multiple photos- making sections lighter

[Brian Cluff]

Neither of the examples you posted answer your initial question. You 
wanted to know how to blend layers together with advanced lighting 
techniques where a person lighting the show was often in frame.  The 
method I described accomplishes that.

The examples you gave are for tone-mapping images (fake HDR) which is 
just a way to compress the contrast of the image so that details that 
were in the dark are visible without having the more lit areas be 
completely blown out.

It's a decent method for shooting real estate photos, and I've used it 
myself for quick and dirty shots.  What the guy in the video was doing 
was lighting everything in it's most optimal way, in a way that would be 
impossible to light without having the lights directly in the shot and 
then combining the photos in a way that take the best portions of each 
photo to make one shot that lookes better than reality.

If tonemapping/HDR is what you are looking for, use a piece of software 
called LuminanceHDR.  It's much much easier than using GIMP to do the 
same.  You can even get decent results with a single RAW image out of 
your DSLR camera.

Brian Cluff

On 01/04/2016 06:20 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> here is another good one.
> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blending_Exposures/
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think a better way to do it, Brian!
>     http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP/step10*
>
>
>     On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>     <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>         In gimp you would open up your images as layers and then in
>         the layers window click the little eye next to all of the
>         layers except for the bottom one.  Then one by one, starting
>         at the next to the last one, click the eye on the layer to
>         make it visile again.  Then right click on the image and
>         select "Add Layer Mask".  When the layer mask settings come up
>         select "Black (Full Transparency)" and that will make the
>         layer appear to dissappear.  Then all you have to do is use
>         the airbrush or paint tool (start with the paint tool) to
>         paint white onto the layer mask, using a fussy brush, and that
>         will cause the features of the layer to be airbrushed into the
>         picture.
>
>         Once done with that layer, just repeate with the rest of the
>         layers until your satisfied with your image.  If you want to
>         decrease the amount of the overall effect that any layer
>         applies to your image just adjust the Opacity slider back and
>         forth till you are happy with the results.
>
>         Brian Cluff
>
>
>         On 01/02/2016 11:25 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKyQsnwJMrM
>             go to 18 minutes and 13 seconds-how do  you do it with GIMP?
>             if you don't want to watch to 18 minutes and 13 seconds 
>             here is the set up:
>             He took multiple photo of the exact same scene holding a
>             flash over
>             various sections of his scene to shine light on the area.
>             (he was in the
>             shot) Then he put the photos on different layers.... I
>             think I know....
>             he then removed the pixels from the layer on top which
>             were darker.Is
>             that correct?
>             --
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>             ---------------------------------------------------
>             PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>             PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>             <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>             To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>             http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
>         ---------------------------------------------------
>         PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>         <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>         To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>         http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20160104/e2f76efc/attachment.html>