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Learn how to use luminosity masks in Photoshop to blend two exposures now.
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This technique for blending exposures with luminosity masks produces results far cleaner than any HDR software.

It is beginner level luminosity masking tutorial so assumes you are familiar in general with the idea of layer masking. If not then check out my Intro to Layers and Masks video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKHeU8rWFs

If you want to learn the ins and outs of luminosity masks in photoshop from the ground up, then you can download my free PDF guide “An Intro To Luminosity Masking” here: https://postprocessingmastery.com/intro-to-lm

The key to understanding luminosity masks in photoshop is understanding the difference between a “2 dimensional” selection and a “3 dimensional” selection.

You can think of a luminosity selection as a three dimensional selection, where it has length and height, but also depth which is based on the brightness of the pixels in the image.

When you utilise luminosity selections to create your layer masks, you’ll be able to create top quality, clean images, that look more natural and less “Photoshopped!”.

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See how I blended 4 bracketed exposures using Luminosity Masks in Photoshop to create this finished image. The techniques I’m revealing in this video let you create a natural looking image from your bracketed exposures.

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If you want to get up to speed with exposure blending first, then watch this:

Exposure Blending Photoshop Tutorial: For BEGINNERS ONLY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgDH_ht-js

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Or to learn more about Luminosity Masking from the ground up, go here:

How To Understand Luminosity Masking (with a DIFFERENT way of thinking): https://youtu.be/Kz-CIUFUXis

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In this tutorial I’m showing you a quick and easy way to use Photoshops Warp Tool to create the perfect composition in your landscape images.

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Learn the Photoshop techniques I used to make this daytime landscape photo POP in Photoshop.

This is episode 26 in my “Processing Subscribers Images” series and credit for the image featured in for todays video goes to James May, who captured this beautiful landscape scene and wanted to know my process for making it POP in photoshop.

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Links to videos mentioned in this episode
How To Get Started Using Luminosity Masks: https://youtu.be/VPnb1cG6KWM
Ultimate Guide To The Orton Effect: https://youtu.be/09Li-x8Nu_c
Full playlist of ALL EPISODES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj-ISJukb5Ao_-k9V1guAeYIm-HfbogaE

Thanks very much again to James May for providing the image featured in this video!
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Welcome to episode 32 of my Processing Subscriber Images video series!

Many thanks to subscriber Nicole Richstein for submitting this beautiful image for todays video. (And my apologies if I said your name wrong in the introduction!)

Nicole has been struggling to create a version that she likes of this image, so I’ll be sharing my views on how to get the best out of it in Photoshop here in this video.

The photo contains many ingredients needed to make a great shot. The colours in the sky are many landscape photographers dream shooting conditions, so I’ll be concentrating mainly on how to get the image to POP with a combination of contrast and brightness adjustments.

This video is also a little bit of an experiment in that instead of walking you through the adjustments as I make them, I’ve already edited the image and I’m now just walking you through what I’ve done retrospectively.

This has resulted in a video around 1/3rd the length of my other subscriber image video – so I’ll be interested to see which format you prefer!

Please let me know in the comments 🙂

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Links to videos mentioned in this episode
How To Get Started Using Luminosity Masks: https://youtu.be/VPnb1cG6KWM
Advanced Exposure Blending using Luminosity Masks: https://youtu.be/r11QIKBxFqo
16 Bit Luminosity Masking in Photoshop: https://youtu.be/9a4YNPkQ9xc
Ultimate Guide To The Orton Effect: https://youtu.be/09Li-x8Nu_c
Full playlist of ALL EPISODES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj-ISJukb5Ao_-k9V1guAeYIm-HfbogaE

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