<div dir="ltr">I was wondering... would using software to over/under expose an image be the same as taking 3 images which have been physically altered? Less wear and tear on the camera is good! <div><br></div><div>Also, I was watching a tutorial on luminance hdr and in his version the software had a bunch of variation of an hdr which could be modified. My version doesn't seem to have that. Is there a setting?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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On 01/07/2016 05:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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thank you so much man. I really appreciate it. I certaainly will devote<br>
10% of my available brain to these videos tomorrow. Do you know of any<br>
videos or text teaching how to do exposure blending with gimp2.8? all<br>
the tuts I've been finding are incomplete or are how to do it with 2.2!<br>
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a><br></span><div><div class="h5">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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There's a ton of ways to do what you want. The biggest thing you<br>
will have to worry about is lighting. For instance, if you are<br>
putting something that was lit from the left into a scene that was<br>
lit from the right, then there is little you can do. No matter how<br>
carefully you add it to your scene your brain will always tell you<br>
there is something wrong with the picture.<br>
<br>
I tend to use a couple of different techniques to put one image into<br>
another.<br>
If the background is a relatively solid color, I'll use a technique<br>
similar to this example for cutting out images while preserving fine<br>
details (hair in this example)... hint, you don't use ANY of the<br>
selection tools, or copy and past.<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0</a><br>
or<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok</a><br>
or<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk</a><br>
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The other way I like combine image is brushing out the background<br>
using layer masks as demonstrated in this video with the leg:<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0</a><br>
<br>
I usually use a combination of the 2 techniques since you rarely get<br>
perfect results with either method.<br>
<br>
All these methods ultimately use layer masks, which is a much better<br>
way to combine photos than cutting and pasting since you can tweak<br>
what is transparent or not back and both without having to commit to<br>
a certain part of an image like you do with cutting and pasting.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
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On 01/07/2016 02:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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I found a way to super impose an image but it looks tacky.<br>
The method I learned was to open both files and then to select the<br>
image you want to put on the other with fuzzytool. I found that<br>
didn't work so I used the path tool. Well I cut the image out but<br>
the paste doesn't look good. It is out of scale. For the purposes<br>
I need WHat ithe best way to cut a house out and put it on a blue sky?<br>
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