Surely one of the best tutorials for learning Exposure Blending, love Jimmy's Art of Photography course also.

You are the best Jimmy. I never get tired of watching your videos even when I already know what you are explaining.

This is an amazing tool Jimmy! I've been using Lr for a few years and am finally starting to use Ps. I had to watch some parts a couple times, but was able to follow along using your sample images. You're an excellent and patient teacher. Thanks for the Easy Panel and your vid. I subscribed and am looking forward to watching other vids you've made.

Thank you for this amazing tutorial. I feel I can finally start using luminosity masks. Subscribed and and will be going through your content, again, thank you.

Really looking forward to this Jimmy. I struggle to understand Luminosity Masks - so sure this will be of great help. Thank you

I am a 100% self taught photographer and I have found my 10+ year journey to be a series of 'lightbulb moments' but these lightbulbs only turn on when I'm ready for them. I have visited this topic, and this particular video, in the past but put it all in the too hard basket. Lately I have found myself wanting to revisit luminosity masking but I was still struggling... until today. After watching this again, the 'lightbulb' has turned on big time and it all makes perfect sense. I am now excited for the next part of my photographic journey and I would like to say a HUGE thankyou for sharing your knowledge.

This is an awesome video for beginners! I downloaded some luminosity mask panels and I have no idea how to use them. Now I understand much more about this! Thank you so much!

Jimmy, you are the best! Thank you for the comprehensive guide!

You are a great teacher!! Thank you!

What a fabulous tutorial. I have always been mystified by luminosity masks and afraid to even try them, but you really broke it down in an understandable fashion. Will definitely be looking at your software! Thank you.

Super useful tutorial and tools, thank you very much for taking the time to share it.

Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial. Very helpful.

Thank you for the informative tutorial. Will be using for my future projects.

Amazing video. Very well conveyed and informative! I now have the confidence to try this myself.

Jimmy. Thank you so much for doing this video. I downloaded the easy panel a while a go, but never was happy using it. This video has explained so much on how to use it. Time to experiment. 👍🏻

The man is back !

Thank you so much Jimmy for your nice tutorials! I love your channel!

Thanks Jim, your tutorials are excellent.

Awesome Tutorial. I Love your teaching style!.

Just ordered Raya Pro 4 plus the course. A friend recommended your approach for Astro. I’m looking forward to trying it on some bracketed landscapes from the last. Thought I’d check you out first and you’ve sold me within the first couple of minutes of your video, just your easy way of explaining.

Just giving the easy panel a test drive... this along with your helpful videos has opened up a new world! Thank you :)

Ok, you convinced me, i bought the raya pro 4.0 and the exposure blending course!

brilliant Jimmy. I get it now, and I understand how I can use this in some of my own images. I do quite a bit of night time city scapes and your last example makes it clear how to improve images there. Also I do lots of landscapes and like to blend skies, so your first example is very clear and helpful. up and running - off we go, thanks

This was incredibly helpful!

Fantastic tutorial Jimmy. I was struggeling with LM so much that i would stop using it. But this is such a good explanation i continue! Yes I do!

Super, super helpful Jimmy! Thank you!

Great tutorial Jimmy, and fantastic tool thank you!

This is amazing, Thank you Jimmy.

I've today subscribed to your channel and it's fantastic. I'm quite new to photoshop and it's really exciting to see what can be done with this software. In the short time I've been using PS I have realised that it's going to take me some time to learn what's possible, it is however really enjoyable and it will help me enormously with my photography editing. Looking forward to watching all of your videos. As others have said you are a very good teacher and your videos are enjoyable as much as they are informative. Thanks for sharing what you know, it is appreciated.

It's finally clicked! :-) I am up and running ! Many thanks Jimmy

you are back, nice to see you that post video again

Thanks for the much needed tutorial

thanks Jim and more tutorials on easy panel landscape, thanks very much

Great Tutorial full of helpful information

Thank you sooooooooo much for sharing such priceless tutorial

superb tut Jimmy

great video! and i stopped at 14:07 and ran to your page and bought the plugin!! Thanks!!

Love this! I love to Shoot Landscapes and this will make my life much easier :) Thank you Jimmy!

Great lesson, thanks!

Brilliant Jimmy!

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. I couldn't understand luminosity mask until I watched your video. You are a wonderful teacher!!! Thanks!!!

I have to agree with Jimmy about getting lost if you haven’t played with masks n layers for a bit in photoshop. I was one that got totally lost when 1st trying to follow or understand Jimmy, thinking this was all to hard & a little disheartened. Once you play with basic layer masks in PS for a while Jimmys layermask panel / workflow WILL fall into place. Thanks Jimmy for this video. I’ll be purchasing the full panel soon.

Hi Jimmy. I like this tutorial - thanks. I have been thinking about the question you pose at around 14'25" relating to the ability within PS to make multiple passes of the brush to reinforce the effect of brushing in the selection. In my experience, this is related to relative "strength" of the selection made from the luminosity masks. In other words, if is use an LM where there is a sunset, with lots of highlights in the sky but also a good deal of darkening sky, and very heavy shadows in the foreground for instance, I find I can quickly recover the highlights with one pass of the brush and further passes don't have any impact, but that the darker sky will continue to be affected with multiple passes irrespective of the flow setting on my brush. I think of this almost like the LM's degrees of greyness being the driver of this behaviour - where my LM starts off the most white (in the channels panel rather than in the normal layer mask - this is the key), the brush has an instant effect, but as the degree of greyness (in the mask) increases across the sky, more brush strokes are needed as the pixels are covered by grey. It's like the LM is a neutral density filter. As the grey on the mask darkens, it becomes harder and harder for me to brush away the mask with my white brush but I will still be able to do it for any selection that is anything other than black on the LM (in the channels panel) as when the selection is loaded into the layer, only those pixels which are 100% black in the original LM will be the ones in the selection. This hypothesis is supported by your tip in the tutorial to pick a mask that is going to do a good job of grading the transitions - these are the masks with the greatest control, but some care is still needed and in some cases, with an LM that was a bit less contrasty to start with, there may be a need for some careful brush work after the selection has been deactivated. LMs are fantastic, and this tutorial is one of the best - thanks for your work.

Great video!

Amazing tool!

superb tutorial..

wow wow wow. Thank you sir!

This man is my hero

awesome!. you are a great teacher.. ps. what is the box below the imac? thanks

Great video once again, I am using the photoshop cs5 and not able to install the easy pannel , is there any work around ?

I can't tell you how many shitty exposure blending/masking videos I've watched. This is the first one that has been useful and full of detailed information for the more experienced photographer that doesn't want to take a sledgehammer approach to photo editing. Thank you Jimmy!!!

Great, thanks!

JImmy thank you for a great tutorial!

Jesus Chr***, Jimmy ! I consider myself a pretty experienced Photoshopper, using it since ver 4 way back in ... sometime ... But here I am - with my jaw hanging down, brought back to school. I've learned a ton from you on Luminosity Masking and put some of it to effect the hard way = Channels and Levels. It would not have been if I hadn't watched your videos, I can tell you that. I may or may not jump the Raya Pro but Easy Panel will definitely go to begin with. Going to make that workflow soooo much smoother. I can't thank you enough for your tutorials and please try to find motivation to continue them.

Hi there Jimmy, In this tutorial you mentioned that you have tutorials about single image luminosity masking. Can you tell me which tutorials you mean? I loved this tutorial, learned a lot!

I have learnt so much from your videos, THANK YOU! I miss your Challenge Jimmy videos. They are fun and very useful; brilliant idea too. Will there be more coming? : D

Good job legend 👍

Hi Jimmy, I have been your fan for a long time. I would love to see you updating new video at higher frequency and show us your work on astonishing landscape locations. Is this doable?

Nice work

Hey Jimmy, I'm a huge fan of all your tutorials and panels! thx! at 14:15 you said, that you are not sure, why it is possible to reenforce the selection by multiple times of painting over. Isn't that just the case because the selection is like 60% in that region. So even a brush with 100% opacity&flow is just applied with 60% strength (based on the selection 'strength' locally) and thus it leads to a 60% grey on your mask? and if you paint over a second time, you just add a bit again? (opacity is 100% so it keeps adding the color of your brush until you hit 100% black) greetings from Germany!

Hello Jimmy, I do have a small question, I am looking for a tutorial about how to create the luminosity masks themselves, first to do them then to use the programs as your raya pro- These panels make me kind of crazy! Do you have any about the first steps of Luminosity masks only for one photo? Not an Hdr... Please let me know, thanks , Daniela from Uruguay.

Hi, Jimmy. What is the brand and model of your Graphic Tablet?

If we got a bracketing of the scene I see the advantage of using the luminosity mask applied to one of the exposures with the base exposure in the bottom. However, many times we have one exposure and some tutorials generates the different exposures based on copies adjusted with curves. In such cases, is there any difference if I just apply the masks of luminosity to a series of curves and test each one adjust better the photo? Usually, I create 6 curves with different luminosity masks levels and looking at the curves PS adjust the curve showing the levels only for the pixels after applied the mask indicating the luminosity level region that curve would adjust.

Amazing tutorial. @ 15:10 you mention the black edging around the trees & said that it's easy to fix, but you'll keep it for another tutorial. Do you already have a tutorial like that or can you point me in the right direction to fix those issues? Really learned a lot from your tutorials. Keep it up!

That's very simple to learn

Hi Jim I requesting a link for the easy panel but the link never arrives thank you

Hey Jimmy, where can I find the tutorial to remove the duplications on the trees caused by the wind you talked about? Thanks

When you say you have two - three different exposures, can you please clarifie if you mean they are bracketed, or adjusted manualy over and under in photoshop/Lightroom. Cheers.

here you are ... awesome jimmy

Hello, I just purchased your Jimmy McIntyre Collection, which tutorial should I start for real estate photography editing? @Jimmy McIntyre

Jimmy, I have to say that after watching a few videos I am completely lost with all your explanations! I feel that I am back at school in a Mathematics class. Your software looks absolutely amazing but because you explain what to do AND what not to do, AND all the different panels - free panels, beginners panels, intermediate, etc... , I just don't know how I can simply blend photos together. I thought the goal was to easily blend 2 or 3 exposures with a click of a button but this whole Raya Pro is becoming a very complex equation. It really is a shame because there must other people in my situation who want to buy your product but don't act because it's wayyyy to complex now. With Raya Pro can very easily blend 2 or 3 photos together? How? Thank you.

Jimmy sometimes my pictures end up a bit mirky grey and washed out after I edit using luminosity masks? Any recommendations of what I can adjust to restore? I’ve tried bumping up the contrast but it looks unnatural

Great video Jimmy. I've been using Easy Panel for a while and this video explains it really well. Just one question though - what would you say is about the maximum difference in exposure you can have between your two starting images before you start getting unrealistic effects in the final image?

Thank you for the video. Is the Castle image at 21:04 is your final edit or still some works need to be done.

Hi Jimmy! I see the first time you create the masks (you choose mask 6), is from the brighter "layer 0", (minute 10:30), but the two last ones you create them ( you chosse mask 1 and mask 2), you do it from the darker "layer 1".... (minute 12:44 and 13:50). Why?

Hi Jimmy! After watching several tutorials on KZfaq, I bought your Jimmy McIntyre Collection collection. Is there a certain order in which you recommend doing the courses? And why? Should I start with The Art of Photography, The Art of Digital Blending, or Exposure Blend Like an Expert? Looking at the names, I would suggest Exposure Blend Like an expert comes after The Art of Digital Blending, or am I wrong? I understand the basics of Photoshop and Luminosity Masks. Thank a lot! I'm really looking forward to start with your courses!

Fantastic tutorials but I just can't make it work. I'm completely new to PS (using mostly Lightroom) and even newer to HDR and exposure blending. After watching your tutorials for some months I used the summer discount to get a hold on Raya Pro and challenge myself to blend some of my shots. Sadly I'm still rather confused about what does each button, and even with the tutorials opened I can't make it look nice and natural like you do... Back to practice I guess!

Hello Jimmy, just a question of beginner : do I still need your free easy panel if I buy the Raya pro 3.0 panel?

Is that Eileen Donan ??. Great tutorial.

how to instal the easy panel on a Mac? since you using a Mac

When I try to create the mask folder I get the error The command "Apply Image" is not currently available.

Where you been Jimmy? We miss your knowledge

can you please let know how to remove the black edging around the trees @ 15:15

i downloaded and installed successful i cant find it in Photoshop 2018...What to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello jimmy, do you have an Instagram?

Is this you Jimmy ??? Without the beard, you look much younger ! :-)

next time you are in New Zealand, make contact

omg

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