superimpose image

[Brian Cluff]

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 at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at 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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