Melding two versions of 1 picture together...

forgive my newbie-ish questions...

I use GIMP and Canon Digital Photo Professional to post process my photos

I recently went to Uganda and have a lot of pictures of the mountain gorillas....super cool!

but being in shadow I was having trouble shooting them to my liking...

I lighten up the photos using the tool palette in DPP to be able to see the detail of the face, but in doing so I lose the lustrous green of the surroundings

what I'd like to do is to lighten up just parts of the one photo, and merge the background of the untouched one onto it

is this possible...and if so how? I'll attach the photos so you'll see what I mean

thanks so much, I have 6-7000 pictures to look over here, and man some would be amazing if they didn't get washed out so much

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Hi there,

I think you mean Blending Exposure. I only know how to do it in Photoshop. Not sure if GIMP and DPP offer similar features. Check out this thread. Rene posted some link that shows you how to achieve that using Photoshop.

i think that's what i mean...thanks i'm going to give the program linked in that thread a try

i just discovered photostitch on my programs cd, and man, WOW

I used to spend hours melding a single panorama shot together by hand, and this program does it in seconds a lot better than I could of

hopefully...picturenau​t (the program linked) is as mind blowing as that

cheers