How to Use Double Masking for Natural HDR Blending in Photoshop

► If you want ultimate control over your High Dynamic Range images, manual blending is still the way to go. But creating a perfectly blended image from two or more exposures using layer masks can be challenging. In this excerpt from my Ultimate HDR Master Class 2017, I am showing you a method that I call double masking. Instead of using straight luminosity masks or a mask I created manually with the Brush tool, I’ll combine these two techniques to make a complex blending task much simpler and gain ultimate control.