High Dynamic Range in CS2 - good?

[Ratspants]

Just been reading about the High Dynamic Range features in Photoshop CS2 and I must admit I'm quite excited. Found an article/demo of it here: http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hdr.shtml

I've done some HDR stuff to a limited extent using 3-shot auto-bracketing and some stuff with layer masks but this new feature looks sweet!

Anyone else liking the looks of this/used it/have top tips about HDR?

Cheers,

Ben

[simpo two]

Interesting - it reminds me of auto-stitching panoramas but with each shot superimposed.

I wonder if, while CS2 is grinding the data, it can make small alignment corrections, or must all shots be tripod-mounted?

[beano500]

simpo two said:

I wonder if... ...it can make small alignment corrections, or must all shots be tripod-mounted?

LL suggests that handheld shots, slightly out of alignment CAN be acccomodated....

LL said:

Note the box on the lower left of the window, which when selected will attempt to align the images if they were shot hand-held. Do try and use a tripod whenever possible though.