Do you want to learn how I combine the exposure for my photo? Do you want to see how I use luminance masks to do so? Thank this tutorial series is for you.

Introducing my first ever tutorial video series “Master exposure blending“. In this video series I focus on how to combine different exposures using blending and HDR tonemaping. I explain how I prepare my photos in Lightroom, how to use layers and layer masks, how to created and use luminance masks and also how to blend with them. I also cover how I use Oloneo Photoengine and Photomatix to make the work quicker and how to blend panoramic images.

Contents

The series includes over 2 hours of video, covering these toppics

1. Welcome
2. Preparing brackets in Lightroom
3. Working with layers and layer masks
4. Luminance masks explained
5. Creating luminance masks
6. Blending two exposures
7. Blending multiple exposures
8. Using Oloneo Photoengine
9. Using Photomatix Pro
10. Blending panoramatic photos
11. Adding glow

To follow my work with luminance masks you will need a copy of any version of Photoshop. For the specific videos, I also suggest Ligtroom, as I think its the best program for photo organisation (but of course you can follow the blending videos without it). In the videos on Oloneo Photoengine and Photomatix Pro I use the respective software. In the video on Panorama blending I also use PTgui.

Additionally you will receive all the RAW files I’m using (28 in total), so you can try all the edits also for yourself.

The total download size is 1.3gb for the video files (all in 720p) and 650mb for the RAW images.

Introduction

Here you can see the welcome video, that also describes all that I will show you in this tutorial series

Sample

Here you can see the video on Adding glow. Please note, that I’m not a native English speaker.

Order

The whole tutorial can be ordered for 49 USD and can be immediately downloaded.

Sample photos

Here you can see the photos I work on in this video series. You have all the needed raw files in the download.

Affiliates

For all those of you who have your own page, and would like to promote my tutorial and also have a profit on every copy you sell, you can join my Affiliate program. The affiliate cut is 20% on every sale.

If you have any problems with the purchase or with the download, please contact me under miroslav.petrasko@hdrshooter.com

Master Exposure Blending – Free HDR tutorial

In this video series, I focus on how to combine different exposures using blending and HDR tone mapping. I explain how I prepare my photos in Lightroom, how to use layers and layer masks, how to create and use luminance masks, and also how to blend with them. I also cover how I use Oloneo Photoengine and Photomatix to make the work quicker and how to blend panoramic images.

Please note. As this series was first released a few years ago, some of the used software is already out of date. But the techniques shown are still valid, and most of them I use to this day.

The tutorial is completely free, but please don’t reupload the files to video-sharing sites. Please link to this blog post.

You can also find the whole playlist on Youtube here.

Photos used

Here you can see the photos I work on in this video series. You have all the needed raw files in the download.

I’ve been living in Bratislava for quite a few years now, but this was the first time I seen this bastion without a scaffolding on it. Now just to find out if one can get on top of it :). Btw. the lighting on this whole street is a little strange. The cathedral lights are a bluish white, the wall lights are green, the street lamps are yellow and the bridge I was standing on has blue lights under it. I wonder who selected the lights there :)

This is a HDR from 5 exposures created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

Another nice city view. This time its from Edinburgh in Scotland, taken around a year ago.

This is a HDR from 2 exposures created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.