Neither of the examples you posted answer your initial question. You wanted to know how to blend layers together with advanced lighting techniques where a person lighting the show was often in frame. The method I described accomplishes that.

The examples you gave are for tone-mapping images (fake HDR) which is just a way to compress the contrast of the image so that details that were in the dark are visible without having the more lit areas be completely blown out.

It's a decent method for shooting real estate photos, and I've used it myself for quick and dirty shots. What the guy in the video was doing was lighting everything in it's most optimal way, in a way that would be impossible to light without having the lights directly in the shot and then combining the photos in a way that take the best portions of each photo to make one shot that lookes better than reality.

If tonemapping/HDR is what you are looking for, use a piece of software called LuminanceHDR. It's much much easier than using GIMP to do the same. You can even get decent results with a single RAW image out of your DSLR camera.

Brian Cluff

On 01/04/2016 06:20 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
here is another good one.
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blending_Exposures/

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I think a better way to do it, Brian!
    http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-photos-with-the-GIMP/step10*


    On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Brian Cluff <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        In gimp you would open up your images as layers and then in
        the layers window click the little eye next to all of the
        layers except for the bottom one.  Then one by one, starting
        at the next to the last one, click the eye on the layer to
        make it visile again.  Then right click on the image and
        select "Add Layer Mask".  When the layer mask settings come up
        select "Black (Full Transparency)" and that will make the
        layer appear to dissappear.  Then all you have to do is use
        the airbrush or paint tool (start with the paint tool) to
        paint white onto the layer mask, using a fussy brush, and that
        will cause the features of the layer to be airbrushed into the
        picture.

        Once done with that layer, just repeate with the rest of the
        layers until your satisfied with your image.  If you want to
        decrease the amount of the overall effect that any layer
        applies to your image just adjust the Opacity slider back and
        forth till you are happy with the results.

        Brian Cluff


        On 01/02/2016 11:25 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKyQsnwJMrM
            go to 18 minutes and 13 seconds-how do  you do it with GIMP?
if you don't want to watch to 18 minutes and 13 seconds here is the set up:
            He took multiple photo of the exact same scene holding a
            flash over
            various sections of his scene to shine light on the area.
            (he was in the
            shot) Then he put the photos on different layers.... I
            think I know....
            he then removed the pixels from the layer on top which
            were darker.Is
            that correct?
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