With the October 10, 2023, release of Adobe’s Photography products, HDR Editing and Output is out of beta and now available as a feature across the Lightroom and Camera Raw products. There is a great article about HDR from Eric Chan at the Adobe Blog here: https://www.adobe.com/go/hdr_explained This thread will be locked now but left in place for future reference. Thank you to all who participated in the testing and evolution of this feature during its beta. Update (12.13.2022) the Beta feature (formerly Mac-only) is now available in Mac and Windows. Camera Raw 15 15.1 introduces High Dynamic Range Output: the ability to view and edit HDR photos on compatible HDR displays the ability to save HDR photos to disk and open them in Photoshop the addition of (read) AVIF/JXL format files Photos optimized for HDR displays have brighter highlights and more detailed shadows, resulting in an increased sense of realism and greater impact. You can enable the HDR Display feature in the Technology Previews of the Camera Raw Preferences. High Dynamic Range Output is currently a Technology Preview feature on macOS. Please provide feedback on this feature in this forum thread.Please see: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/hdr-output.html for more information.

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P: Beta Feature HDR Output Feedback Thread (Released)

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October 18, 2022
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With the October 10, 2023, release of Adobe’s Photography products, HDR Editing and Output is out of beta and now available as a feature across the Lightroom and Camera Raw products.

There is a great article about HDR from Eric Chan at the Adobe Blog here: https://www.adobe.com/go/hdr_explained

This thread will be locked now but left in place for future reference. Thank you to all who participated in the testing and evolution of this feature during its beta.

~~Update (12.13.2022) the Beta feature (formerly Mac-only) is now available in Mac and Windows.~~

~~Camera Raw 15 15.1 introduces High Dynamic Range Output:~~

the ability to view and edit HDR photos on compatible HDR displays
the ability to save HDR photos to disk and open them in Photoshop
the addition of (read) AVIF/JXL format files

Photos optimized for HDR displays have brighter highlights and more detailed shadows, resulting in an increased sense of realism and greater impact.

You can enable the HDR Display feature in the Technology Previews of the Camera Raw Preferences.

High Dynamic Range Output is currently a Technology Preview feature on macOS. Please provide feedback on this feature in this forum thread.

Please see: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/hdr-output.html for more information.

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Marwood_Abroad

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Are you considering any other output options, given Google has announced it's dropping JPEG XL support from Chrome?

Marwood_Abroad

Participant

Putting the 'Visualise HDR' option in the 'Basic' tab means it's difficult to access while you're using the curves tab (which is arguably the most valuable tool to start your HDR edit, given you only really have Whites and Highlights for controlling the entire >SDR tonal range.

Also, you probably need to re-calibrate what's considered Highlights, Midtones and Darks in the Color Grading tab, when in HDR mode: they are pinned to the SDR values, so don't appear to work on anything brighter.

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gux215

Participant

I understand it's still in tech preview but there's no way to display the image correctly outside the Camera Raw preview window. After trying too many rounds, the only way to generate correct luminance is open the image in PS then save as Radiance .HDR format. However it shows a stong green tint. I believe it's a color profile issue(might be related to Rec.2020) but photoshop doesn't allow me to choose one when saving. Is it related to my monitor(14'' MBP) which is P3 gamut?

All the export options such as 16bit PNG/TIF are washed out. I can't view JPEG-XL in Google Chrome and Google is going to deprecate the format so I guess Adobe will remove that soon. When will exporting 10bit HEIC become an option? That could be the only format which can be displayed correctly on every HDR compatible devices.

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JtheNinja

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Export an AVIF from the Camera Raw window. It should have the same functionality as JPEG XL, except Google isn't in the process of killing support for it. It also works in Chrome out of the box, without enabling special flags. HDR AVIF is currently broken in the built-in apps in both macOS/iOS and Windows though. Both ostensibly support it, but neither displays it correctly

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colind66897557

Known Participant

Google Photos supports AVIF but hasn't enabled support for the HDR expanded colour spaces and tone mapping is still pretty iffy. The same applies to animated AVIF. Rec709 is supported when encoded into AV1 but not REC 2020 unfortunatley

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Steve Oswald

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Does anyone know when the HDRO button will be added for Windows 10 operating system.

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JtheNinja

Known Participant

They have not announced anything beyond saying in the docs that they're working on it:

"We are actively working on several areas, including support for Windows, and Lightroom, user interface improvements"

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michael50B8

Participant

So tired of the horrible handling of highlights in Lightroom and the huge difference between ACR and Lightroom for masking, among so many other things. We pay a subscription price, we deserve better, I kinda get the feeling adobe people [abuse removed] know just how big of a pain it is for us to leave. Luminar, Topaz, Capture One, DxO.., are all making great strides and very shortly it will be worth my time to seriously consider leaving adobe completely. If they EVER figure out it is in their best interest to work together seemlessly, Adobe will be in serious trouble. The only real advantage is the Lightroom catalog, everything else is just a matter of process, which they seem to be 98% equal to for the overwhelming vast majority of functions and seriously better in many cases. Denoise, HDR, Panorama, Highlights, AI, Stock Sky replacement options, camera/lens specific profiles that make a very noticable difference.., My subscription seems to be worth less all the time.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I came across that information from watching this video a couple of days ago, but I don't know why it is a Mac only feature and when that might change. @Pete.Green Do you have any information on this?

Rick.Williams

Known Participant

I played with it a bit. Very cool, and seems to work well. I cranked the exposure and highlights on a white boat I had a photo of. It was blindly bright, I'd hate to open that image in the dark, 🤣 Gonna be fun to play with.
Cant wait until Lightroom gets it.