Actually I use masking and layer transparency. But even if you're not
using Photoshop whatever software you're using to combine the exposures
is using layers of a sort. It's just easier than doing it by hand. I
expect an expert using layers could do a better job, not that I could,
but an expert.
Igor Roshchin wrote:
> Sorry, I don't have any experience with how PS does the HDR,
> but I would naively assume that the same dilemma would be when
> you try to combine two (or whatever number) layers.
> Of course, masking a part of the photo would be the way out of it.
> Is this what you have in mind, or you are talking about some other
> mechanism that allows PS to resolve this issue in creating an HDR image?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Igor
>
>
> Thu Dec 6 14:53:59 EST 2007
> P. J. Alling wrote:
>
>
>> The response curve will change similar tones everywhere. For example
>> you want to darken the sky, but some of the foreground has a patch of
>> something the same general brightness of the sky, you don't want to
>> change that. Just changing the curve will effect both, in this
>> hypothetical you need at least two layers.
>>
>
>
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