How to Fake Long Exposure In Photoshop - Photo Editing Demo of a Black and White Seascape

No Neutral Density filter? No problem. This Photoshop technique is great for faking long exposures. Of course I recommend shooting it right in camera with an ND filter, but if, like me, you find yourself on location without one this is a great technique to help realise your vision of long exposure photography in Photoshop. And it's pretty easy to do.

In this photo editing demo, I show how I built layers to create a fine art seascape image from my original photo. We look at creating motion in the clouds and sea with the path blur filter. This allows us to emulate the effect of a long exposure and blur the movement of the clouds as if we had a neutral density filter on the lens.

My favourite plugin to use is the AI powerhouse Luminar. I used it here to enhance the fine art and ethereal feel with the mystical filter, but I use the software now on just about every image for the extra options it gives me.

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I share my favourite simple technique to control the brightness of a black and white image with a dodge and burn layer. Simply painting on a grey layer set to either overlay or soft light mode.

We add a light bleed by painting directly on the photoshop layer with a large soft brush.

Curves are an invaluable tool for controlling contrast in your photo edits. Here I show how I add a bit of contrast in the photo. Now things are really starting to take shape.

The finished image simply involves a bit of cloning out of birds on the sand and pier and adding a layer of film grain. Nowadays the most realistic film grain is available through the blur gallery! Yup, you read that right! A strange place to put it but it gives great results. I didn't show how I applied it in the video but basically, it was applied over a 50% grey layer so the blur had zero effect but the grain was visible. This layer was then changed to overlay mode.

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