Easily restore beautiful color and detail with exposure blending

[@JohnEboyee]

A lot of useful info packed into this video. Excellent tutorials and panel that's already saved me a lot of editing time using the most basic features! Looking forward to unlocking more of what Lumenzia has to offer as my photo journey lives on. Appreciate your hard work, Greg!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying it.

[@RohannvanRensburg]

Found your A7RII landscape tutorial on your site and it brought me here. Thanks for the concise and clear videos and tutorials! Subscribed.

[@robertstonephoto]

When you see the white edge fringe, use Image->Trim instead of the crop tool. The 'Transparent pixels' option trims exactly to the working pixels, is faster. In any stack like this, e.g. focus stack, all the layers are trimmed, even layers with visiblity turned off.

[@gregbenzphotography]

That’s generally a great approach. In this case, that won’t work because the image was rotated. So the pixels reach one corner but not the other.

[@robertstonephoto]

@@gregbenzphotography In that case, you have to use the trim making only one layer visible at a time ...

[@gregbenzphotography]

The layer is rotated, not translated. The individual layers will not trim either in this scenario.

[@robertstonephoto]

Went back to some of my stacks and found that you are correct on this. I believe it worked for me once, but it seems the top layer covered the underlying layer. With tome matched images it seemed to work; with images requiring some exposure adjustment and blending, not at all! Lesson learned!

[@gregbenzphotography]

If you get lucky with the stack or use only the translate option (which may not align), then you’ll have clean edges that trim well. But it’s very rare for this kind of handheld work.

[@JetonAliji]

Everytime I learn something new in Lumenzia when watching your workflow. Much appreciated Greg!

[@samarth9341]

Hi Greg, It took me a while to understand but after practising it on a couple of images it's soo much easier for me now. I used to hate editing and I wish I knew about Lumenzia earlier. This is such a magical tool! Thank you for teaching this for free. I will save up and buy your online dodging lessons on your website soon. Thank you again 🙏❤

[@gregbenzphotography]

Luminosity masks are not a simple concept to grasp, but extremely powerful once you do!

[@ispiratomd]

Nice video. Thx a lot for this tutorial. Can you tell us how this workspace separation works? I mean when you have that mask above the image and its like a Live mask you can see changes on image below.. Thx..

[@metrixc]

Great video. Always nice to see how to improve my Lumenzia workflow. Looking forward to more of these videos!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you!

[@johnpunnett1426]

Nice video Greg - really enjoyed that one - shows a lot of the techniques that you use & features of Lumenzia... Going to bookmark this video so I can refer back to it when I process my own images.. thks.

[@Eduardo_GL]

I've learned a lot with your videos!!!! Thank you so much

[@gregbenzphotography]

Awesome!

[@joaoquintela1575]

This is so good...(i had miss the "Shift"+ mask to activate "blend if"). Wow. Very nice

[@J5388T]

Very useful update thanks Greg!

[@Chorge1972]

THX!! Can’t wait to try that with Astro-Landscapes to blend the nighsky with my foreground. Feel free to give a newbie in PS like me a detailed video, how to do THAT! 🙂

[@LukasZ92.]

I really like the blendif option, didnt know about the "shift+klick" shortcut before :) on note from my side, for vignettes, I'm not using L1, I'm using "not Darks 3" or something like this. this makes a stronger vignette effect, but still without affecting the very dark tones (avoid clipping)

[@kk6t]

Great video Greg. I have a suggestion to help those of us not watching on GIANT monitors. You kept your images fairly small within the PS workspace. If you could maximize the images that would be really helpful.

[@omarello666]

i'm so happy that i buy it - plz do more videos

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you!

[@edshanahan]

Greg yet another great tutorial! I do have a question as to why you exported the images from LR rather than selecting Edit as Layers in PS?

[@gregbenzphotography]

Just an export I have setup when I want to open a test image that won’t be saved. Puts in my Temp folder and labels the sub-folder “ok to delete”.

[@denizahmet2299]

Do you use the HDR merge function in Lightroom to prepare files? My camera offers max 9 frames in a bracket sequence. What is the advantage of using 3, 5, 9 shots - when merging these to a HDR in Lightroom the resultant DNG file seems to have same exposure latitude and noise regardless of using 3 shots (-4,0,+4) or 9 shots (1 EV apart). Trying to understand why I would need those in-between exposures.

[@gregbenzphotography]

I very rarely use HDR merge. My exposure selection / blending approach is much more nuanced than I could explain in a comment. Covered in great detail in my course: gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-luminosity-masks/

[@jfranciskay]

Great video Greg and thank you! I don't suppose these files are available for practice are they? This is a really good beginning to end use case for how I like to use Lumenzia and I could help sharpen my skills with it. I am a Exposure Masterclass subscriber and Lumenzia user...

[@gregbenzphotography]

Yes! I have just added them to section 1.2 in the Exposure Blending Master Course.

[@jfranciskay]

@@gregbenzphotography Wow! Perfect! Thank you!

[@gregbenzphotography]

You’re welcome!

[@watchlover8297]

I tried this and my dark image opens in PS with weird colours, blues, ambers, just looks horrendous. Not sure what Ive done, am using Lumenzia 11.8.0.

[@gregbenzphotography]

Lumenzia can’t change native PS behaviors, if the image opens in a funny way, it’s something about RAW settings or something like that.

[@watchlover8297]

@@gregbenzphotography Thank you for answering. I unchecked the Check alignment (difference) box and it seems to have corrected the issue. I just did the pre blend again with it unchecked and worked again with no colouration. Just did the prebend with check difference (alignment) checked and the colour issue is back. Just thought I'd mention it. Thanks again.

[@gregbenzphotography]

@watchlover8297 that alignment option is meant to be used only monetarist to align edges manually, it definitely won’t look pretty.

[@photoindian5966]

First view and first like 📸📸👍

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you!

[@marcpilon4585]

Is it possible to get a copy of your raw file with your copywrite watermark ro practice

[@gregbenzphotography]

Yes, the RAW files are now available as part of my Exposure Blending Master Course. gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-master-course