Edit with LightroomĮdit each photo individually with Lightroom, adjusting exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, blacks, clarity and saturation. This will result in a blended image of all brackets in each individual stack. By highlighting all of our stacks before triggering the Enfuse process, we let Enfuse know that each stack should be blended individually. We blend all of the stacked brackets together using the bulk feature in Enfuse. This is done so each bracketed shot has the same color temperature before blending together with Enfuse.
Each stack will end up with 3-7 photos depending on how many exposures you took for the given shot.įor each stack of photos, adjust the color temperature by using the eye dropper tool in Lightroom and making manual adjustments as needed. Stack the Bracketed Shotsįor each set of bracketed exposures that we take, we create a single stack of all photos. Import all of the photos from the shoot into your Lightroom catalog.
ConclusionĮnblend-enfuse is not designed for the average user as it relies on complicated concepts that require solid photography knowledge but despite this drawback it can come up with great results, blending the images into a single one without visible seams.īehind all the difficult to grasp configuration choices, the program is approachable as the developer makes available sufficient documentation about all the processing algorithms and the intricacies of the options.Summary of Editing Steps in the Video 1. There are settings for defining the depth channel or apply a soft or hard mask. There is a long list, organized into several sections: common options, extended options, fusion choices (allows setting the values for the aforementioned parameters) and an advanced group of settings.įrom a simplistic perspective, working with Enblend-enfuse is mostly a matter of awarding the correct importance (weight) to pixels that have been well-exposed and highly saturated as well as to those present in areas with high contrast levels.Īpart from this, the user has a wide range of other possibilities to control the fusion process for achieving optimum results. Hefty suite of options for professionalsĪll the options available in the application are provided as soon as it is loaded.
The process behind the software is a complicated one that relies on parameters such as exposure, saturation, local contrast and local entropy to fuse the files together into a seamless result. Command-line controlĮnblend-enfuse is a console-based application that uses complex computing algorithms in order to stitch together multiple images with different exposures into a single picture without creating and processing HDR (high-dynamic range) photos. This includes processing any layers in user-defined order.īehind a simple thing like a picture sometimes lies a lot of hard work and computer processing as photo manipulation has long entered the digital realm.