Basic Exposure Blending using GIMP
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- My first video tutorial! Learn how to blend two landscape photo exposures together using the free & open-source software GIMP and GMIC. No HDR apps needed! Please like, subscribe and share!
Unique British landscape and architecture photography - www.lightsweep.co.uk
Download the GIMP - www.gimp.org/
Donate to the GIMP - www.gimp.org/do...
Download the GMIC plugin for GIMP - gmic.eu/gimp.shtml
Intro and Outro music by Andrew Bamber - / andrew-bamber
Tutorial background music "Oh Wee" by Immortal Beats - freemusicarchiv... (Creative Commons)
Thanks to PatDavid and DRCarmeloRaw on discuss.pixls.us for their help and tips!
This is probably the best exposure blending tutorial on TH-cam. Best I've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing!
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.
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!
Very clearly exposed. Thanks for this tutorial ! You don't just show what you do, but you also explain why, and that's interesting.
Great video! Thanks. I spent about an hour last night trying to figure how to do this on my own. You explained it perfectly.
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...
EXCELLENT! It's the GIMP tutorial I've been waiting for! Thank you Ian for doing this, I can't wait for more.
There'll definitely be more!
Nice work! Very clear explanation of what is causing what effects and how to work with the editing tools
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
So slick I am smiling...Thanks Ian. End image is perfect. Keep up the good work.Off to look for your other tutorials.
great stuff been waiting for you to do these tutorials and hasn't disappointed looking forward to the next one
Cheers Terry, much appreciated!
Thanks Ian. This will (hopefully) allow me to fix a number of disappointing images. I am off to try it.
Very nice. Well explained. Looking forward to more videos!
Thanks for the info about GMIC. It is wonderful!
Great tutorial looking forward to more. Thank you
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!
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.
This is sooo interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing this!
The final result is really great! :)
Muy bueno el Resultado final 👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👍👍👍!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicely done. Thank you!
My pleasure!
awesome, please do more!
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)
Amazing!! Thank you very much!!
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.…
Excellent.
Wow. This is pretty damn amazing! And will require much study 🙂
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?
I want to know this too
well done thank u
Cheers Ian
Great Video!
Thank you very much! Appreciated. =)
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
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?
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
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?
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. =)
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. :)
Possibly a little bit, if this annoys you can always dodge the highlights of the mask to refine further. =)
Oh yeah thanks
Could you explain what is the point of the background music?
To bad you aren't still making videos.
Couldn't you do a "color to alpha" with the darkest photo? :|
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
Hi Terry, I too use Gwenview but the images you see in the video are exported JPGs. =)
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
+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.
+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
wow nice intro 1 minute long. ..time to watch the rest.