Photoshop Friday - Friday, October 31, 2008 10:38 - 0 Comments

Digital Darkroom: Combining Multiple Exposures

Any well-trained photographer will bracket their shots so they can later combine the multiple exposures into one flawless image. In the darkroom, a photographer printing a landscape would have to burn in the sky and dodge darker mountains to retain all the detail one would naturally see with the eye. Photoshop makes the task of combining exposures much easier with only a little forethought.

Yes, Photoshop is a powerful tool with many amazing features, but it can’t create detail where there is none. Scenes containing bright highlights may be blown out and darker shadows may fill in even when the overall image is exposed properly. Bracketing your shots and capturing those brighter and darker areas with enough detail is necessary to creating a full range of value within the photo.

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