From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
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Layer stacking to blend lighter areas - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop
Layer stacking to blend lighter areas
- [Instructor] As we saw earlier in the course, there are often situations with night photography where shooting multiple exposures of a scene and then combining them in post-production provides additional flexibility. Both for solving problems, as well as for new creative opportunities. When photographing light trails in a scene, you often need to take multiple shots just to get the light trails that look the best. And sometimes you never get the perfect light trails all in a single shot, so you have to combine different images. For this type of project you can use layers in Photoshop and a simple Blend Mode trick to easily blend them all together. For this project we're going to be using these three images of the headlight trails on the bridge in the mountains. And as I go through these, notice that the landscape details are all perfectly aligned across all three shots. And that's because I had the camera on a tripod…
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