Attached Link: Manual HDR

@Kai...can't say whether it is this prog or that prog that causes it.  I don't use any of them!

I can say that many images I have seen that were obviously HDR'd had a similar glow around the darker objects....

To go about manual HDR....take all your shots, layer them in your image editing program...then mask each one so that you only get the part you want to show through.  Yeah, I know...it's time consuming...but I think it's worth it.

The link is one of mine that I manually HDR'd

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