Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial (archived topic)
roman.johnston Offline Image Upload: Off
Registered: Jan 24, 2004 Total Posts: 730 Country: United States
Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
About a year ago, I got some advice here about how to blend two shots with High Dynamic Range using layer masks to compress them together without the light flattening effects of HDR blends. I got some VERY useful tips here and did some research and put together my own tutorial that ends up being VERY quick....VERY easy on the processor of your computer....and highly effective in creating scenes that compress the dynamic range without loosing microcontrast....and therefore not loosing the precieved "Depth" of the shot.
Some is learned here...some learned on the internet elsware....and some just intuitivly tuned by me playing with it.
Allen_Maestas Offline Image Upload: Off
Registered: Feb 18, 2005 Total Posts: 18502 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Thanks Roman!
Al
Feb 07, 2007 at 01:00 PM
ScaryFox Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Dec 30, 2004 Total Posts: 17512 Country: United Kingdom
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Thank you Roman, that is excellent.
Ute
Feb 07, 2007 at 01:32 PM
Zeph Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Jan 30, 2005 Total Posts: 2564 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
This is great! Thanks Roman!
Feb 07, 2007 at 01:47 PM
Jarvone Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Dec 25, 2004 Total Posts: 1932 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Well done...very useful. 4:52 am???? Jarv
Feb 07, 2007 at 01:58 PM
JimFox Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Jan 11, 2005 Total Posts: 13879 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Hey Roman,
Good tutorial. That is great that you put that together. I must have been paying attention to the same tips as you were last year, because I pretty much do what you described, so that is cool to know! :)
Jim
Feb 07, 2007 at 02:30 PM
SJMD Offline Image Upload: Off
Registered: Nov 13, 2004 Total Posts: 12419 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
:applause:
Now why did I not think of that ???
Thanks for the information
Feb 07, 2007 at 02:32 PM
pascupixar Offline Image Upload: Off Registered: May 10, 2005 Total Posts: 64 Country: N/A
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful.
Best regards.
Pascual.
Feb 07, 2007 at 04:11 PM
Richard Booth Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Oct 02, 2003 Total Posts: 730 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Thanks very much for this information. I've been struggling with this for awhile. This makes perfect sense.
Richard
Feb 08, 2007 at 12:24 PM
santos Offline Image Upload: On Registered: Feb 19, 2004 Total Posts: 13601 Country: Switzerland
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
Most generous of you, Roman.
Thanks a ton :thumb:
santiago
Feb 08, 2007 at 02:03 PM
dnapsqm Offline Image Upload: Off
Registered: Sep 30, 2003 Total Posts: 470 Country: United States
Re: Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
This looks easy enough for me to try. Thanks Roman!
-Michael
Feb 08, 2007 at 03:14 PM
ramdisk Offline Image Upload: Off Registered: Mar 25, 2005 Total Posts: 237 Country: United States
Dynamic Range Layer Mask Blend Tutorial
