p.1 #1 · Request For A Tutorial or Information: Multiple Pictures To Look Like Long Exposure
Looking for any help possible. I know Photoshop, but I sometimes I just kinda slip my mind on how to do things. I took a bunch of pictures of a bridge with moving water. I couldn't do as long of an exposure as I wanted (left my ND filters in the car ). All the photos were shot with a tripod so only the water is in different positions.
Is it best to take the images and just import them as separate layers then lower the opacity for each layer? Or separate layers then lighten blending modes? I tried to auto-blend the images but it didn't look good.
If anyone has any tutorials of how to mimic a slow shutter with multiple images, please post them in here as I am searching for some help.
Oct 16, 2012 at 02:59 PM
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p.1 #2 · Request For A Tutorial or Information: Multiple Pictures To Look Like Long Exposure
Side1Cincy wrote:
Looking for any help possible. I know Photoshop, but I sometimes I just kinda slip my mind on how to do things. I took a bunch of pictures of a bridge with moving water. I couldn't do as long of an exposure as I wanted (left my ND filters in the car ). All the photos were shot with a tripod so only the water is in different positions.
Is it best to take the images and just import them as separate layers then lower the opacity for each layer? Or separate layers then lighten blending modes? I tried to auto-blend the images but it didn't look good.
If anyone has any tutorials of how to mimic a slow shutter with multiple images, please post them in here as I am searching for some help. ...Show more →
You can open them all in Photoshop as ACR Smart Objects so that you can do masking for each on a separate layer.
For faking the long exposure blur, you can use motion blur.
p.1 #3 · Request For A Tutorial or Information: Multiple Pictures To Look Like Long Exposure
So, just curious, did I waste my time taking a bunch of different photos with the plan to merge them together to fake the long exposure blur in the water?
Thanks for the help.
Oct 16, 2012 at 03:27 PM
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p.1 #4 · Request For A Tutorial or Information: Multiple Pictures To Look Like Long Exposure
It's better to get long exposure blurs in camera because masking in photoshop for faking blurs can take longer time.
p.1 #5 · Request For A Tutorial or Information: Multiple Pictures To Look Like Long Exposure
Probably not a waste. Although I have never tried combining such correctly-exposed images in Ps I do know that if you used in-camera merging of multiple under-exposures then you would end up with more texture on the water than if you took a single long exposure. Also, if you apply blur within Ps then you might not get the direction quite right everywhere and it could look a bit too fake, or like you're a bit too inexperienced.
). All the photos were shot with a tripod so only the water is in different positions.