Exposure Blending with Blend If in Photoshop

The Unrivaled Blend If Panel: f64.co/Blend-If-Panel
So here we are in 2023, and there are so many ways to blend Exposures. Remember 2010 when I had a Blog called everydayHDR, and the only way I would blend my exposures was with Photomatix? Where is that now?
Anyway.
In 2023 you can use ACR and Lightroom to make a pretty darn good HDR merge. You can select the sky in RAW and independently edit the foreground and background. Hopping into Photoshop, you can use Apply Image, Luminosity Masks, hand-painted masks, AI selections, and the list goes on and on.
Today, I want to show you my favorite method. Can you guess? Blend If, of course. Maybe that's how I got the nickname "Blend If Blake" thanks, Heike ;)
In this lesson, I will not only show you how to use Blend If to blend exposures, but I'll also tell you why I prefer it over other methods.
🦆Chapters🦆
00:00 Explanation of Exposure Blending
00:38 ACR processing for Blending
02:54 Aligning the Layers in Ps
04:24 Luminosity Masking Blending
05:31 Blend If Exposure Blending
07:41 Blend If vs. Luminosity Masks
09:43 How to Exposure Blend with Blend If Panel
10:51 Smart Objects with Exposure Blending
11:41 Why Use Photoshop for this?
13:46 Blend If Spotlight
16:44 Dynamic Blend If Masks
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