Now I’m sure by now that more than a few of you have stumbled across what is referred to as an HDR photo on the internet at some point – you’ll know when you see one. The striking, saturated and dreamlike colors make the entire photo pop from the screen – and often times it looks as if the photo was taken in a dream. Normally you’d need a somewhat advanced camera with the ability to take photos in RAW format to cause this effect…
but what do you do for photos that you’ve already taken – and may be in good ol’ jpeg format? You use my tutorial on how to (mostly) fake the effect, of course. Lets begin.