Avery wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:55:22 -0800, "RON"
wrote:
I have read where people say they have merged photos. I think they are talking about taking a overexposed and a underexposed photo and merging them into one photo.
How do you do this?
Am I even on the right track?
Thanks for your time
Ron
Here’s am article on the subject
http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Tips/Two-ExposureContrastMaskin g.html
Good little site. However that last step is unnecessarily complicated. Don’t forget the lovely little feature in Photoshop that I used a lot before Shadow/Highlight came along….
<Ctrl> <Alt> ~
This has been known as "The Claw" by the contortions that your hand has to go through to do with one hand.
This will select the highlights in your picture. It does it in a nice graduated manner too. It does do it at only one level, but you can always go into Quick Mask and use Curves or Levels on the QM to adjust how much of the lightness you want included.
So, get the light and dark exposed picture in as layers, like they say. (BTW, use a tripod.) When you activate the layer where you want to delete the dark stuff, do this:
<Ctrl> <Alt> ~
<Ctrl> <Shift> I
<Delete>
That selects the highlight and then inverses the selection. That leaves only the dark stuff selected. Then delete it.
This is WAY faster and easier than erasing with a brush. In the old days, I used The Claw in 7 and earlier to select highlights or shadows and then used Curves with that selection to pull up or down. Shadow/Highlight is much easier.
Clyde
