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Exposure Blending

How to blend multiple exposures together in Photoshop the easy way

Jun 8, 2021 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Photographing landscapes is always a popular topic, but it seems to have become even more so over the last year as much of the world has been told to avoid other people and seen events cancelled. And, well, if we can’t point our cameras at other people, what else are we to do if we want to keep shooting and hone our skills?

But landscapes require a number of techniques that we don’t typically see in most other genres of photography. One such technique is that of blending multiple shots together, for various reasons, but often for things like HDR or focus stacking. In this video, Adam Gibbs shows us how we can blend multiple images together in Photoshop.

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Bright skin, dark clothes, how to keep details on both

Feb 5, 2017 by Joseph Parry 9 Comments
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This week, I have a pretty well-known tip for the manual HDR types out there.

Back in the days, landscape photographers used the shadow and highlight sliders in Photoshop to get the more details out of their files. This was kind of like making an HDR image before “HDR” existed.

In time, some started layering files with different “exposures” to bring the maximum detail out of a file.

While this is pretty common knowledge for a lot of adept Photoshop users, it’s not a particularly common technique for portrait photos.

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Blending for composite – two ways to get it right

Aug 25, 2016 by Clinton lofthouse Add Comment
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Before & After – A post processing comparison with Peter Stewart

Apr 5, 2016 by Peter Stewart 1 Comment
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I like to approach my digital photography with a certain sense of the fantastical and the surreal. Many of my architectural and cityscape images feature the use of bracketed multiple exposures, which allow me to retain highlight detail in things like window lights and neon signs when shooting at night, or shadow detail in underexposed areas of the frame I want to call attention to.

The majority of my editing is though Photoshop, with the process starting in Adobe CameraRAW. I’ll take each of my bracketed exposures and make my initial adjustments there to things like color temperature, saturation, highlight/shadow detail and perspective correction.

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.netUdi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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