From the course: Photographing and Assembling a Lunar Eclipse Composite
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Creating an evenly spaced sequence
From the course: Photographing and Assembling a Lunar Eclipse Composite
Creating an evenly spaced sequence
Once all the separate moonshots have been separated from their backgrounds. It's time to bring each of the sequence segments together to create a single sequence file. It can then be added into the background landscape image in the final composite. So here's my three sequence images. And I have the backgrounds deleted from each of the moon layers. There's just one thing I want to address here in case you run into the same thing yourself, and that is in my sequence three image. I had again the problem some of this big data extending out over the edge. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to choose to go to the Image menu. And I'm going to choose Trim and I'm just going to choose based on transparent pixels. And then, I'm going to make a rectangular selection of those layers there that are extending off the side. And I can see here in my Layers panel which layers have that problem. And so, I'll just select each layer in turn. And then, just press the Delete key to get rid of those…
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Evaluating focus and exposure of the moon shots6m 34s
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Processing images in Lightroom or Camera Raw9m 47s
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Opening raw shots as layers in Photoshop7m 26s
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Choosing the best shots to refine the moon sequence5m 56s
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Selecting the moon and removing the background8m 38s
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Creating an evenly spaced sequence4m 38s
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Prepping the position-reference sequence3m 24s
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