If you take two shots from the exact same position, one exposed for the sky and one for the ground (say at sunset), what is the best way to "merge" the two so that you have a properly exposed photo on both areas?
There is a tutorial about this. If you look at the top of your screen and go to learn then click on tutorials it should be the first one on your screen.
My pleasure,
-dan
Photoshop CS2 has this capability in it's Merge to HDR (File, Automate, Merge to HDR).
The acronym HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. In Adobe's implementation within Photoshop CS2 this is accomplished by using a series of photographs which one takes in the same manner as with previous blending techniques, and then using floating point 32 bit (per channel) math, merging these files automatically into one huge high dynamic range image.
open one. open the other - on it do a Cntr A Cntrl J (copy and dup the layer) - then holding hte SHIFT key drag the new layer ontop of the first image (shift centers it when you drop it).
then take the top one, make a mask for it and 'paint' with black or white to reveal the part of the lower image (BG layer in this case) that you want to show. When you get to the transition edge, adjsut the brush's opacity to feather things.
Wow! That sounds way too useful :)
I've got to check if CS1 has the same option.
Thanks for the tip.
Originally posted by BradP:
Photoshop CS2 has this capability in it's Merge to HDR (File, Automate, Merge to HDR).
The acronym HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. In Adobe's implementation within Photoshop CS2 this is accomplished by using a series of photographs which one takes in the same manner as with previous blending techniques, and then using floating point 32 bit (per channel) math, merging these files automatically into one huge high dynamic range image.
