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    Default Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Hi,
    Is there a possibility to make HDR picture with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer ?
    I search about the subject but found no information.
    Am I the first user interrested in that ?

    Thanks.
    Marc.

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Hi
    No you can't make true HDR photos. You can combine the best of several images using Designer to control which areas of differing exposure to emphasise and so enhance photographs in that way but they are not true HDR.
    Derek

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Just something I came up with...
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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Just curious to have a try at it. Here's an all-Xtreme version with three different layers (the right and left clouds have two different brightness/contrast settings applied to them, and those settings are much different than the building settings). Doing this will require more time than I put into it, because the clipview edge takes a little effort to blend correctly.

    BUT. This effect can be achieved in almost any photo manipulation package (including the free Gimp, if I'm not mistaken). And some (like Photoshop) have many more filters than Xtreme, such as color balance. (At least I don't think it's included in 6.0.)

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Akvis HDRF was able to make a psudo HDR running as a plugin. It has a single image mode. I doubt that you could use several images running as a plugin.

    Rich

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    heres my attempt using just Designer. I've replaced the sky.
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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Anybody like to give us uninitiated a few clues on how to do this please? It looks very interesting.
    (I have Design Pro X but barely scratch the surface of it).

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Except for the sky it looks very good Derek. The perspective looks correct too from what I can tell at this small size. I'm glad you didn't take a corner view as your focus point, and I'm glad you replaced the sky. If I might offer a suggestion, it would be a nice touch if you had a slight light to dark gradient of your texture going from left to right and maybe a fairly subtle hot spot like the sun is shining on your feature element as well, which, I assume is the center window (at least that's where my eye always goes). How did you do the perspective, with the mould tool or did you find your vp's and use those? One last point: the gradient of the parking line in the foreground seems backwards, at least to me, because I feel it should go from dark to light just the opposite from what I am seeing here.
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    Sorry Derek, I was off base with my comments, when I saw this post none of the other posts here showed up, only yours, so I thought you had drawn that using Xara.
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

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    Default Re: Xara Photo Graphic Designer and HDR pictures

    No problem Bill, I was suprised to see this thread resurface.
    As regard how to go about it TEEDEE see the attached for a basic attempt. Though this solution depends on the complexity of the foreground object when cutting or erasing the original photo.
    Derek
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