This is probably the best exposure blending tutorial on KZread. Best I've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing!

Great tutorial, what's really useful is your explanation of why you make certain adjustments and what each process does to the image. I learned so much, keep up the tutorials!

Farout. Watched this about 6 months ago and was lost, quickly. Today, watched and completely understand what you did. Need to understand layers and masking better. Will see this again in the future. Today, was only trying to keep some colour, at 0EV, of some stones. And yet keep the -4EV background. All three images captured with great lighting indoors with a tripod. Excellent. Am getting there. Slowly but surely. Thanks for uploading.

EXCELLENT! It's the GIMP tutorial I've been waiting for! Thank you Ian for doing this, I can't wait for more.

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

There'll definitely be more!

So slick I am smiling...Thanks Ian. End image is perfect. Keep up the good work.Off to look for your other tutorials.

Very nice. Well explained. Looking forward to more videos!

Great video! Thanks. I spent about an hour last night trying to figure how to do this on my own. You explained it perfectly.

Nice work! Very clear explanation of what is causing what effects and how to work with the editing tools

Perfect! This is exactly what I wanted to know. I have several over/under exposed pictures of a cityscape and I want to blend them together. Now the next key is extrapolating this into multiple (more than 2) exposures...

Great tutorial looking forward to more. Thank you

This is sooo interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Thanks for the info about GMIC. It is wonderful!

great stuff been waiting for you to do these tutorials and hasn't disappointed looking forward to the next one

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

Cheers Terry, much appreciated!

The final result is really great! :)

Very clearly exposed. Thanks for this tutorial ! You don't just show what you do, but you also explain why, and that's interesting.

Amazing!! Thank you very much!!

Nicely done. Thank you!

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

awesome, please do more!

Top video: thank you I would be interested to see how these sort of techniques would work with a more minimalist approach. Monochrome pictures and unsaturating colour

Excellent.

Muy bueno el Resultado final 👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👍👍👍!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ian. This will (hopefully) allow me to fix a number of disappointing images. I am off to try it.

Wow. This is pretty damn amazing! And will require much study 🙂

Appreciate it buddy thanks

Outstanding! Thank You for this from a long time follower of your work. I notice that you took down your Text HDR Tutorial, I'm glad I printed out a copy! Hopefully it will become a "workbook" for your future HDR tutorials. Just one thing, the background music was really getting distracting about half way thru....you might want to change it up at certain points on the long videos, or use something without the high pitched instruments. That is what draws the attention to how short the loop is. Looking forward to more, and Thank You for all the hard work!

Hi Ian, Just came across this today (04/02/19) Thank you for the education. You have a deep understanding of GIMP. Could you point me to where I could find more on how to get the best out of this program please. Many thanks. David Williams (DCW)

well done thank u

Great Video!

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Appreciated. =)

Cheers Ian

Very good. I tried to watching others but they talk too fast and more interested in sponsorship. I have Lightroom Mobile which allows you to take 3 exposure shots and saves them as DNG. I never really bothered until I update my laptop and go full desktop software again. Interesingly you use Linux and my older laptop i put that on. Long story cut short I'm going to get a new laptop where I don't have to worry about finding drivers and stuff out of the box. I will bookmark this and have a look for the plug-in you mentioned.

Could you explain what the rationale is behind the division when you feather the the selection? I think you divide the picture width by 6, why is this?

@robertleeimages

Жыл бұрын

I want to know this too

why not use selective Gaussian blurring? I mean the one provided with GIMP? And while I am at it, a bilateral filter is not the same as a Gaussian filter. It is a more general type which takes into account differences of the intensity or other parameters of the image pixels. Which kind of answers my question.…

Hi Ian can I just ask what image viewer you use I noticed you use the new kubuntu as I do, unfortunately gwenview doesn't work with raw in the new distro

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Terry, I too use Gwenview but the images you see in the video are exported JPGs. =)

Oh yeah thanks

Another question: Why does my sky(the dark layer)after all the steps not stay as dark as it was originally, after its blended yours seems to stay exactly as it was when 1st uploaded into gimp

Question because you lose me: When you do the Gaussian blur the couple of times at/from 6 minutes in, are you undoing those steps before going to gmic or leaving that Gaussian blur as a step and then doing gmic over the top?

Could you explain what is the point of the background music?

When you go to feather the selection (about 15:00) and you decide to use "maths" you take the width and divide by 6. Choosing 6 seemed a little arbitrary. What made you choose 6? Why divide the width? Can you explain that more?

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

Mostly I just have a thing for numbers (and also for GIMP's ability to do maths in various dialogs). I just like the feathering/blurring radius to be related to the longest measurement of the image: there's no scientific reason behind it. The only thing that matters is that the feathering is soft enough to produce a natural blend. =)

@DavidLaCivita

9 жыл бұрын

Oh... OK. Keep up the good work!

Looks like you ended up with a good bit of gradient reversal at the edge to the sky. Could be youtubes compression too. Cool tutorial anyways. :)

@IanHex

9 жыл бұрын

Possibly a little bit, if this annoys you can always dodge the highlights of the mask to refine further. =)

was beginning to think no-one uses linux 4photography. how do u find darktable as complete solution, im getting on well with lightzone. be interested 2hear from you

@bernym4047

8 жыл бұрын

+andrew walmsley I too am a great fan of LightZone. I tried Darktable but it would not recognise my raw files. Now, I'm getting some great results very quickly from LightZone. BTW, I to use Linux on all of my computers with one dual booting to windows xp purely to run some legacy applications.

@andrewwalmsley2314

8 жыл бұрын

+Berny M cool, nice to hear from linux people. i only boot the odd ocassion too. however i work in i.t. so support windows all day long! lightzone is good, i just cant do spot removal - cannot work it out

Couldn't you do a "color to alpha" with the darkest photo? :|

To bad you aren't still making videos.

Thanks for putting all the hard work into showing some brilliant blending techniques. The end result is superb. I hate to be critical but I would rather hear your voice clearly and without any interference from background incidental music. Why add it? You are bound to offend at least 50% of viewers whose musical tastes are different from yours and it adds nothing to the video production which, after all is a technical lecture. Secondly, you appeared to use some keyboard shortcuts when showing or hiding layer masks etc. and you failed to explain what they were, so I was left trying to guess them. In the end I had to resort to clicking menus when shortcuts are so much more efficient. These minor criticisms aside, an altogether superb video.

Very good explanation of how to do HDR in Gimp but .... lose the music; it drives me crazy. It prevents keeping a focus on your explanation and I have no idea why you think you need music in the background

wow nice intro 1 minute long. ..time to watch the rest.