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I think I know what amandafrank is getting at. I have not used Affinity, but am researching photoshop alternatives and I think Affinity is going to be the one. I've been looking at tutorial videos as part of my decision making. As an enthusiast with "prosumer" gear, I think Afffinity will do everything I need and more! What I have been wondering and I think Amanda is too, is if you can take two photos of an identical scene and merge them, exclusively using the exposure from one area of one photo, and the other area of the second. Classic example bright sky and darker foreground. I did watch some of the layering tutorials, but it looks like the layering function lets you "average" the two images, rather than selecting components of each and merging them. The average darkens the sky a little and brightens the foreground a little. What I'd like to know is how to take a picture where the sky is almost a white out with well exposed foreground, and then use the sky from and exposure where the the foreground is almost blacked out/shadow. Thanks!