Craig Ozancin

There are a couple channels that come to mind. This first is by Jimmy McIntyre who does a lot of landscape photography and accatioal architectural/Realestate photography. :
https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyMcIntyre
Jimmy also has a number of downloadable courses for sale on Exposure Blending.
 
The second is by Anthony Turnham who has two channels. He is a big Luminar Neo fan. On his architectural photography channel he has a number of videos showing exposure blending for high end realestate clients,
https://www.youtube.com/@archiphoto
 
You can also find additional content by searching for Exaposure blending.
 
Hope this helps.

This is not my workflow. It common use amongst a growing number of high-end real estate and landscape photographers and retouches.
Sure, an HDR merge is faster and simpler. It is also considered inferior to what you can achieve with exposure blending. With HDR you are limited by the engine on how the blend is made. Exposure blending gives you full control of the blend including where and what gets blended. You can full control ghosting, color corrections and more during the blend process.
In the case of real estate photographers, HDR is often used for low-end jobs where you go in, do a shoot in 15 - 30 minutes shoot, do a 5-10 minute retouch and send the results to the customer. Higher end jobs for example want the absolute best images. This includes many multi million-dollar listings. The difference you gain with exposure blending can mean the difference when an agent is picking a photographer for a job.

I did a quick check on my Windows system. It looks great. It feels natural and intuitive.
Thanks for the work on this.
 
Craig

I did a quick check on my Windows system. It looks great. It feels natural and intuitive.
Thanks for the work on this.
 
Craig

I did a quick check on my Windows system. It looks great. It feels natural and intuitive.
Thanks for the work on this.
 
Craig

That wold give the most consistent and predictable user experience. It also give the easiest method (IMHO) to the extended menu without needing the keyboard.

That wold give the most consistent and predictable user experience. It also give the easiest method (IMHO) to the extended menu without needing the keyboard.

If I may share my insight after using latest beta... 🙂
Maybe lets revert to previous method of assigning mask and keep right click for opening additional menu:
- left click on the mask button = mask
- alt + left click on the mask button = empty mask
- right click = opens menu with additional options
I have a filling that this may be more obvious solution, right click is usually for opening additional context menu. And previous behaviour of adding mask/empty mask was familiar for a lot of users and was fast for only adding mask/empty mask without the need for opening additional menu. Therefore no functionality will be removed, like alt + click for empty mask but new functionality will be added, like right click for additional options.
Thanks for considering it and being open to all users suggestions 🙂

I can live with this option.
Definitely need a tooltip.

I can live with this option.
Definitely need a tooltip.

Adding an arrow in the corner and supporting long-click and double-click would match it to the toolbar icons with menus behind them, but in my opinion, a right-click should work on those too...

I second this idea. For those of us who use the live masks, having to always go to the menus becomes a pain point. This idea would really support the widest range of use cases.
In addition, this seems a stronger UI friendly approach. As mentioned, long mouse clicks are already supported for a very long time.

I have been playing with this. It is a feature that has been needed for some time in the retouching arena smoothing colors in frequency-separation. 
I have found a discrepancy remembering state when switching from paint mixer brush to brush and then back. While the auto-load-brush checkbox remembers it's last state, the auto-clean-brush checkbox.
I am testing 2.1.0.1714 on Windows 11.

Apps: Photo (and Photo Persona in Publisher)
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
A new option available in the context toolbar options of the paint mixer brush to auto-clean the brush after every stroke.

On a side note, this lad managed to spill some red punch on his sweater just before the the shoot. I was able to remove the red by using a pixel layer with the blend mode set to color, select the color from and unaffected area and point the red out. I then used a curve set to soft light and painted white over the wet areas that where showing darker.

On a side note, this lad managed to spill some red punch on his sweater just before the the shoot. I was able to remove the red by using a pixel layer with the blend mode set to color, select the color from and unaffected area and point the red out. I then used a curve set to soft light and painted white over the wet areas that where showing darker.

Also, if you are using a blank layer, make sure that current and below are selected. The default is current layer.