Create a HDR like effect using RAW settings only

When shooting my Photo’s I always use RAW for the simple reason that RAW is easily editable. Recently I came across a tutorial from Scott Kelby. He explains how to get a really nice HDR like effect on your photo’s, only by editing your RAW files in Photoshop and / or Lightroom! Bookmark this one, it’s really one of the fastest ways to get this result other then paying for a plugin.

The tutorial in a nutshell, I’ve qouted the simple list from it below:

Recovery = 100

Fill Light = 100

Blacks = Drag this slider to the right until photo looks balanced again, because setting the Fill Light at 100 will wash the photo out big time. In our example, I dragged it to 24

Contrast = 100

Clarity = 100

Vibrance = 100

Saturation = -81 (basically what I do here is drag the saturation all the way to the left, to -100 (which removes all color, making it a black and white image), and then I slowly drag back to the right until some of the color starts to return to the image.

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