TKActions V6: FAST Exposure Blending

[@Randyrocker1]

Displaying how to tackle various TK functions in short educational videos is a great way to showcase the magic of the TK panels. Thanks for your presentation.

[@jeffstasney82]

Great teaching as usual. Thanks for providing useful examples of using the new TK Panel features! Really helpful.

[@juancorderoxuancor738]

Thank you very much for sharing all your knowledge. I've learnt a lot not only with this channel but with your video tutorials from your page. My English is not that good but I can follow your explanations. You are a really didactic teacher.

[@bonniepryce5031]

Thank you for this great (as always) tutorial. I have just started the V6 video series and this short video has inspired me to get through them and practice the techniques. I enjoy everyone of your instructional videos and find them immeasureably helpful and so easy to understand

[@SeanBagshaw]

Thanks for the great feedback Bonnie! So glad to be of help. :-)

[@davekarp7590]

Sean, this is great, can’t wait to try this out, thanks for all your great tips.

[@SeanBagshaw]

Let me know how it goes for you Dave!

[@ajhertel]

Great video! Your teaching style is so easy to understand and follow along.

[@SeanBagshaw]

Thanks Andrew! It is good feedback to know that the tutorials are easy to follow. That's always the goal but it can be a challenge to keep it clear.

[@richardbatcheldor9225]

Thanks for being a good teacher. Good teachers inspire.

[@adamaj74]

Great video, Sean. Keep up the good work!

[@TimHorne]

WOW, by the way, did I say WOW?!?! Can't wait to have time to try some of this. Thank you for the video and can't wait to see the next series!

[@xieyony]

Thanks for this useful tutorial. Great job Sean

[@PatriciaDavidsonPhotography]

Thanks for the great tutorial Sean! I can't wait to try this as I've just upgraded recently. Enjoy your trip!

[@stevepowell7106]

Very helpful and well explained thanks Sean

[@SalvadorMarcoArtist]

Thanks Sean. Have a good trip!

[@davidroberts5535]

Awesome tip, very helpful. Thanks and keep these tips coming!! It would be great in all your spare time to create a "mini" extending dynamic range course using newer techniques with the newer TK panel.

[@MaciejMarkiewicz]

Have a great photo adventure in the Feroes Sean! I will be impatient to see the images :) I will go back there again this year but still only in a few weeks

[@SeanBagshaw]

Thanks Maciej! I’m really looking forward to this trip! We’ll have to compare stories later.

[@mibreit-photo]

That splitview technique is really nice. Haven't thought about using it to display the mask on one side and the image on the other side yet. TK-Actions really seem to have added a lot of new features

[@paulveronese1791]

Thank you Master! have a nice trip.

[@TrevorMcGrathPhotography]

Thanks God for Tony Kuyper and Sean Bagshaw

[@abhijitsingh2433]

Indeed a nice blending technique which I never used in the v6 panel in fact was not even aware about it and always blended manually so thanks for this short tutorial. Although I always struggle to blend the exposures properly when i use focus stacking at the same time. Any hidden trick in the v6 panel that can address it? Thanks

[@SeanBagshaw]

The trick is to adjust the raw files to get the exposure values to match as closely as possible so the focus blend and exposure blend happen simultaneously. I show this in my latest Complete Workflow tutorial called Umpqua Autumn.

[@simonlynch6080]

Thanks Sean...very helpful...will your new tutorial cover as much as previous advanced blending tutorials? Cheers.

[@Gabrielmp41]

Ey Sean! Here a spanish fan of your work. Pls! Could you do another tutorial with the TK8 panel? Thanks you!

[@seamydobbsno1]

Hey Sean, really appreciate all your tips and tutorials. As a learner its hard to differentiate when to Exposure blend. It would be really helpful if you could demonstrate the possibilities of a single exposure and when not to exposure blend. I know such a video might not be the best marketing tool but it would really help clear up some confusion. Thanks again!!

[@SeanBagshaw]

Hi Seamus! I'll add that to my idea list. I do cover those concepts in a few of my Photoshop courses, but I don't think I've really gone into here on KZbin.

[@seamydobbsno1]

@@SeanBagshaw Thanks Sean!!

[@tonylosternau8110]

what an excellent video...thx you kindly

[@ttietsch]

Hi Sean, do you use in generell exposure blending techniques or are there situations where you use graduated neutral density filters? From my understanding, exposure blending generates at least the same if not even better results in avoiding addtional glass which brings color shifts to each image. Regars, Tobias.

[@SeanBagshaw]

Hi Tobias. I haven't used a graduated ND filter in almost 10 years. Even though it requires more work in post I find that the results are far better. In addition to not having additional layers of glass, you also don't have a straight dark line across the image. The exposure can be blended however and wherever needed to accomplish a totally natural and balanced looking image.

[@ttietsch]

Hi Sean, thank you for your clear statement about this topic. I'm still wondering why so many youtube photographers pray on using GNDs to be more near the real image. Anyway you made my decission clear and I love how you work on images. Maybe you can make a video once with demonstrating how you take pictures and which filters you use. For me that would be very interessting too. Thanks, Tobias.

[@rydaug79]

Did you shoot with the Canon 16-35mm 2.8 II lens on that 3rd example? I can tell by that sunstar. I shoot Nikon but I have yet to see a better sunstar than the one that that lens produces. I wish they put 7 blade diaphragms in most wide angle lenses. 9:50

[@SeanBagshaw]

Nailed it! 👏😁

[@williamli7906]

Hi Sean: Graet video! Quick question: when open as smart object, how do I do auto align? Thanks.

[@SeanBagshaw]

It isn't possible to auto align smart objects, unfortunately.

[@bob.5371]

As Always, great stuff. That said, could bracketing have the same result? Maybe not to the extent as shown in your video, but bracketing I thing would be an option.

[@SeanBagshaw]

Hi Bo...not sure what you are referring to when you say "bracketing". All of the examples in this video are blended using two or more bracketed exposures. Maybe we aren't using the term bracketing in the same way?

[@williamli7906]

Hi Sean: I tried your very first method. I did exactly you described in the video step by step. However, as soon as I applied the mask (about 4:00 to 4:30 time frame), the entire picture turned into very strange looking, like ghost look. What did I do wrong?

[@SeanBagshaw]

Hi William. It sounds like you applied the luminosity selection to the pixel layer and not the mask.

[@williamli7906]

@@SeanBagshaw That might be the case. However I follow each step exactly from you video. How did it happen and how to correct it? Thanks.

[@stefanobellini6464]

Hello Sean my name is Stefano and I am writing from Italy. I bought tk v6 about a year and a half ago. Wonderful tool .. I follow you for a while now and I see your masterpieces. I have 2 questions to bring, I hope not to ask too much. 1: Regarding the multi-exposure at night in a context urban, is there an automatic way to merge the various shots? I saw tutorials with other tools where I was automatically merged 6/7 shots with different exposures. The result was a well-balanced image between lights and shadows. 2: Is it possible to make a blending of 2/3 exposures in focus stacking? The most exposed will be the first floor to bring out the details of the shadows and at the same time with its close focus and for the other two with the two exposures (average and underexposed) with the focus on infinity. It would be possible ? Sorry for the kilometer message. I salute you and enjoy your next adventures ... Congratulations.

[@rickhamill1365]

Hello, Sean: Just watched your tutorial onTKActions V6: FAST Exposure Blending. I am in TK7. After running "Composite" on the lighter exposure, you mention that the layer mask should appear in the white box next to the darker exposure. The mask does not show when I follow the same steps; the box remains solid white. What am I doing wrong? I'm running PS CC V21.2.4. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Rick

[@mnsesq]

I am having the same issue.

[@rickhamill1365]

@@mnsesq hi, Marie. My query was answered by Tony Kuyper. I don’t have the answer handy. However, you might contact Tony directly. He is always responsive. Cheers, Rick.

[@weschilton]

Nice!

[@jinwu3262]

It is great! Instead of painting the mask manually, it is so convenient! I am surprised this video isn't in the paid tutorial.

[@SeanBagshaw]

It will be in future editions. New ideas and approaches always come along, especially as the panel evolves.

[@jinwu3262]

Looking forward to watching them soon! Thanks for your and Tony's hard work!

[@chrisdeantonio1498]

What about layer alignment? Is there a way to perform an "align layers" type operation with Smart Objects or do you have to do it manually?

[@SeanBagshaw]

You have to align manually. Smart objects don't allow any sort of pixel altering transformations...which the auto align feature does.

[@mirko2481]

doesent work the same for me with the lumonisity mask the black brish paints over the white and ruins everything its too complicated

[@DiviPhotos]

cool