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Multiple exposures for landscapes #1
mechie8682's picture
by mechie8682
August 23, 2012 - 12:03pm

Came across an interesting post which is unfortunately Photoshop specific - taking multiple exposure of a landscape and then merging them to create one single shot. Much like HDR but not quite. http://photo.tutsplus.com/articles/shooting-articles/quick-tip-double-ex…

Is there a way to do this in Aperture?

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by Thomas Emmerich
August 23, 2012 - 12:16pm

You need an external editor to do that. Take a look at Pixelmator in the Mac App Store. It was on sale for $15. I don’t know if the price went back up yet.

Thomas

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by Nigel
August 23, 2012 - 12:42pm

Since Aperture does not support layers I’m afraid I don’t see how you could do this.

There are third party apps like Perfect Layers, it’s about $100 I think.
Pixelmator does not work well with Aperture as it does not like the PXM format. Bummer.
Photomatrix is $80 and offers HDR loveliness.

Apple has a page devoted to these options.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/

Unfortunately they’re all at least 2 years old and the prices are not given, you have to go hunting for them on the dev’s pages.
(Therein lies the core weakness of Aperture when stacked up against Lightroom, which has a far stronger Pro user base and a new version…)

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by iHarley
August 23, 2012 - 1:10pm

As the others have noted you’ll need to grab a plugin of some sort to handle layers. Pixelmator is not a bad pickup, but it doesn’t play that well with Aperture. Another option is a fairly new option from Topaz Labs called photoFXlab (http://www.topazlabs.com/photofxlab/). It’s both a plugin and standalone app and offers simple layers work. You don’t need the other add-ons (though they add greatly to the entire package) and I’ve found it plays nicer with Aperture than Pixelmator.

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by Scott Davenport
August 23, 2012 - 1:44pm

Perfect Layers for onOne Software was mentioned. That product is now free,and has a Aperture plugin. Definitely with checking out.

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by Thomas Emmerich
August 23, 2012 - 10:45pm

When I recommended Pixelmator, I wasn’t aware of the “doesn’t play well with Aperture” issues. The issues are explained here: http://www.gabrielponzanelli.com/blog/apple-aperture-and-pixelmator-inte…

It can still work and do the job but it takes more work at the moment to get the edited file back into the Aperture library which is mainly an inconvenience.

Thomas

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by iHarley
August 24, 2012 - 3:49am

Wasn’t aware Perfect Layers was free now. Thanks for that.

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by PhotoJoseph
August 24, 2012 - 7:59am

Whoah… free is good. Will post that on the front page now!

-Joseph

@PhotoJoseph
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