Actually that does work on my CS6 standard edition, nor does the process
outlined in the video.
Both the method you outline below and also the method in the video are
only enabled in Photoshop CC and CS Extended. I actually delved into
that last spring and learned that the only way to average with standard
CS6 is to manually adjust the layer opacity - I forgot my own research!
Nice shots from Devon - averaging give the water a smooth but not silky
texture. I once read an article by George Lepp (IIRC) who suggested
putting a camera on a tripod and taking multiple exposures to soften
moving water without creating the "silky water" effect. That was back in
film days and multiple exposures was a simple way to combine multiple
images...
On 10/19/2015 9:17 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Mark C wrote:
Thanks for posting that - I did not know how to automatically average
layers in Photoshop so that will be very helpful! I've been doing it
manually ala the technique they used with Gimp.
That video doesn't even show the easiest way of averaging Layers in
Photoshop. Here's the best way: From the FILE menu choose SCRIPTS and
from that sub-menu choose STATISTICS. You'll get a dialog box in which
you can choose the files you want (picking them individually,
targeting an entire directory or using files you have open); then use
the drop-down list in that dialog to choose the way you want to
combine them — "Mean" and "Median" are usually the best choices.
Click OK and Photoshop does the rest.
I used this technique for several shots I took in Devon this past
summer:
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7df02413-16.jpg
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7df02417-23.jpg
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