Get rid of exposure blending halos once and for all.

Halos are one of the most common and painful problems with exposure blending. These are the dark or light little lines along high contrast edges of buildings, trees, and mountains. You might ignore them if you only want to upload an image to Facebook. But they become a serious problem if you want print the image or even just use it as a high resolution background on your computer.
There are several ways to avoid them. But even when you master all the tricks, there will still likely be times when you run into halos. It's hard to get the perfect mask every time. It's easy to miss halos initially when you aren't looking for them. And its even easier to make some mistake when you're working quickly.
Rather than start over or use painful workarounds like cloning, there's a simple new features in Lumenzia v8's "Edge" button that will help you quickly and cleanly fix most halos.
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[@alisonmeier5826]

Yet another complete gem from you, Greg. You have rapidly become my go-to guru for all things Photoshop. Also enjoying your doge and burn course, which is an invaluable way of learning how to best use the Lumenzia add-on.

[@KaReEdCa]

Wow!!! This was game changing!!! I've always hated my results because of this halo effect.

[@gregbenzphotography]

Halos, the worst.

[@johnalvarez332]

Greg, thank you for that explanation. I wondered how I could use the Edge function in Lumenzia to remove halos. Now I know! I appreciate your videos and especially your courses on exposure blending and dodging and burning.

[@gregbenzphotography]

No problem. If you’re in my dodging course, there’s another demo of how you can use it for dodging halos in the final video for the sea stack image.

[@johnalvarez332]

@@gregbenzphotography I saw that in the course. Admittedly, I didn't understand the technique well enough at the time to apply it well. Now, thanks to the current video, I get it. Learning is both fun and challenging! Thanks again for your guidance.

[@zachspross6502]

Always great info Greg. I truly appreciate what you do with the software and these awesome tutorials helping us to know what we can do with the software! My ultimate goal with lumenzia is to be able to blend exposures of interiors without using the pen tool to mask in windows. For instance when we do our exposure bracketing usually the ambient exposure is great and the -2 stop exposure has the windows exposure perfect. You’re able to easily use like a light2 mask on the -2ev exposure to select only the details in the windows, but when I mask it in the exposure from the windows of the layer below(ambient layer) doesn’t allow me to get all the detail out of the -2ev layer. And also it just ends up looking like very crunchy HDR. I know you’ve done interior videos before but you made it look more architectural vs how my realtors want it(basically super strong window pull) so if you ever have time to make a video for this, or you can think of a way for me to get great exposure blending using this method, please let me know. Again, thank you for all of your hard work with this software and I’ll be a user and supporter for life!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thanks for the feedback. Please feel free to email me if you want to discuss specifics on that.

[@J5388T]

I never fail to learn something useful from your video's Greg! Thank you.

[@AlessandroCorinti]

Thank you Greg! I think it would be interesting to see how to remove lens fringe around border, especially when the lens correction tool do not work as expected, from a single exposure. Thanks again and excellent work with the dodge and burning course!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Here you go... How to Remove Chromatic Aberration in Photoshop kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKWrYX2Xj9iAipo

[@uhligsu]

Thanks a lot. I always learn so much from your tutorials.

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you.

[@KGi4]

Exelent technique... I will bring in to workflow for sure 👌thank you for sharing ❤️✨🙏

[@yvesgauvreau2196]

Excellent presentation as usual. I wonder if it wouldn't be useful for the viewer that you tell us how make the image "slide" as you do here?

[@gregbenzphotography]

Which time point?

[@yvesgauvreau2196]

@@gregbenzphotography you do this all the time while your correcting the halos and you're zoomed in. You go across the zoomed image by ...

[@gregbenzphotography]

Oh, just hold the to temporarily activate the hand tool, then click and drag with the mouse to slide around.

[@vijaym2752]

Hi Greg and fellow knowledge seekers. This may be late in context to posting date. However can this problem be not solved with either of (1) Selection > modify > border followed by blurring that portion (1) Selection > modify > contract. Followed by Selection > Modify > feather (2) Layer Mask Properties > Feather the edges. Please revert as convenient. Thanks.

[@metrixc]

Well explained as always! Brgrds, Thomas

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you!

[@mattemond777]

Luminocity masks are rarely 100% black and 100% white. Would using this technique work on a more typical luminosity mask?

[@gregbenzphotography]

Yes, but masking technique is always important. There are many ways to make a poor quality mask.

[@gatsby498]

Great as always!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you.

[@carowley01]

I am not sure why you contract the selection by 1px if you have the sky selected which is what you are trying to expand to cover the halo. Why not expand by 1 px?

[@gregbenzphotography]

The nature of the overall process spreads the edge (feathering, etc), so some offset is required here. Easiest way to work is to try and then adjust by 1 pixel at a time if your first guess isn’t perfect.

[@carowley01]

@@gregbenzphotography Is it also that the Lumenzia Edge function is finding the edge and so you are contracting (or expanding) just that edge and not the whole sky selection? E.g. without finding the edge perhaps you would try to expand the sky selection into the halo area? (Thanks for the prompt response!)

[@dr.sandipmehta973]

If there is one more normal exposure layer in between these dark and bright layers this problem will not arise.