Lightroom’s HDR Editing Explained – SDR Rendition

This is the fourth tutorial in my Lightroom HDR Editing series, and here we’re looking at the SDR Rendition sliders — what they do, and when they actually matter.

These controls come into play when you’ve edited a photo in HDR, but you’re exporting for SDR viewing. In other words, when you don’t enable HDR Output. That’s the key distinction. These sliders don’t affect your HDR image — they help define how Lightroom maps that extended dynamic range down to a standard display at export time.

Learn more about exporting HDR edited images from Lightroom.

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Scott Davenport

Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.

He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.

https://scottdavenportphoto.com
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