Create a Magical Landscape With Luminosity Masks in Photoshop and Raya Pro 3.0 Download Raya Pro Today – Find out more. In today’s tutorial we look at how to blend two landscape exposures in Photoshop with luminosity masks. We take this a step further by using the dodge and burn tools to further refine our […]
Tutorial – Complex Luminosity Masks Made Easy With InstaMask in Photoshop
Tutorial – Complex Luminosity Masks Made Easy With InstaMask in Photoshop In this latest InstaMask tutorial, I show you two ways of using luminosity masks – one simple method for exposure blending, and another, more complex method for targeting a very narrow range of tones. As you’ll see, luminosity mask functions are extremely simple in […]
Forget HDR Software – 5 Ways To Blend Any Exposures In Photoshop
Forget HDR Software – 5 Ways To Blend Any Exposures In Photoshop In this week’s tutorial, I show you 5 ways to blend any exposures in Photoshop. Anyone who has followed my website and blog for a while will know that I stopped using any form of HDR software a long time ago. I believe […]
Quick Photoshop Secrets 11: (Luminosity Masks) Smoothly Blend Sunsets & Blue Hour Scenes
Quick Photoshop Secrets 11: (Luminosity Masks) Smoothly Blend Sunsets & Blue Hour Scenes One very impacting way of deepening the mood of our blue hour images is blending in a sunrise/sunset from the same scene, at preferably the same focal length. There are many ways to blend these two exposures naturally, but luminosity masks are […]
How To Deal With Moving Objects In Exposure Blending
How To Deal With Moving Objects In Exposure Blending Dealing with moving objects, like leaves/trees/foliage or people, in our images presents a challenge in all forms of exposure blending. With HDR software, moving objects are one of the more common causes of haloing and ghosting. In Digital Blending, we can completely avoid halos and ghosting, […]
Luminosity Masks – Why Can’t I Paint Inside The Selection?
Luminosity Masks – Why Can’t I Paint Inside The Selection? As beginners to luminosity masks, there are a number of challenges we face in understanding their application. LMs are a wonderful tool for any landscape or cityscape photographer, but one of the most common questions I’m asked by newcomers to LMs is, ‘why can’t I […]