HDR Merge in Affinity Photo 2

HDR is – or was! – a perennially popular subject for photographers. It’s a way of capturing a very high contrast scene in a way where you can see detail both in the darker parts of the photo and the brightest. This is the third in a series on Affinity Photo 2, and it covers its rather good HDR Merge too.

There are two steps in HDR photography. The first is capturing a series of ‘bracketed’ exposures in order to record the full brightness range in a high-contrast scene, from shadows to highlights. The second is to merge these into a single image with a full range of tones that you can then adjust and edit to produce a dramatic HDR image. That’s the part that Affinity Photo 2 is especially good at, and this tutorial explains how it’s done.