EXPOSURE BLENDING IN PHOTOSHOP WITH BLEND IF: Quick and Easy featuring the TK8 PLUGIN FOR PHOTOSHOP

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

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[@emilebaudot904]

A great alternative to LM blending Dave... So quick. Another belter Dave!

[@johnbarney8051]

Dave, I just tried this method on 2 extreme exposures & it worked like a charm - so simple!!!! Once again, you never cease to amaze!

[@patrickguilfoyle8884]

Great explanation of Blend if. Thanks Dave

[@micheldominique9583]

Thank you Dave for this very clear tutorial

[@tonynicolaci3244]

Thanks for explanation on the open as smart objects from lightroom to photoshop as opposed to making layers as smart object in photoshop. I didn't realise the difference.

[@keithpinn152]

Hi Dave: Thanks for sharing this alternative work-flow. For this image, using the 'Blend If' technique is a much more elegant way to work this image. Keep well. . . . Keith

[@ChristiaanRoest79]

Thanks Dave for sharing all your amazing videos. Recently discovered your TK8 panel videos. Working with the panel for a while now and love it. So easy to use. I know how to use the features manually in Photoshop but this saves a lot of time. Time is money :-)

[@patrickkeeley2675]

Thanks!

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Thanks Patrick.

[@marcystarnes5511]

could you use the Align layers for the alignment

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

You can if you don’t open as Smart Objects.

[@anthonyesposito6665]

I have a question as to why you edited this image as you did. After having made the two images as alike as possible, the result is very flat. Why did you make them as alike as possible? There was a lot of drama in the sky from the darker image. The lighter image, with additional saturation and contrast could make an attractive foreground. I'm trying to learn and I can see that I'm missing something. I would have thought that the best approach would be to make each image as appealing as possible, then combine them using luminosity masks and then finish the editing in Photoshop. Instead, you are going to do ALL the editing in Photoshop. I'm sure that I am missing something. Please don't mistake this for critism. You have forgotten more Photoshop than I will ever know.

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Great question Anthony. In order for this exposure blending technique to work you need to match the exposures as close as possible. Basically you want to make the image look like it originally was but due to the camera not having the ability to capture the dynamic range we need to blend the two images. One for the Sky exposure and one for the foreground exposure. If the sky doesn’t match the scene then it would look out of place and not very realistic. After the exposure blend I now have a great place to start in Photoshop and bring the image to where I would like it to be. My workflow is to take a well balanced image into Photoshop and then build it up from there utilizing the TK8 Plugin for Photoshop.