#GIMP TUTORIAL HOW TO#

In the Layers dialog, click on the anchor button ( ) to anchor the floating image.

In the Layers dialog, make sure the new layer is selected, then go to the bottom image window and paste ( Ctrl+V). Select all and copy ( Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C). Go to the image that is going to be on top. Open the Layers dialog ( Ctrl+L) and click on the new layer button ( ) to create a new layer. Go the image that is going to be on the bottom. Also, the top image is the composition I want anyway, and I’ll have less painting to do that way. I’m going to have to move the bottom image until the arch is aligned as best I can get it. The reason is because I hand-held the shots, and they are far from aligned. In this case I have decided to put the lighter image on top and the darker one on the bottom. The first decision is which one goes on top. I am going to sandwich these on different layers and then combine them with a layer mask. Here are the two exposures, loaded into GIMP. Finally, we apply a layer mask to the this layer which makes parts of the image transparent that we want to show through from below. The basic technique is to create a layer above the image that contains the other exposure of the same scene. I adapted it for GIMP from a Photoshop tutorial on the photography web site (great web site BTW, I recommend it). Giving credit where credit is due: I did not come up with this method. If you have only one image that needs exposure adjustment, you might look at using the “digital” neutral density filter or the contrast masking technique. between the images), especially at or near the “seams” of the blend, it will make the blend more difficult. If the scene has changed too much (trees blowing, waves, people or cars moving, etc.

the scenes are not too different at the boundaries of the blend.

had the camera mounted on a tripod (not strictly necessary, but helps greatly in aligning the images),.

(obviously) have shot two different exposures that would be pleasing to combine,.

#GIMP TUTORIAL HOW TO#

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to do blend two different exposures of the same scene that you would like to combine to get the best parts of both images. Jeschke and may not be used without permission of the author. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Eric R.

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