Photoshop HDR 32bit .tiff Please help

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I was asked to take some pictures of specific things in a church for some sort of brochure. So I opted to do HDRs as the light inside was abysmal.

Problem 1:

Now once I have merged into a 32bit hdr and then tweaked the levels in camera raw I have to save as a .tiff. They want the photos in .jpeg (which as I understand needs to be 16bit or less) So I went to IMAGE > MODE > 16bit, then it brought up another slider box and turned the image orange! (you can see this in the picture, there are two thumbnails of the same thing in mini bridge, one is the jpeg which I got from changing it to 16 bit, the other is the tiff.)

Q: So how would I go about changing the 32bit tiff to a jpeg whilst keeping the image mainly the same (I understand there will be some but didn't think they would be that drastic). Or do I just need to create a 16bit HDR instead of a 32bit. The only reason I did the 32bit is because that is the only way I know how. To be honest I don't really know what the difference is lol.

Problem 2:

When I save as a .tiff then open it in windows photo viewer the image is really dark compared to what I am seeing in photoshop (see picture). I unchecked the adobe rgb and saved as normal rgb because I thought that maintains the correct colour.

Q: Errrrrrrrr what is happening

Thanks for reading :D
 
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Is it just not a case of exporting as a Jpeg
 
Hiya,

Oddly enough I shot my first lot of HDR images yesterday. What I did was import into Lightroom (well, I actually used merge to HDR directly from LR so it appeared in the catalogue after saving in PS), tweaked the image, then exported as jpg. You could also export as TIFF I imagine.

Joe
 
How have you tone-mapped the HDR image back to SDR for storage in a 8 bit JPEG?

If you've just relied on a conversion, an 8 bit JPEG can contain about 11 stops of dynamic range (so less than a DSLR can produce) - so your programme has probably just cropped off the highlights and shadows to fit.
 
First off, normal jpeg is 8 bit not 16. I suspect you can't properly view a 32 bit tiff in windows as it cant display the full range (might be wrong) When you save from camera raw what options do you have set ?
 
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