How to make my own HDRi skys?

[Tim Shetz]

Hi Lasse –

The best way I’ve found, and the way I have my students do their own is to use HDR Shop:

https://www.hdrshop.com/

You can take RAW images and merge them together in Photoshop, but HDR Shop is the thing I use for converting them to useful images.

Hope that helps.

Tim

[Adam Trachtenberg]

HDR Shop is excellent but no longer free for commercial work if I’m not mistaken. You can do it with just PS and Cinema, however. Run the polar coordinates filter in PS and then run Cinema’s Render>Convert HDR Probe command.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Woops: strike that. PS (at least CS2) does not allow distortion filters on HDRIs.

[Tim Shetz]

That’s what happens when I rely too much on a tool, I don’t branch out. Thanks Adam.

And yes, apparently V2.0 of HDR Shop is no longer free. I’m still using the old version.

[Lasse Ankanpää]

Thanks for your help, i tried the Photoshop way, but it didnt work as i thought it would. First i had this picture pic1.jpg , then i used the polar coordinates pic2.jpg and then i did the HDRI probe in Cinema pic3.jpg. Should i use a certain kind of image before i do the polar coordinates?

Thanks

[Adam Trachtenberg]

In order for polar coordinates, or really any method, to work you will need a 360 degree panoramic image.

[Lasse Ankanpää]

And how will i do that? 😛

Is there a way in Cinema that i can make a panoramic render?