Exposure Blending in Photoshop CS6
It’s not that often that I use exposure blending anymore because many of my clients want a single capture image. In addition though, Adobe’s Lightroom 4 software has such a robust RAW processing engine now, that I can usually get detail out of both my shadows and highlights if I expose in the proper area of my histogram. Like all of photography though, there are many solutions for many situations, and the technique that I highlight here is one of the best that I have found to deal a high dynamic range when my subject rises above my horizon in my composition. I hope that you find it useful in your workflow when processing images as well.
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February 16th, 2013 at 5:59 am
Excellent tutorial! Your workflow was detailed but correctly paced, and very informative!
Thanks very much for sharing this technique.
February 16th, 2013 at 7:58 pm
Jay, Thank you for sharing this tutorial. It was very informative and I learned a few new things to try in Photoshop that I have not used before. I have not done any layer exposure blending but am excited to try this technique.
February 17th, 2013 at 10:38 pm
You are welcome Katy. Thank you so much for commenting.
February 17th, 2013 at 10:38 pm
Great Michael! Let us know how it goes when you give it a try.
February 20th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Excellently presented and informative.
February 20th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Thank you very much!
February 25th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Great tutorial, thank you! I use this technique a lot and you’ve given me some excellent tools to refine my work even more.
February 25th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Thank you for the comment Charles. Let me know how it goes once you give it try.
February 26th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Wow, awesome video – thanks so much!
February 26th, 2013 at 10:04 pm
You are welcome Steve. Glad you enjoyed it.