How to Blend Tracked Milky Way and Foreground (Photoshop)

In this video I show two examples of how to blend tracked Milky Way photos with an untracked foreground using Photoshop. Images captured with a star tracker can result in blurry foreground subjects, so how can we deal with those?

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[grigoryvidishev]

We keep watching your videos Alyn and you are still alive with us. Thank you and RIP.

[iigal]

Your videos were always great, and I keep coming back to them. RIP my friend.

[damienk]

Thanks for all your help mate and R.I.P
Damo

[zakstone]

Miss you. Driving right now it’s 11:03 PM. Milky Way is about to rise in 90 minutes. These next photos are for you, Brother. Thank you for getting my skies clear.

[paiged]

One of the best tutorials on blending and masking...I now understand making much better with milky way photography! Thank you!

[NeoMullen]

Went to mt Teide on Tenerife last week. Looks like this photo is from there? Anyway, I thought about you and your video's while driving there alone. It was an amazing experience, since I've never stargazed on my own in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm going to use this toturial to blend the photo's I made. Thank you for everything, rest in peace.

[rsrs]

Oh wtf! 😞RIP Alyn and thx for all of your vids. Great Photographer and inspiration. Greets from Palatina Forest, Germany.
Rico

[epostiljon]

I continue to follow your tutorials Alyn. Sad you not around in person and longer❤

[NeilArthurs]

Fantastic video! an invaluable asset to anyone that is looking to blend tracked images. I am hoping to get a tracker at some point on my astro journey and I have no doubt that I will be coming back to this video time and time again! Cheers!

[happymystic]

Thank you for this very instructive video. If you want to improve the quality of your night sky photography, sooner or later you need to have tools available to blend foreground and the starry sky without blur. This video helps a lot in understanding manageable tweaking and fine tuning options. Keep this good stuff going …

[benj]

I missed hearing your voice at the start of each month with witns,

[DennisSiebertPhotography]

I don't use Photoshop very much because it's just very complex.
But here you showed me options that I did not know and that I could not even guess.

[mike_abramyan]

Super useful!! I never use overlay for fixing up the mask, that's brilliant!

[stevethompson]

Thank YOU Alyn. I had never thought of using the remove tool on a mask. I can't wait to try this!

[neild]

Very useful. I was able to use your instructions pretty well. Only thing is that at 1:49 of your video, when I push "Select and mask, " it does not create a black and white rendition of the scene, and my selection completely disappears. So I undid "select and mask" and winged it from there. I wonder what I did wrong. That said, you deserve a great vote of thanks for bringing out this info about the PS quick selection tool.

[allenlloyd]

Superb Alyn. I didn’t know about usin brush in overlay mode for fine tuning a mask. Brilliant tip. Thank you.

[videodewd]

Really well-timed video, just got to processing some photos from a trip to joshua tree. Thanks for your inspiration, Alyn!

[matthewnielsen]

Super helpful, thanks for making this video! It really helped me confirm my understanding of the process.

[schoonhovenk]

Lol I emailed you about this exact thing two months ago. I appreciate your help then and this video now!

[matthewfletcher]

Wonderful tutorial thanks for that! I would have used the old method you mentioned with the content aware fill but didn't know about the new remove and ai options
Thanks!!❤