


Here, we’ve corrected the distortion produced by our wideangle lens and fixed some colour fringing with the ‘Defringe’ slider. You can apply ‘Looks’ and Filters to this layer or Adjustment Layers above it, as we’ll see shortly, but this base layer is the only place you can apply Lens Corrections and Transformations. At the moment we’re working on the base image layer. In this same side panel you’ll see a Layers section at the top. In the panel on the right side of the window you’ll see a list of Filters, and all you need to do here is click on the ‘Reset All’ button at the top.Įven with no Filters applied, you can see how Aurora HDR has improved the tonal balance of the original image – you can use the split screen view to see the difference. When your image first opens in Aurora HDR 2019 it will have a few basic adjustments applied by default, but it’s also possible to see what it looks like with no adjustments at all. So you don’t have to follow this walkthrough right to the end to learn some useful tips on Aurora HDR Looks, Layers, Filters and Masks, but if you stay with us all the way through you’ll get some idea of just what this program is capable of. Aurora HDR 2019 comes with some amazing preset ‘Looks’ which you can apply with a single click, and we use two of them in our walkthrough below.īut it’s also useful to know how these Looks work, how they are actually preset combinations of Filter settings, and how you can modify these and add Adjustment Layers to combine Filters and Looks using masks. You don’t always have to go to these lengths to get great effects. We’re going to take a detailed step-by-step look at Aurora HDR’s Adjustment Layers and masks as we transform a decent but dull-looking shot of an underground crypt into something a whole lot more spectacular.
