John Naughton Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Have been doing a fair amount of Nightscape Astro photography where I need to shoot two photos for the same shot, one exposure for the foreground and one exposure for the sky. I have been cutting and pasting from one photo to the other, is there a better process for this? Thank you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 If you load the two images as layers you can mask one. Maybe look at exposure blending videos. Quite a few ways to do it so detail here might confuse you. John Naughton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 You can use an APhoto stacking option, e.g. Stack, Astrophotography or HRD merge. Or, for a more manual adjustment you can use blend modes & blend range curves, aside the already mentioned masking option. John Naughton 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Naughton Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 16 hours ago, RichardMH said: If you load the two images as layers you can mask one. Maybe look at exposure blending videos. Quite a few ways to do it so detail here might confuse you. Thank you for the guidance and the Links! I will try this over the next few days and advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Naughton Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 15 hours ago, thomaso said: You can use an APhoto stacking option, e.g. Stack, Astrophotography or HRD merge. Or, for a more manual adjustment you can use blend modes & blend range curves, aside the already mentioned masking option. Appreciate the advise, I will be working thru masking option, astro stack, and HDR merge options over the next few days and will advise how it went. I need to study the blend modes & blend range curves to understand them better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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