Easy Exposure Blending Trick in GIMP (Tutorial)

In this photo editing tutorial, I show you an easy technique for blending multiple exposures in GIMP with images taken using exposure bracketing. This simple trick allows you to bring out the best parts of your image exposures - including underexposed, over exposed, and normally exposed elements. No plugin is required for this technique!
This is a great introduction to exposure blending and exposure bracketing. I recommend Googling exposure bracketing using your camera make and model to find out how to perform this technique when taking pictures.
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  • @babymoodlampofficial202
    @babymoodlampofficial2022 жыл бұрын

    Just what I was looking for as I wanted a lightroom alternative and your video taught me EVERYTHING!! Brilliant! I have to subscribe now!

  • @martinjoseferreyra1961
    @martinjoseferreyra19612 жыл бұрын

    ¡Mil gracias! I've been looking for something just like this for a long time, I even gave up. But you gave me the easy and free solution that I needed. Thanks!

  • @CBTheMechanic
    @CBTheMechanic3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! This video has helped me a lot! I immediately got fantastic results with my cityscapes!

  • @CBTheMechanic

    @CBTheMechanic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way to get your e-book in pdf or a format that is readable on an android tablet? (I don't have kindle.)

  • @jmedinar
    @jmedinar4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man excellent as always

  • @JeanLucCoulon
    @JeanLucCoulon4 жыл бұрын

    Soooo easy! thanks !

  • @cosmo0080
    @cosmo00804 жыл бұрын

    hi, this is where adjustable layer would come in handy, thank you

  • @iamgr00t_
    @iamgr00t_2 жыл бұрын

    I am a beginner with GIMP. Very well explained!!

  • @trishfoster9102
    @trishfoster91023 жыл бұрын

    This was very helpful. Thank you.

  • @soratabarcamoo1292
    @soratabarcamoo12922 жыл бұрын

    Excelente, el mejor video para crear el horquillado de la exposición

  • @dreamcatcher3622
    @dreamcatcher36224 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @GrimSt
    @GrimSt4 жыл бұрын

    You, Sir, are the most needed teacher on KZread for Gimp users. Thank you ! I would like to have your view on how to get moody tones. All the videos I watch on this subject are about Lightroom. I have already obtained some cool moody photos but your knowledge might be really useful. Keep it up and thanks again.

  • @ulftornert2855
    @ulftornert2855 Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial! Thank you!

  • @blastgrinder7024
    @blastgrinder70243 жыл бұрын

    tnx for a good tutorial!! keep up the good work =)

  • @meta_creator
    @meta_creator4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @gimbalair
    @gimbalair3 жыл бұрын

    Great vid, everyday is a school day for me as inlearn how to improve my shots.

  • @underthedrone2735
    @underthedrone27352 жыл бұрын

    Excellent tutorial! Thanks! Subbed.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @PCcardboard1354
    @PCcardboard13542 жыл бұрын

    Since I have a lower-sensor size camera, this will help a ton!

  • @zaca211
    @zaca2113 жыл бұрын

    You Sir, are the man. Scanning 60+ year old slides and couldn't figure out how to get the underexposed parts to show up properly. Running 3 different exposures on my camera and blending them makes the final result 100x better.

  • @tompatton2086
    @tompatton20863 жыл бұрын

    The final result looked good minus the sky which was a tad desaturated.

  • @NexusBaum
    @NexusBaum2 жыл бұрын

    super helpful! :)

  • @mlc3ifly
    @mlc3ifly2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the tutorial. I tried following exactly what you did with importing my three images. On the step where I drug the normal image over to the right side layer panel it stayed but the other two images disappeared. Do you have an answer for this? Thanks

  • @Loedin_71105
    @Loedin_711054 жыл бұрын

    excellent

  • @MattVickers
    @MattVickers4 жыл бұрын

    Any reason you didn't use the 'open as layers' feature?

  • @MJohnson-qp9he
    @MJohnson-qp9he Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video. Would this process work for focus stacking?

  • @warpspeed9877
    @warpspeed98774 жыл бұрын

    I am trying to make the same with B&W images. Is it the same procedure?

  • @annieclark9772
    @annieclark97723 ай бұрын

    Hi, thank you fro this tutorial. GIMP isn't taking my three RAW files, do I have to do this in JPG?

  • @luismahieu
    @luismahieu3 жыл бұрын

    super helpful but I still have a problem, I shot these photos on my drone so it wasn't perfectly stable which results in some unwanted blur. How do I fix this?

  • @wilardjuice07
    @wilardjuice073 жыл бұрын

    Do you have a video on how to delete a sun glare from a photo? Is there a way to do that?

  • @creepycool286
    @creepycool2862 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I don't have the same GIMP screen as you do how to set that up?

  • @SW-Video
    @SW-Video2 жыл бұрын

    Is there a straight forward easy way to blend images in GIMP for exposure like there is in Photoshop or Lightroom? Nothing complicated. No 33 clicks. Just highlight the 3-5 images and blend them for HDR.

  • @modern-tool-service
    @modern-tool-service3 жыл бұрын

    same method for B&W images?

  • @Aviator168
    @Aviator168 Жыл бұрын

    Instead of getting the 3 photos. Can the exposure level be changed to get the 3 photos?

  • @pipster1891
    @pipster18912 жыл бұрын

    How do you get the GIMP page looking like the one at the beginning here (2:30)? How do get the images to appear together as thumbnails at the top?

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Windows>Show Tabs

  • @scottcjohnson59
    @scottcjohnson592 жыл бұрын

    Would this technique work using a jpeg instead of RAW? I prefer to shoot jpeg

  • @Shaikailash1
    @Shaikailash13 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand how the color > layers window is used, is there a better tutorial explaining that?

  • @immofornote1621
    @immofornote16214 жыл бұрын

    And here is our result in less than a milli second !

  • @CaptainFancy
    @CaptainFancy3 жыл бұрын

    None of these tutorials that I've searched show you how to first "align" all of your stacked images before you start your blending like you can in Photoshop. HOW??? I don't think GIMP can do it.

  • @UNSCPILOT

    @UNSCPILOT

    2 жыл бұрын

    You almost certainly need a tripod and a wired/wireless remote to have any chance of making this work consistently. Handheld HDR is only really possible if the device itself can rapidly take the shots and blend them automatically, some phones can do this. Any slight movement between the shots will make them nearly impossible to fully align especially close up

  • @evildiesel1709
    @evildiesel17093 жыл бұрын

    I didn't like the sky in the final image.

  • @pnabh4032
    @pnabh40323 жыл бұрын

    Or you can learn to take better pictures instead. Thats what I'll be doing, thanks.

  • @kitten-whisperer

    @kitten-whisperer

    2 жыл бұрын

    You realize all photos are edited, right? There's no such thing as capturing an image perfectly just from camera. If you played guitar, would you so not use an amp or any effect pedals because you want to be a purist? Lol

  • @2warwick
    @2warwick3 жыл бұрын

    Great - thanks! This was very clear and helpful.