PhotoDirector 9 How to combine different focus or exposure areas into a single image

This is quite helpful, but can you also show us how to do this with three landscape photos of the same image, but with focus on foreground, midground, and background? That would be very useful to me. Thanks so much.

Hi Word Girl. Thanks for the video. I love the tutorial. Going to try it tonight with my landscape photographs. Really really appreciate the fact you took the time to read my comment and put the effort into making a video to help. If I could press like 20 times I would. Regards.

Nice video Word Girl! Thanks for sharing it with us.😎👍JP

Here is a great idea for a video. Can you show how to remove background with models with hair. It is the hardest thing to do with precision. Will love to have your input.

Super job! I can use that skill. You invite us to mention other things we would like to learn. I plan to watch all your layer-related videos and this may already be covered, but I'm going to type it up while it is fresh in my mind. I watched a Dave Dugdale YouTube video called, "How I Photograph Real Estate Interiors." I think he used Photoshop. He put his camera in a fixed place on its tripod and then he took about 20 pictures where he moved his flash around to highlight different areas of the room - the flash stands, as well as Dave himself, ended up in some of the pictures, but that didn't bother him. Then he put all of the pictures into Photoshop as layers and he used some kind of tool and variable opacity to bring out the best part of each photo so that he ended up with one pretty perfect picture! He he magically made the light stands, his body, and any other unwanted items disappear as he edited. I tried this layer technique with Photo Director (my first foray into layers) using the erase tool and varying opacity. I did OK! But as I moved my light stands around they were in some of my pictures and my efforts to erase them while keeping the good parts of that layer (using the eraser and opacity) were not as elegant as Doug's work. Maybe I just need to think it through better. Or maybe there is a tool I'm not aware of. I would set my light stand in front of a window, for example, to highlight a curtain, and then take a picture of it. When I added that picture to the top of the layer stack I would set opacity around 30% or 40% to get the benefit of the lighting and still retain the richness of the lower layers. But then I would erase the light stand and it looked fair, but not professional because you could see the difference in light where I erased. Layers are definitely powerful, especially with a little imagination added, and I look forward to seeing if PhotoDirector can produce results as good as Lightroom and PhotoShop. Hope you don't mind the long post but your channel focuses on layers in PhotoDirector so thought I would share and see what you think.