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! 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? On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Brian Cluff 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 > > 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: