Greg Benz – Exposure Blending Master Class
Exposure Blending Master Class
Everything you need to know to get the most out of your RAW files
Climb the mountain one step at a time. Whether you have significant experience using luminosity masks to blend exposures, or have no idea what they are – this course is designed to help you to master the art of extracting incredible color and dynamic range from your RAW files. The course is built in clearly organized, bite-sized pieces. This gives beginners a clear place to start learning the basics, and more experienced students can skip right to the more advanced courses.
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Course Curriculum
- [1.1] Welcome and How to Get the Most out of this Course (2:28)
- [1.2] ***** RAW Files ***** (0:44)
- [1.3] Viewing this course offline: Teachable app for iOS
- [1.4] Additional content (links to related material outside this course)
- [1.5] Lumenzia v7 update (7:40)
- [1.6] Lumenzia v8 update
- [1.7] Lumenzia v9 update
- [2.1] Simple Blending with Layers and Layer Masks (12:31)
- [2.2] Selection Tools in Photoshop (20:00)
- [2.3] Creating luminosity selections with Lumenzia
- [2.4] How to view layers and masks (4:35)
- [3.1] Preparing RAW files for export to Photoshop (19:19)
- [3.2] PreBlend: Preparing Layers for Blending (2:46)
- [3.3] Blending: Painting through Luminosity Selections (18:50)
- [3.4] Finalizing the blend (11:25)
- [3.5] Recap: Key Buttons to Know in Lumenzia for Blending
- [3.6] Optional: Why Wacom Tablets are so great for luminosity masking
- [4.1] Alternative stacking workflows for people who do not use Lightroom or Lumenzia
- [4.2] Alternatives workflows for people who do not use Lumenzia
- [5.1] Why and when to multi-process the same RAW file (18:48)
- [6.1] Blending in a lighter exposure (8:30)
- [6.2.] Blend If (and why you generally shouldn’t use it for blending) (8:57)
- [6.3] Panos and focus stacking (workflow considerations when blending more than just exposure)
- [6.4] HDR (limitations and uses)
- [7.1] Differences in color processing in Photoshop vs Lightroom/ACR (30:50)
- [7.2] Lightroom/ACR tools for color
- [7.3] Photoshop tools for color (14:32)
- [8.1] How many exposures do you need? (11:24)
- [9.1] Bad tree edges (6:50)
- [9.2] Halos and other bad edges
- [9.3] Ghosting
- [9.4] The blend looks “flat” (Low contrast)
- [9.5] There is a red overlay on the image
- [9.6] Other issues
- [10.1] Horseshoe Bend Sky Replacement (48:29)
- [11.1] Unique Challenges for Landscapes (2:04)
- [11.2] Demo: Juniper Tree (single vs mult-processed RAW comparison) (42:59)
- [12.1] Unique Challenges for Cityscapes (1:56)
- [12.2] Demo: London [Skill Level: Advanced] (33:22)
- [13.1] Unique challenges for Interiors (10:57)
- [13.2] Demo 1: Office – Mixed color and a novel approach to blending [Skill Level: Advanced] (38:42)
- [13.3] Demo 2: Bedroom with mix of HDR and luminosity masking [Skill Level: Advanced] (62:37)
- Luminosity Masking Workflow (KEY SEGMENT) (28:53)
- LR/ACR presets (7:39)
- Keyboard shortcuts
Proof Content
Salepage: https://gregbenzphotography.teachable.com/p/exposure-blending-master-class
Archive: https://archive.fo/WyqHV
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