Photoshop CS5 HDRs

[MattUK]

Has anyone experienced some problems with HDRs in Photoshop?

Most of the time it's fine for me, however, on occasion I'll open a few images into HDR (either manually or through Lightroom). These images will load, it will start the HDR merge process to load them all into a single file, but then just before it brings up the HDR settings adjustment window, the whole lot disappears, and I end up with a blank Photoshop workspace. No error or anything, no crashing or freeze-up.

Anyone else had anything similar?

Thanks

[MattUK]

Guess not!

[Cathus]

sorry Matt, not tried HDR in Photoshop yet

[MattUK]

Not to worry, thanks anyway. Just out of interest, what do you use?

[Cathus]

Photomatix. I also have a couple of plugins for Lightroom that do HDR type stuff but usually return to Photomatix

[mabbutt]

Originally Posted by Cathus

Photomatix. I also have a couple of plugins for Lightroom that do HDR type stuff but usually return to Photomatix

I'm with Cathus on this one and use Photomatix. It is a great little program!

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by MattUK

Has anyone experienced some problems with HDRs in Photoshop?

Most of the time it's fine for me, however, on occasion I'll open a few images into HDR (either manually or through Lightroom). These images will load, it will start the HDR merge process to load them all into a single file, but then just before it brings up the HDR settings adjustment window, the whole lot disappears, and I end up with a blank Photoshop workspace. No error or anything, no crashing or freeze-up.

Anyone else had anything similar?

Thanks

Matt, does this only happen when you have larger files then when it doesn't? I only ask as I had crashes when I created panoramas with more than say 5 files . Advice in this forum suggested I increase virtual memory to 1.5x RAM and on finding out I had Nvidia graphics I was also advised to download any upgrades. It's never happened since doing so (touch wood!) As HDR's always seem similar to panos ( well to me anyway) I thought I'd mention it. I would have done so sooner but never usually get down to the bottom items on the forum!!
Dagwood