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 > 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? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@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@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@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@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss