Everything I learned about Blend If is from you Blake. Easy to understand and the color overlay/magenta tip is brilliant. No one explains Blend If better.
Hi Blake...just watched this video and tried it out on a couple of old pics....I was so amazed..."works like a charm"!!!!! Not that you would ever steer us wrong..."YOUR THE MAN"...Thanks so much for this and the other tutorials you provide us. Greatly appreciated..Don, Sundre Alberta
20 years of learning Photoshop and today I learned something I didn't even know existed. Granted, my Photoshop needs revolve around specific parts of the program, but this just got dropped into my toolkit. Thanks so much, subscribed.
This technique is amazing 👏. It can be applied not only landscape s but all images.. I daily use clone stamp but combining with blend if we get amazing results. I feel its not learning its understanding. This is what the real teaching i believe. Way of teaching is amazing 👏
That explanation for the use of Blend If was awesome. I bet when you took that image you already knew it would be an excellent example of this method. You're just that smart.
At the end when he's talking about the guy cloning all these different things I was like, "oh, so you've seen my work!" lol. Great technique, thanks for this!
Hey Black...! I must say I am following you since April 2020, along the Dave Cross' Photoshop Summit! It is really awesome what you do, and please receive my entire admiration and respect for your entire work! ❤
Hi Blake: Simply put, you are the Boss! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this information. I can now go ahead and fix several important images to me that had 'blown-out' areas that prevented me from printing these images. Please keep safe during this Covid-19 period and keep creating. Cheers, Keith (Canada)
I like it! Not knowing this, I have sometimes used an alternative of adding a larger, soft, round, slightly yellow high exposure area that really mimics that into sun type of look and hides the fact that I should have bracketed!
Thats a good method, I have also been known to use a Gradient with the Linear Light Blend Mode (Solar Spot on the ZSE6 Panel) that works AWESOME as well, but not always realistic.
Hi Blake ... why not create a mask from the channels of the highlights in a duplicate layer and try content aware fill of the area before blend-if. Then group the effect and mask it in ... just a thought 💕
Cuz then it's a mask and can't be moved as conveniently as Blend If. Luminosity Masks are so last year 🤣🤣🤣 I actually did try content aware full and it looked atrocious. This way you control exactly what goes where.
OK, it's a good point. What I'm using for those situations, after cloning more or less precisely, it's creating a copy of the image and changing it to LAB mode. Then, in the A or B channel or in both channels, painting in white or black (depending on the desired color) over the lightests parts very very softly in Soft light mode pencil with an extemely low opacity (can be as low as 1% or even less in practice) just to get a very subtle color impossible or very difficult to get in RGB. After Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E I'm just copying the image over the original RGB image and the job it's done. It's really much faster than it looks and works very well
How can I edit photos in Photoshop like I do in lightroom without having to switch between both apps? In your video here I see all the editing options on the right hand part of the screen in photoshop for you but I can not find them at all in mine. I am new so any help would be appreciated. thanks
Wow!! This works so much better than what I have been doing, using a lights L6 layer mask from Lumenzia and trying to use the Healing brush or clone stamp to fill in and address the blowouts. Just never looked really organic/realistic. Again, thank you for another fantastic tutorial. Ok, now I feel like I need to pay it back, gonna look at your elite membership!! I'm then gonna have Tony Kuypers actions, Lumenzia and yours, sheesh...which one to use :)
Blend If will always win in my mind over a traditional mask. Don't get me wrong masks are great, useful, and necessary, but blend if is more fluid and forgiving. My Zone System Express 6 panel is Blend If dependent (and also supplies masks) but the workflow is much better with Blend If. I am bias though :)
I'm puzzled...if the sun was still that high in the sky, how did it cause the "typical" orange/red sunset, which is caused by the sun on, near or just below the horizon as it rises and sets ?
It's a great technique, but I don't think it can help me with one image with specular highlights. All the same it's a good one for the processing 'kit bag'.
It could depends on the object. It fills in all highlights everywhere, so you should be able to match the color/tone, then mask where you don't want it to go. I use this for specular highlights all the time.
Blake, thanks for the reply. It confirms you didn't take it as anything other than how it was intended - just having a little fun. Great tutorials, thanks again . . .
Maybe you can continue speaking at your optimal rate, but make obvious pause places that show what you click on. Sometimes it takes a second to see where you are on screen, and then you have to continually back up to catch the next step. When you're looking at your video on one screen and you're using Photoshop on another, the mouse has a long way to go between monitors.
Any idea in how to make the clone stamp tool cursor darker and/or lighter? I understand that the circular tool switches from dark to light dependent on the photo's background, but I am finding it more and more difficult to see where the curser is as it is too faint. Any ideas on how to increase the density or contrast in the curser tool itself?
@@f64Academy …Thant you for your reply. This problem is huge for me and I can’t understand why it isn’t at the top of the list for Adobe troubleshooters. I waist countless hours simply guessing where the curser is when using the clone stamp. Can’t there be a way to lighten/darken it so it does what it’s supposed to do?
Of the hundreds of videos I've watched these past 2 years, no one has addressed this issue! Thank you very much!
My pleasure!
Everything I learned about Blend If is from you Blake. Easy to understand and the color overlay/magenta tip is brilliant. No one explains Blend If better.
😁 I ♥️ blend if!
Hi Blake...just watched this video and tried it out on a couple of old pics....I was so amazed..."works like a charm"!!!!! Not that you would ever steer us wrong..."YOUR THE MAN"...Thanks so much for this and the other tutorials you provide us. Greatly appreciated..Don, Sundre Alberta
Thanks so much. 😍 My kids ask me things like, " how do you do that? " And I just respond, "I'm the man" haha, confirmed by Don 😉
20 years of learning Photoshop and today I learned something I didn't even know existed. Granted, my Photoshop needs revolve around specific parts of the program, but this just got dropped into my toolkit. Thanks so much, subscribed.
Awesome! So glad I could teach you something new 😁
So do I. An excellent class.
Thank you for an excellent tutorial 👌
Glad it was helpful!
This technique is amazing 👏. It can be applied not only landscape s but all images.. I daily use clone stamp but combining with blend if we get amazing results. I feel its not learning its understanding. This is what the real teaching i believe. Way of teaching is amazing 👏
Absolutely! I use it all the time, all over the place. Glad you see the potential as well ☺️
Excellent tutorial. I'm a novice to Photoshop and I am absolutely happy to see this. TY.
My pleasure!
Wow! Thanks for this technique. Blend-If for the win again!
For sure!!!
That explanation for the use of Blend If was awesome.
I bet when you took that image you already knew it would be an excellent example of this method. You're just that smart.
Haha, I don't let anything hold me back on location. I'm just collecting data 😁 I can work with any data!
@@f64Academy Yes you can. Proven, over and over. Thanks for the content.
Nice tutorial, Blake. This belongs in everyone's tool box!
Thanks!
Excellent work around Blake.
Thanks!
At the end when he's talking about the guy cloning all these different things I was like, "oh, so you've seen my work!" lol. Great technique, thanks for this!
Hahaha it's all good, we gotta learn somehow 😁
This is absolutely brilliant. I've tried clone stamping blown skies before but it's the Blend If that's the silver bullet.
It sure is! I love Blend If!
Well done Blake! Very practical application. Add in an adjustment to Opacity and you got a little more feathering.
For sure!
Great tutorial as always. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the awesome tutorial!
I've been looking to solve this problem for the longest time, and this tutorial is Heaven sent!
Glad I could deliver 😁
Thank you for yet another really clear exposition of this technique and for reminding me of the benefits of using the clone stamp on it's own layer.
My pleasure, really!
Wow. Thanks. Had no idea how to use Blend If.
Check that playlist out, it's incredible what you can use it for.
Excellent video,really helpful. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Outstanding technique and explanation
In appreciate it 😁
First time I completely understood Blend if , just saying thank you very much!
Woohoo! The key is exposure to it
I had no idea about the Blend If option! This is fantastic! Thank you for this well put together tutorial!
My pleasure 😁
Ahhh... the power of Blend If!! Thanks for this little tutorial Blake. This knowledge will definitely come in handy :-)
Blend If is my ♥️
All your videos are great mate. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Brett, will do 😁
Dope! Looks very natural, bro!
Thanks! It's a slick and sneaky technique!
Merci beaucoup Blake. fait pour paraître facile. Parfait.
Thanks for your explanation!
This is really useful information well presented, many thanks
My pleasure 😁
woow thats very helpful. this highlight problem is something I have to deal all the time.
Perfect! So glad I can help you fix it now 😁
you have really opened my eyes with blenif. I love using your zone system express.
Thanks, Dave!
Hey Black...! I must say I am following you since April 2020, along the Dave Cross' Photoshop Summit! It is really awesome what you do, and please receive my entire admiration and respect for your entire work! ❤
Thank you so much! It really means a lot to me 😁
Awesome! I will try this out soon, as I have more blown out skies than I care to admit to having. Hope all is well, brother.
it happens to the best of us!
Beautifully explained 🙂
Excellent one :) Thank you Blake !
My pleasure!
Just signed up for your course, I'm excited!!
Welcome aboard! You'll love it!
Hi Blake: Simply put, you are the Boss! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this information. I can now go ahead and fix several important images to me that had 'blown-out' areas that prevented me from printing these images. Please keep safe during this Covid-19 period and keep creating. Cheers, Keith (Canada)
Oh wow! Thanks 😁
At 5:54 you start moving around the second layer.
How?
I see the clone stamp tool is still active.
Thank you!
You bet!
wow this was what I've needed for so long thanks Blake excellent tute
Awesome glad I could help :)
I like it! Not knowing this, I have sometimes used an alternative of adding a larger, soft, round, slightly yellow high exposure area that really mimics that into sun type of look and hides the fact that I should have bracketed!
Thats a good method, I have also been known to use a Gradient with the Linear Light Blend Mode (Solar Spot on the ZSE6 Panel) that works AWESOME as well, but not always realistic.
Thanks Blake.
Any time!
Hi Blake ... why not create a mask from the channels of the highlights in a duplicate layer and try content aware fill of the area before blend-if. Then group the effect and mask it in ... just a thought 💕
Cuz then it's a mask and can't be moved as conveniently as Blend If. Luminosity Masks are so last year 🤣🤣🤣
I actually did try content aware full and it looked atrocious. This way you control exactly what goes where.
OK, it's a good point. What I'm using for those situations, after cloning more or less precisely, it's creating a copy of the image and changing it to LAB mode. Then, in the A or B channel or in both channels, painting in white or black (depending on the desired color) over the lightests parts very very softly in Soft light mode pencil with an extemely low opacity (can be as low as 1% or even less in practice) just to get a very subtle color impossible or very difficult to get in RGB. After Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E I'm just copying the image over the original RGB image and the job it's done. It's really much faster than it looks and works very well
Interesting technique. I don't think I'd have the patience for the pencil marking though :)
How can I edit photos in Photoshop like I do in lightroom without having to switch between both apps? In your video here I see all the editing options on the right hand part of the screen in photoshop for you but I can not find them at all in mine. I am new so any help would be appreciated. thanks
Awesome advice but I only use snapseed as that's all I'm using as I don't have a pc or laptop.. So can I do this in snapseed?
I don't know. I only know for Photoshop. I highly doubt it, this is pretty technical and snapseed is basic editing.
@@f64Academy ahh OK I can understand that.. Looking forward to getting a laptop soon to run a program that can do all my needs..
great tip
Glad you think so!
Nevertheless thought about Costco before ! wow !! very helpful :)
🤣
Thanks for the great tip! :)
My pleasure!
Wow!! This works so much better than what I have been doing, using a lights L6 layer mask from Lumenzia and trying to use the Healing brush or clone stamp to fill in and address the blowouts. Just never looked really organic/realistic. Again, thank you for another fantastic tutorial. Ok, now I feel like I need to pay it back, gonna look at your elite membership!! I'm then gonna have Tony Kuypers actions, Lumenzia and yours, sheesh...which one to use :)
Blend If will always win in my mind over a traditional mask. Don't get me wrong masks are great, useful, and necessary, but blend if is more fluid and forgiving. My Zone System Express 6 panel is Blend If dependent (and also supplies masks) but the workflow is much better with Blend If. I am bias though :)
Thank you
You're welcome
Thank you sir!
Any time!
Very useful
It's great, I love Blend If!
Better to protect highlights in camera in my opinion; but yeah a useful tutorial.
cheers
Right, I agree, but this scene, not possible to balance that light while maintaining shadow detail.
Since the big upgrade, my clone stamp doesn't look right (no circle). How can I change how the clone stamp looks. Thanks.
Look into your cursor settings
@@f64Academy Thanks....That worked for the cursor but the clone preview is not working. Any ideas on that?
@@f64Academy I found it...on clone source panel, select Show Overlay and check Clipped! Crazy...thanks.
This seems to only open in PS 2017. How do I get it to open in PS 2020?
I did this with PS 2021, it should work in any PS.
Your the Jedi Master of Photoshop
Thanks :) I am blushing!
Great!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you! Cheers!
You think you know photoshop and then blend if shows up - thanks dude!
Aint that the truth!
I'm puzzled...if the sun was still that high in the sky, how did it cause the "typical" orange/red sunset, which is caused by the sun on, near or just below the horizon as it rises and sets ?
Movie Magic
It's a great technique, but I don't think it can help me with one image with specular highlights. All the same it's a good one for the processing 'kit bag'.
It could depends on the object. It fills in all highlights everywhere, so you should be able to match the color/tone, then mask where you don't want it to go. I use this for specular highlights all the time.
Cool
Yep, I think so 😁
Hi Blake, another great tutorial. And for what it's worth those are Bighorn Sheep (ewe and a lamb), not goats.
That's true, I'm not a zoologist, I'm a landscape photographer 🤣🤣🤣
Blake, thanks for the reply. It confirms you didn't take it as anything other than how it was intended - just having a little fun. Great tutorials, thanks again . . .
I got lots of pics to use this on
Maybe you can continue speaking at your optimal rate, but make obvious pause places that show what you click on. Sometimes it takes a second to see where you are on screen, and then you have to continually back up to catch the next step. When you're looking at your video on one screen and you're using Photoshop on another, the mouse has a long way to go between monitors.
Pause button is right there 😁
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I'll take them all 😁 thanks!
You blew right by where you get the Blend If......
It's in layer styles. You can double click anywhere in the layer to get there or right click and go to layer styles.
Could only get half way through before I gave up. 10 minutes to learn a technique that takes only seconds?
Gotta learn the theory behind it before you can learn the trick.
I liked it more before applying the "blend if" =(
No problem, then use the advice and techniques, don't worry too much about the image.
8 thumbs down. Did 5 more ex-girlfriends find you?
Haha they called their old roommates
This isn't the best way to fix this problem.
But it is A way 😉
Useful lesson, BUT, so long useless intro. Skip to 2.5 min mark.
It's not useless, because it sets the stage and helps beginners understand highlight blowouts and what not to do 😁
Any idea in how to make the clone stamp tool cursor darker and/or lighter? I understand that the circular tool switches from dark to light dependent on the photo's background, but I am finding it more and more difficult to see where the curser is as it is too faint. Any ideas on how to increase the density or contrast in the curser tool itself?
Not that I know of. It takes on the shape and feather of the brush or tool selected.
@@f64Academy …Thant you for your reply. This problem is huge for me and I can’t understand why it isn’t at the top of the list for Adobe troubleshooters. I waist countless hours simply guessing where the curser is when using the clone stamp. Can’t there be a way to lighten/darken it so it does what it’s supposed to do?
What if you can't use a clone stamp because it's not a cloud, but people?
Try this method. ruclips.net/video/3Kde5MC4w30/видео.html
Thank you
No problem at all!