How to do Exposure blending in Photoshop, Layer masks on exposures to create photographs with incredible detail in highlights and shadows.

Exposure blending is a great way to craft your photo, showing details in highlight areas such as skies and brighter areas, as well as showing details in shadows.

The main difference between this and HDR, is that HDR affects the entire photograph, where as exposure blending, allows you to brush in the details exactly where you like.

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Links mentioned in the tutorial:

• HDR Tutorial
• Wacom tablet Review
• Layer Masking tutorial

 

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11 responses to “Exposure blending in Photoshop to bring out details in photographs”

1. I love ocean views to photograph. Colin. I have a question, I have recently bought a HP Spectre with a pencil, can you use that the same way as a graphic tablet in Photoshop?

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   • Im not sure what a Spectre is, but Im going to guess yes, as long as it supports pen pressure

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2. Very good tutorial. Learnt a lot. Thanks

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3. The Swiss Alps at Wengen. In the shadow of the Eiger. The light changes all the time.

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4. So, you like to pull up your hair and grab a cup of coffee… I could of done that 30 years ago, but not now! ;-))

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5. Thanks — much prefer to HDR look

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6. Always enjoy learning from your tutorials.

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7. Favourite places:
   US National Parks – particularly Great Sand Dunes, Death Valley – Eureka Dunes, & White Sands.
   Charleston, SC. Newfoundland, Canada

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8. Photoshop has sooooo many different means of shading, coloring, masking, sharpening and thousands of brushes and techniques to use them all. I believe that we all have our personal preferences to each and our own preferences to what kind of images we enjoy looking at and/or Photoshoping. You have some good ideas and i enjoyed watching you work. Thank you.

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9. amazing easy tutorial , nice one for beginners

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10. Don’t forget to share your images with the community on our facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/53878338135/

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