora HDR pro
alright so we're gonna work on three
images very quickly write this is just
an obvious bouche if you will
we're going to these three images from
London we're also going to work on a
single file and then we're going to end
with this picture from Venice alright so
let me load up the sweet lady Aurora HDR
pro here now I don't have to load these
in because Aurora ser pro comes with
sample images started click load sample
images here
ok you can see the dark medium and the
bright
alright then i'm going to say create
share book but before I do that let me
show you the before picture
ok this is the before picture alright
this is the middle exposure out of the
three
now let's jam into a roar and see what
happens alright so i simply click create
HDR and watch how fast is byways our
real-time loading images HD are merging
tone mapping this is where the magic
happens
and boom done and actually is probably
practically done
look at it looks amazing let's let's
make full screen here i'll hit F we're
gonna make more adjustments don't you
worry but let's look at the
before-and-after once again and this is
again without clicking a preset without
moving a slider nothing
here's the before the middle exposure
and here's the after
well let's not call it the after cuz
we're still going to work on it some
more alright alright here we let me calm
down a little bit excited to take you
through the tool very briefly here
alright we have lots of other tutorials
and things you can see if you want to do
some in-depth dies but this is a little
bit here so check out all these presets
this is just the architecture category
you don't have to move a single slide or
you can just click around on these
different presets until you find
something that you like there's all
kinds of options there's through extreme
HDR there's realistic HDR
whatever you want there's lots of
different categories of the presets you
can even get my own like Trey's presets
if you get the pro version now over here
on the right side are all your various
tools and we have heaps of them as they
say down here in New Zealand heaps and
heaps and heaps of tools
alright you kind of see me use some of
these tools in these three quick demos
i'm going to do
alright let me jump down here to my
favorite area the structure area this is
really where you get all the HDR bang
for your buck right so you can go really
extreme with HDR look right slide that
way over to the right or you can take it
easy and take away over to the left or
somewhere between you choose your own
HDR adventure if you really want to
happen if you can increase the amount
and increase the boost and then you know
that you can be like super eight ER and
drugs and also people learned that
that's cool that's cool I don't judge
whatever you want to do is awesome so
actually usually I increase the amount a
little bit and then also the softness
little bit seems to take a little bit of
the hard edge off also HDR detail which
is great if you want to give it that
super detailed kind of almost grungy
kinda look sometimes you can soften that
up a little bit soft grunge this all the
tone stuff right this is kind of thing
that normally use lightroom for another
reason you don't need lightroom you can
just just use this tool increase the
highlights mid-tones shadows whatever
you might want to do is the contrast we
have this clever thing here called Smart
tone which is sort of a clever
combination of all of them right
that's pretty cool let's go down and
look at HDR denoise because this thing
is epic
let me zoom into two hundred percent
here see what's happening with the noise
alright let's take it up here into the
sky where we'll be able to see even more
noise see little bits and pieces up here
that's called noise so let's get rid of
so will increase the amount of the Dino
is here and it will smooth it out a
little bit look it's God you can look at
the before-and-after is it that fast
it's unbelievable i think that this is
the fastest denoise problem program I've
ever seen
alright here's how you give it a little
bit of glow
right good to hear image radiant and
increase the amount i'm going to
increase quite a bit and smooth this you
look at the before-and-after see that
kind of fairytale glow i love it
you can also combine that by the way
with this other glow down here this one
is especially effective at night to make
some street lights glow and car lights
glow and sort of thing let me decreases
as a little bit o overdid it their
reckless take it easy easy there cowboy
all these other controls are amazing you
do everything you want to adjust the
color details top and bottom lighting
will do that in the next time of the
tone curves we can decrease some of the
colors like maybe this is a little blue
you might say so we can just decrease
the saturation there the blue take that
take that off a little bit
we've been getting everything alright so
let's look at one more before and after
let's go look at the before so here's
London straight out of the camera before
Aurora and here's London after it's been
authorized which is not an official
offer by the way I look at this church
is every time I look at this photo I see
something new that holy moly
alright let's go the next photo rats i
forgot to show you that it has layers to
you don't even need photoshop you can do
things in multiple layers will save that
for the third photo the Venice photo
right now let's work on a single photo
okay moving right along let's bring this
single photo right here and this is just
to kind of prove that you don't have to
have brackets and take him in for this
to be a very effective programs you know
rework a lot of your older photos and
you bring them a new life you will not
use one of my presets on here you can
kind of see how I moved some of these
things around and obviously you still
get this HDR look from a single photo
which is just pretty radical little bit
of glow on there
alright we stop down for a minute to
talk about this really important part
that I wanted inside or HDR pro in this
area called top and bottom lighting
because many times you want maybe a
different kind of HDR on top you do on
the bottom or vice versa you want more
or less so this allows you to
individually adjust these areas you can
shift the orientation move it up and
down to see where that cross line is you
can adjust the blend area it's extremely
versatile
ok now let's go have some fun in venice
right let's go pull in these business
photos so that i can show you how
layering works alright so just drag them
down here you can drag them in from
Lightroom this lightroom plug-in there's
all kinds of stuff but spring from the
desktop to keep it simple
this was a handheld shot and obviously
this guy's boating around this gondola
so I'm going to turn on alignment and
ghost reduction create HDR alright
fast-forward here I've already made a
few adjustments you can see that
before-and-after before-and-after I want
you to do layer
alright so I'm gonna hit up here plus by
the layers and we call this one a glowy
glow because I want to make it seem like
there's a very warm light coming from
the end of the canal
alright so we're going to amp it up here
really to get this imagery its way up
here the smoothness and maybe a little
bit of brightness or not maybe not let's
increase the warrant a little bit so
it's a warm light coming from down there
alright really blow it up as you can see
it is affected the entire image but I've
got the brush selected now there and now
i can make a little smaller and I was
going to brush in right there right down
that corridor
ok the brushes by default fifty percent
but you can adjust it however you want
two very powerful i'm also going to glow
in the water here a little bit
alright so you can see that sort of my
mask right there but you can see like
that before after before after
let's do one more layer to add attended
details to the building's ok so do plus
here the layer call this one detail
ok let's go down to structure here i'll
do a little bit more HDR look I'm gonna
go serious on the detail right because I
really want to get those buildings nice
and texture
alright and once again i'm going to use
the brush and I'm just going to paint on
the building's ok just where I want that
really nice texture up in here
very nice alright so let's let's zoom in
and look at the texture before-and-after
before-and-after before-and-after
alright totally radical alright so there
you have everybody just made three
pretty cool photos in just a few minutes
it's really easy anybody can do this and
kind of the secret thing is that it's
totally fun
alright so go grab it i hope you love it
if I could ask you for one favor
whenever you create photos and share
them on Instagram or Facebook or Google
or wherever you little hashtag action to
do hashtag Aurora HDR you know everyone
use hashtag nowadays it's 2,000
something i'm not sure of not even
wearing a watch
well thanks again for watching there's a
few options here for you can get the
full brand new tutorial or an hour law
or get the software get both