How to Create The Most Natural HDR in Lightroom with LR/Enfuse

Using Batch Mode

Do you love shooting HDR? Then you?ll love the batch mode in LR/Enfuse. You can easily process all your HDR bracketed shots into realistic HDR photos.

Step 1

Stack your bracketed images. Select the images, right-click, then go to Stacking, Group into Stack.

Group into Stack

Step 2

If all your photos are stacked, you can try this trick to group all of your stacks. Go to Photo > Stacking > Auto-Stack by Capture Time. Adjust the time setting so that you get the right amount of images. I usually adjust it until it says ?0 unstacked? (assuming all my photos are HDR bracketed shots).

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Step 3

Select all your photos (Ctrl/Cmd+A) then go to File > Plug-in Extras > Blend exposures using LR/Enfuse. In the Output tab, enable Batch Mode. I would also recommend enabling Auto Align in the Auto Align tab if you?re unsure whether all your images are aligned.

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Step 4

Click Enfuse Images and LR/Enfuse will now process all your images and place them inside your stacks. They?ll appear in the top of your stacks automatically.

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Comments

16 responses to “How to Create The Most Natural HDR in Lightroom with LR/Enfuse”

  1. Annkur Avatar
    Annkur

    Hi, I have a query. Lightroom has HDR inbuilt now in lightroom 6.3??? Is LREnfuse is of any use. I encountered a client recently, who is adamant and only wants bracketed images to be edited with lrenfuse only. What to say, such clients?? I am a 5+ year experienced freelancer for video editing, color grading, image editing.

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      In 2021? Not at all. Lightroom’s HDR is already good and maybe better

  2. Eddie Tam Avatar
    Eddie Tam

    Now that Lightroom has HDR built in….. is LREnfuse still useful in 2019?

  3. Ernest McCreight Avatar

    Thanks for the tutorial. At the final stage of the blending I get an error message AGIMPORT Session.addOne Photo to Library: Failed to import photo.

    Any suggestions as ti fix.

    THX

    1. Administrator Avatar
      Administrator

      Sorry, I’ve never seen that message before and can’t seem to find anything online.

  4. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    Does it work as well for interiors? Is there a sample?

  5. Manny Avatar
    Manny

    Great tutorial!! Must try

  6. stanley Avatar
    stanley

    great job on this tut!

  7. dsp Avatar
    dsp

    If you don’t want to pay for it, just go here:
    http://enblend.sourceforge.net/

  8. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    this is great thanks

  9. Rabbit Avatar
    Rabbit

    This tutorial really helped my photos look fantastic! Thank you so much for the easy to follow step by step guide on how to use this sometimes difficult program to use.

  10. sebastian Avatar
    sebastian

    thx u

  11. Michael Brown Avatar
    Michael Brown

    I advise everyone to test the trial first. I couldn’t get mine to work it kept showing this error

    ./LREnfuse.lua:694: attempt to index local ‘handle’ (a nil value)

    1. Violet Avatar
      Violet

      I am having the same problem. Do you know how to fix this?
      I can make it go away by restarting Lightroom but I rather not do that because it happened many times

  12. Rodney Avatar
    Rodney

    Finally some new content… you haven’t updated since LR4 came out

  13. Dina Avatar
    Dina

    The results are splendid!
    How well does it handle ghosts?

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