I was working with a nice piece of stock today, nothing horrible, but the lighting was a bit plain, and I was using it for the hero image on the page and wanted something a bit more visually interesting.

I came across this really great tutorial on faking HDR in photoshop, it’s 8 steps, took  minutes, and the result is lovely :3

It’s 8 Easy Steps to Fake an HDR Look in Photoshop by rod rodriguez.

I’m so happy with results I wanted to keep a copy of it here for the next time I want to jazz something up with a little fake HDR 🙂