You are so good at blending and explaining these skills. Thanks for the awesome tutorial and the fantastic update to Raya Pro!

As always, this tutorial is a great help to my understanding of luminosity masks and blending images. Love your work Jimmy, and I'm glad to be a customer!

EXCELLENT!!! I have watched so many blending videos in the past two days but none were anywhere near what you have produced. Great camera, sound, editing and most of all presentation. Easy to follow, easy to understand, now I'm off to give your technique a go.

Jimmy, thanks for using my photographs to blend this interior and exterior shot. It looks great. Even better is the explaination on the preparation. That is where I've been struggling to blend naturally using Raya. I'm going to have a go this morning with the same images, and the do a complete edit. thanks for taking up my challenge !

Hey Jimmy, I finally downloaded Raya Pro. Thanks so much for the great tutorials and for taking the time to show us how to do things without Raya so we can learn what's going on "under the hood"!

Just used the non-rayapro technique explained in this video on an interior shoot of a conference room and really liked the resulting image. Thanks. I´ve seen other exposure blending tutorials but definitely this one is much more clear and easy to follow. Cheers.

This makes a lot more sense then what I was trying in Raya Pro 2 LOL. Thank you!

That's a great idea and technique to blend those layers in a more natural way. I sometimes definitely had those ghosted regions in my blends, so I started to fix them manually, but that's definitely way better and I will try it very soon. As always thanks for sharing Jimmy and for making such a great educational job in exposure blending.

Great to see another tutorial! Thanks!

Was looking for the non Raya Pro method and your method is perfect. Very well explained. Thanks a bunch!!!

Amazing technique! I suffer with blending exposures, but this changes everything ;) Thank you very much!

Thanks, this is a great technique, I tend to do plenty of bracketed photography and didn't really know how to blend them properly (outside of the usual HDR packages, which I'm trying to move away from).

Thank you Jimmy. 😊

Thanks Jimmy. Just downloaded it. Look forward to trying it out. You added some very handy features that people will find very useful.

game changing for me man! thanks a lot!

Awesome. Thank you very much for a great presentation with clear and valuable content

Nice work Jimmy, you're a life saver.

Dude... some incredible tips in this video! This is really changing how I blend HDRs now

This is very helpful, thank you!!

Great vid. Been looking to start doing some photo edit/critique video's myself, this was a little bit of inspiration.

thanks lovely Jimmy, you help us all

Thank you Jimmy, very helpful 👍🏻

You're amazing. Thank you Jimmy. 😊

Great stuff, Jimmy. This actually explained an issue I'd been having with my landscape shots and I can see where I was going wrong now. Kind of regretting not buying your video course when I bought Raya now! :)

Thanks a lot for this video about preparing for exposure blending! Just started to blend pictures with Raya Pro 2 but the results always looked flat. Used Nik Filters for tweaking then. Will try it again with this video in mind.

Thanks for the great tutorial.

Awesome tutorial.

The opportunity to shoot that beautiful space and he doesn't even take time to align the chairs. Killing me!

amazing. thank you very much !

Very very helpful, thank you so much !!!

You are amazing, thank you!

Thank you very much!

Nice tutorial, thank you

Your voice is so clear & impressive 👍

very helpful, Thank you

THIS IS AWESOME!

Thank you Jimmy for the great video. I just started with our EasyPanel and I get my first results as an "luminosity mask" beginner. I have the following question: I have for example from the bracket a 0EV, +1EV, -1EV picture loaded. Does it make sense: 1.) to create the "bright masks" from the +1EV image, select one and apply to the dark picture (-1EV). And the same, a dark mask from -1EV and apply to +1EV picture OR 2.) pick all masks from 0EV picture Thanks in advance. Uwe

Going to try that cat my nr1 problem with blending is the loose of contrast. What would you say the max difference in exposure can be for the blend to look natural and not flat?

Another great tutorial Jimmy. Do you ever use 'Calculations' to make selections and masks? Thanks.

Thank you!!!

Thanks for the great tutorial! Do you use flash at all for real estate or are you using primarily exposure blending?

thanks jimmy!

Really nice tip! Thanks :-)

Clear as always Jimmy

Thanks again, Jimmy! One thing, it seems when I bring the layers into photoshop as smart objects, it removes the ability to align the layers. Is there anyway around that? Thanks!

hola Jimmy, sorry for my english, i'll try to explain my problem. when i shoot interiors (using only ambient light) i can't blend windows whith the rest of room exposures nicely if i have the sun caming into my scene. i mean without a glow coming in behind the limits of the windows. For a basic correct inside exposure ( information in a dark zones) i need over exposure the exterior and too much light came in and apear the glow between the contourn of the window and the exterior scene. If i take my exposure just first that light start to blow the interior of the window will be too dark around the window for a natural blend...😅 i look all your interiors blends tutorials and there is not similar situations. Always beautiful places whith a lot of natural light (or shoots whith something powerfull that balance the big diference between both exposures...) and... you never has the sun in front of you ;) i will very happy if you can make a tutorial for extreme situations. maybe a not to light room whith a window whith a hard light exterior scene. you do a really great job and help us to grow every day in our work. tksvm.

wow great video!

This was really helpfull! 🙌🏼

Great stuff Jimmy, can these techniques like apply image be applied to Paintshop pro as photoshop well out of my price range at the moment ?

Great video! Do you have a recommendation on what type of lense to use for real estate photography, wide angle? I have one for my sony but I feel like it's not grabbing the full picture.

Found this via SLR Lounge on Facebook. Subscribed. A Geordie teaching Photoshop might just be the best thing ever. The only thing that would make it better was if you did a video while you were drunk lol.

Great!

ahhh thankss so much Jimmy, actually for how to blend architecture photo is my request right!..hhehe thanks so much Jimmy...waiting for next architecture blending again hehe :)

You're the best!

Hey Jimmy, thanks for your nice tutorials. What about sending you a raw file of a night scene/milkyway shot for challenge Jimmy?

Hello back, Jimmy!!!

Hey Jimmy, that looked awesome but i had trouble following your fast steps and didn't understand the apply image concept, would you be kind to indicate the tutorials that cover that.. in the mean time i'm gonna watch all of them starting with athe first 😊😊👍

Jimmy is the MAN

Thanks Jimmy! This is super helpful!!

Very informative... 😇

Hi Jimmy, great tutorial. I'm trying your technique before I jump into buying Raya Pro 2. When I try the blend, the dark colors for the window look completely washed up. And when I click the smart object to open and adjust the file in camera raw, it opens a new window with the file, so I can't adjust it. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Jimmy! Thx for new video! My translation of one of your recent video is still most popular on my channel. :) So I want to ask - if I need do blending for 360° panos, what can you recommend? I usually have about 13 bracketed shots for every pano in my tour. And they are equirectangular projections after stich. So I need fast enough method without hand-painting masks. I tried maaaany different methods and for now stopped on SNS-HDR software.

Thanks Jimmy! Good to see you with new content. Did you say Raya Pro 2.0 will be released next week for CC users?

I like it

hi Jimmy! :) what editing tablet do you use? Do you recommend it/ have you upgraded since this video? :) Thank you!!

Can you do an updated version of this? Also, could this workflow work for flash and ambient blending?

simply beautiful; there is a learning curve , but the results are much cleaner than 1 click hdr software; it shows when you print; again, this is a tool for professional work, not for getting likes on social media

Hi thanks for the tutorial.I just have an issue,I lose lot of contrast when doing the inverted mask in the bright picture.Can you help,I did something wrong?P.s I don't use your software just doing the mask in photoshop.Thanks.

How can I make white elements of interior in this scene whiter than it is in your final image? Let me explain the problem sometimes I face a situation when large areas inside are pure white (and I want them to stay very bright in the final image + these areas require white balance setting different from exterior areas visible through the windows. I deal with this issue using clipping masks and editing these masks manually, but it is not ideal approach. Once I submitted the set of images illustrating the problem for your 'challenge' but didn't get any response

Wow, what was the height of the ceilings you had in your apartment in Korea?

Hi Jimmy, I am trying to do this with your Raya 3.0, using the Precision M panel in place of the Blend panel but when trying to emulate you almost step by step, the mask gets applied to the wrong layer (the base rather than dark layer, even though dark was selected while using the Auto Dark) and in I also still wind up with ghosting artifacts, regardless of my efforts in Smart Object Camera Raw. Is is possible to redo this video using Raya 3.0? Interiors blending is super critical to me. It's the main reason I purchased the software. Thank you.

Quick question: would it not be more efficient to use Calculations to generate masks rather than multiple applications of Apply Image?

Helloooooo????? ....anything about extreme lights situations..? Can your technique help us? it will be helpfully for a lot of people Believe me. Tks

This only works for me when I click Invert on when I "Apply Image" to the mask....kinda weird I'm sure I'll figure out why

Great work Jimmy - quick question, once you have blended the 3 images I assume you move into effects, colours etc to really make the image pop. Would you be able to do an extension to this and previous examples of the next phase before print perhaps ? Thanks again keep them coming.

Thanks for RP Jimmy. I do my pre ps work in LR and cannot bring the images directly into acr. so i put them into ps via "edit in ps as objects". this worked yesterday. Today I only have 2 images to blend, a night flash exposure of a bedroom and the no light version of the window view. First; is it possible to merge the no lights window version (which has white separators in the windows) at all and keep the separators white? i bought the two images into ps as objects, stacked them and then tried an "autoblend dark" but got the error "the command "merge visible " is not currently available." i made the flash shot invisible which the dark shot was the only one visible. Any ideas? thanks, Kirt

Hi, are you shooting the 3 exposures at +/-2 or +/-1 and even?

Is this something that can be automated for batch?

is this support last version PS?

Awesome results, but waaaay over my head as a brand new Raya Pro 5 user. I'm sure this is not the first tutorial I should watch, correct? Ha - I did not want to start too basic but want to end up doing what you have done here with confidence. Jimmy, which is the very first tutorial I should watch if I am an experienced PS user and shooting real esate like the above BUT brand new to Raya Pro (already installed in the latest PS 2020 for Mac and ready to go)? Or, is there simply no shortcut - watch them all? THANKS for creating this obviously wonderful set of tools!

Hello Mr jimmy, i have purchases Raya Pro 5 & i wish to take tutorials on Blending from you. Please help

Photomatix works best for me

WOW, is this process also possible in the new RAYO 5.0? Guess i have to learn it, was so smooth, is it possible with nearly all interier pictures?

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thanks Jimmy! Can i ask what tablet do you use?

Hey Jimmy thanks for this. I have Adobe CC but when I follow your masking steps, and I click on the mask, nothing happens, it doesn't show the mask like I see in your tutorial. When I follow all the way through, the results look incomplete. I think I'm missing something here, perhaps a setting?

Will easy panels work with m1 silicon?

Will Raya pro work with silicon?

There is one flaw in your example and it explains why i cannot produce the same quality editing...when you are explaining how to do this procedure without that plug in you middle layer that WAS initially your underexposed shot is now over exposed because you edited it in RAW and did not revert back to initial underexposed image...I hope that makes sense what i just wrote.

So PS doesn't allow me to stack the Smart Objects (that I open from Camera Raw). Any solution to do it without Raya Pro?

Hello Jimmy, i have the raya pro since the 1. Now i want to buy only the, Mastering Raya Pro 2.0 Course. But i can´t. There is any sale price for the course only? Thanks.

Hi, thanks for another great video :) For still scene your tutorial are great, but the issue still remain with scene with items that are moving, even just a little, like trees ecc. In these cases merging image create some king of ghosting, or strange borders to leaves and branches... how do you manage in this case? I've seen an old video from you, but the result it's just not acceptable for high level photography or to sell at big resolution :) Thanks!!!

What about in Raya Pro 5.0? Where there are no "Auto Blend" buttons?

Hey Jimmy, I have Raya Pro 3.0, when I try to use Auto Bright I get this message (The command "invert" is not currently available)

Hi Jimmy! Pardon me! If I buy Raya Pro 2.0, is it possible for 3 users to use it on 3 different machines?

my a7s does this in camera. Is there any difference?

you could have simply fixed the tree and boardwalk by using a greyish brush rather than completely black...I think the sky looks better darker blue - looks too washed out using your technique - as I said you could have easily fixed the tree and boardwalk by adjusting the brush from dark black to a lighter grey on the mask layer

Am I the only one who's image comes out looking like trash after following his steps without Ryapro?

Great!