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@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@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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