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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/04/2016 06:20 AM, Michael Havens
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<div dir="ltr">here is another good one.
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blending_Exposures/"
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Michael
Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">I think a better way to do it, Brian!
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP/step10*"
target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP/step10*</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:00
PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Brian Cluff
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go to 18 minutes and 13 seconds-how do you
do it with GIMP?<br>
if you don't want to watch to 18 minutes and
13 seconds here is the set up:<br>
He took multiple photo of the exact same
scene holding a flash over<br>
various sections of his scene to shine light
on the area. (he was in the<br>
shot) Then he put the photos on different
layers.... I think I know....<br>
he then removed the pixels from the layer on
top which were darker.Is<br>
that correct?<br>
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