TK FRIDAY: Exposure Blending With Linear Profiles (Practice Image Downloads Provided)

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I had a lot of response last week about doing a tutorial on Exposure Blending using the TK8 PLUGIN FOR PHOTOSHOP. Here is that video. Today I have two different examples. One is a hard edged blend and the other is a more typical blend. Both of these images were submitted from TK FRIDAY Viewers. A special thanks to Michele Verilhac, France and Mathias Jung, Germany...

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EXPOSURE BLENDING INSTRUCTIONS Starting with Lightroom:
1. Apply Linear Profile
2. Click Auto Adjust
3. Exposure Match using Lightroom's RA View... (Adjust both images until they look similar.) Start by adjusting the Dark Image and getting it to look as close to the lighter image as possible...
4. Select both images and send them into Photoshop as Smart Objects...
5. Use the TK Stack Action to stack the images.
6. Place the Dark Image above the Light Image.
7. Reduce Opacity of the Light Image to 50%
8. Use the UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS on your keyboard to Nudge the images into alignment, if needed...
9. Set the Opacity of the Light Image back to 100% (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT)
10. Put a Black Mask on the Light Image to hide it...
11. Open up the Luminosity Masks in the TK8 MultiMask Panel.
12. Find the Channel that gives you the most Contrast between the Sky and the Foreground. (the Blue Channel generally works well for this step) Tweak the Mask if needed...
13. Output the Mask to the Layer.
14. You can now use the TK8 MultiMask Panel's Layer Mask Mode to further refine your mask like I did in the video tutorial...

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