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Learn how to use HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

September 19, 2013 by Rod Lawton

09 Loading presets

HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

So what if you want to load presets someone else has sent you, or which you’ve downloaded from the Internet? You simply click the Imported section in the sidebar and then click the ‘+’ button alongside the panel heading. Now you’re prompted to locate the presets you want to load on your computer.

10 Imported presets

HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

And here are the two presets I selected in the previous step. They include another one I created earlier called ‘Rocky landscape’, and I can apply it to my image simply by clicking on it, just as I would with any of the in-built presets.

11 The finished image

HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

This walkthrough is mostly about presets, but it also demonstrates you can get great HDR effects from just a single image. If you shoot RAW, you may well be able to capture the full tonal range of a scene without resorting to bracketed exposures, and this solves all the problems with misalignment and ghosting that multiple images can produce.

See also

More HDR Efex Pro tutorials

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: HDR

Life after Photoshop is owned and run by photographer and journalist Rod Lawton. Rod has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film (obviously) but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor and channel editor, and is now Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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