superimpose image

[Michael Havens]

Thanks for the advice.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Use LuminanceHDR for exposure blending.  GIMP is waaaaaay too much work to
> get just one way to blending the images.  Luminance on the other hard
> offers a tons of different methods and then you can tweak the settings
> within each method.  It's all very easy and gives you much better results.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 01/07/2016 05:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> thank you so much man. I really appreciate it. I certaainly will devote
>> 10% of my available   brain to these videos tomorrow. Do you know of any
>> videos or text teaching how to do exposure blending with gimp2.8? all
>> the tuts  I've been finding are incomplete or are how to do it with 2.2!
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     There's a ton of ways to do what you want.  The biggest thing you
>>     will have to worry about is lighting.  For instance, if you are
>>     putting something that was lit from the left into a scene that was
>>     lit from the right, then there is little you can do. No matter how
>>     carefully you add it to your scene your brain will always tell you
>>     there is something wrong with the picture.
>>
>>     I tend to use a couple of different techniques to put one image into
>>     another.
>>     If the background is a relatively solid color, I'll use a technique
>>     similar to this example for cutting out images while preserving fine
>>     details (hair in this example)... hint, you don't use ANY of the
>>     selection tools, or copy and past.
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0
>>     or
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok
>>     or
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk
>>
>>     The other way I like combine image is brushing out the background
>>     using layer masks as demonstrated in this video with the leg:
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0
>>
>>     I usually use a combination of the 2 techniques since you rarely get
>>     perfect results with either method.
>>
>>     All these methods ultimately use layer masks, which is a much better
>>     way to combine photos than cutting and pasting since you can tweak
>>     what is transparent or not back and both without having to commit to
>>     a certain part of an image like you do with cutting and pasting.
>>
>>     Brian Cluff
>>
>>
>>     On 01/07/2016 02:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>>     I found a way to super impose an image but it looks tacky.
>>>     The method I learned was to open both files and then to select the
>>>     image you want to put on the other with fuzzytool. I found that
>>>     didn't work so I used the path tool. Well I cut the image out but
>>>     the paste doesn't look good. It is out of scale. For the purposes
>>>     I need WHat ithe best way to cut a house out and put it on a blue
>>> sky?
>>>
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