Learn how to use HDR Efex Pro 2 presets
09 Loading presets
So what if you want to load presets someone else has sent you, or which you’ve downloaded from the Internet? You simply click the Imported section in the sidebar and then click the ‘+’ button alongside the panel heading. Now you’re prompted to locate the presets you want to load on your computer.
10 Imported presets
And here are the two presets I selected in the previous step. They include another one I created earlier called ‘Rocky landscape’, and I can apply it to my image simply by clicking on it, just as I would with any of the in-built presets.
11 The finished image
This walkthrough is mostly about presets, but it also demonstrates you can get great HDR effects from just a single image. If you shoot RAW, you may well be able to capture the full tonal range of a scene without resorting to bracketed exposures, and this solves all the problems with misalignment and ghosting that multiple images can produce.
