Blended Exposures
Sometimes the range of light
is so wide, a digital camera cannot capture it all. The traditional
solution for landscape photographers is to use a graduated neutral
density filter to reduce the dynamic range of the scene. This
video demonstrates an easy technique for blending two images,
one exposed for the highlights, the exposed for the shadows. This
technique does not use the Brush tool. It just uses a luminosity
mask, which is refined with a Gaussian Blur and a Levels adjustment.
Video window: 800x600
Total running time: 12:02
(20.1mb Quicktime Video)
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Get
Your Dodging & Burning Under Control
Making selective adjustments
to the contrast of an image is possible with Photoshop’s Burn
and Dodge tools, but you cannot be certain of their effect until
you actually brush a stroke, and then your only choices are to accept
the adjustment or reverse it completely with an Undo operation.
For more control over burning and dodging, you can use a combination
of the Brush tool and an Overlay layer filled with 50% gray. My
tutorial, "Get Your Dodging and Burning Under Control," shows you
how.
Video window: 800x600
Total running time: 7:01
(12.9mb Quicktime Video)
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