Dynamic Range Extender need to know

[ErrolMG]

My first post so be kind.

Here is what I want to do:

Take two or three pictures, exact duplicates except for exposure. 1. Will be highlights, 2 midrange, 3 lowlights. then blend them into one photo with a very wide dynamic range.

I find the info everywhere; but in Photoshop lingo. One sample is

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml

I'm not smart enough to make it work in Paint Shop Pro9.

Will one of you intelligent folks please tell me how to do this in PSP 9?

I'm actually not a moron but please make your instructions easy as if I were.

Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

I have perused about four years of back entries but have not what I'm after (not to mention all the dead links! So yes I did try).



Vaya Con Dios
errolgibbs@gravyaol.com
HEY I SAID NO GRAVY

 

[Volk359]

If I get what you mean try Image/Arithmetic with two images open and select Add. You'll most likely hafta have to play around with the settings to get what you want.

 

[ErrolMG]

Volk359 Thanks for your insight.

I have a Photoshop book called How to Wow; Photoshop for Photography, it turns out that the instructions there were directly usable in PSP9. Page 78 - 79 each of the labels were the same in PSP. The photos of the tools were a little different.

Once I realized I could follow the tutorial as written well jeez I have the answer.

I'll expose in Raw (for it's Dynamic range) and use this procedure to open up dark backgrounds.

While lurking at DPReview.com I found a post; the photog asked for help as his clients did not like the inky background in one of the brides wedding pictures. (Sorry I don't have permission to post it here)

She was at the bottom of a stairway with her arm wrapped around the bottom bannister post.
I used gamma 1.30 to adjust her lightness. This still had an inky stairwell behind her.

I layer copy and promoted the adjusted copy (call it dark) to top of the heap. In histogram adjustment I changed gamma to 2.3 which washed out the foreground but opened up the background.

Then clicked on layer properties clicked on blend range the top left slider in this image was dragged to the right to value 200.

Then flattened.

Lightened overall gamma about 115.

The overall pic was flat. So I clicked on clarify and gave it a value of 5.

All done the pic looked great.

Not too shabby, Not too shabby at all.

Vaya Con Dios
errolgibbs@gravyaol.com
HEY I SAID NO GRAVY