From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
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Combine exposures with a layer mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
Combine exposures with a layer mask
- [Narrator] With the layers aligned for this scene we'll continue working on this composite and refine it with a combination of blending modes and a layer mask. I'm going to start off by turning off the visibility for the top layer Summit01, and point out that I've already done some preparation work to get this set up for this stage. And I've done that by setting the blend mode for all of the three bottom layers here to lighten. And I did that using the same technique that we saw earlier in the course with the image of the car headlight trails on the mountain bridge. And this just does a really good job at blending together all of those lighter elements. It looks great for the road and the rocks, however the sky looks a bit like Morse Code so we do need to fix that. I'm going to click on the Summit01 layer to turn it back on, and click its eye icon. We need to bring in this good sky. And to do that we need to make an…
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