Lightroom fans will be happy to hear that in the future Adobe may add support for high dynamic range photos and panorama stitching to the list of tools in the RAW image editing suite.

The basic concept of HDR is to combine multiple exposures into a single image which contains a much wider range of dark and light tones than you can get with a single exposure. The results range from a closer depiction of how the human eye sees a scene to very surreal, otherworldly images.

At the moment HDR photography requires you to manually shoot multiple images of the same scene at different exposures and then layer them together in Photoshop or similar editing software (as of CS2, Photoshop includes a Merge to HDR tool).

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Samples of HDR photography