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Fix Blurred Leaves, Flowers and Overexposed Water From David Cobb's Columbia River Gorge Workshop

Sean Bagshaw

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Part 2 of a video class I did for David Cobb's April 2021 Columbia River Gorge Workshop. I demonstrate exposure blending to fix blown-out whitewater and ISO blending to deal with blurry leaves and flowers using layers and masks in Photoshop.

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8 Comments

@arisdimakopoulos2721 5 years ago

Always perfect teacher....thanks from Greece...I can't understand why only a few likes....

@lookforbeauty1964 5 years ago

The trick in the smoothness at the end of the video is very creative and surprising 👌
Thanks Sean

@dsfarag 3 years ago

super useful video!

@jasonmordecai8212 5 years ago

Try using a Wacom Pen it helps tons when doing stuff like this. The last technique is one I’ll add to my arsenal thanks Sean

@davidtaddei419 5 years ago

I really like the ISO blending trick, thank you Sean, I will give this a go as soon as I can locate a decent waterfall near Montreal 🤣 however, after trying PureRaw, I feel I would process the Raw using DxO first before the blend. I am fairly confident the noise won’t be too much of an issue and dealt with better than in Lightroom. Great tutorial as always, 😊

@juhaniviitanenphotography1607 4 years ago

Sean I think you left the hard part out of this editing video. Bottom of the image where leaves were most blurry water texture now don't match the long exposure photo. Problem is that blurry leaf is bigger than sharp leaf and this technique alone doesn't work. How I usually deal with this problem is cloning out the edges of blurry leaf in long exposure photo first and then mask sharp image on top. I'm sure you know how to do it but I think it would be important for us viewers to learn how to do the tricky parts too. I watched this video to learn how you deal with blurred leaves and was a little dissapointed when it ended with an unfinished image. Good tip with blending different exposures in the waterfall itself to get some texture in smooth water!

@garysimms1347 5 years ago

Great tutorial. Nice to see your Favorite Ps Techniques in action.

Any reason not to rasterize the noise image and send it through Topaz Denoise AI before blending?

@PaulBeiser 5 years ago

Most excellent Sean! I assume in both examples you did not change the focus point? Also I guess in PS there is no way to Align Layers that are Smart Objects? Some wonderful ideas here, and I liked the very minor and artistic blending on the water in select places in the 2nd example. I had not thought of that! Way cool. Best, Paul