Creating composite photo from two images

[curiousMonkey (Canon and M1 Mac)]

Will PL 6 help me create a composite photo from two different images? I am not sure if this is just an advanced form of cloning or if there is another more accurate word for what I want to do.

1. If there are two birds at different distances that I want to photograph together, I take a separate photo of each, remove the blurry bird from the first image and then paste in the clear image from the second photo.
2. I have two photos of an animal with a tree. In one image there is a dust ball or some diffraction that has created a cloudy ball on part of the tree. If I can take the tree (or part of the tree) from the other image, I can quickly eliminate the distraction.

[mwsilvers (Mark - New Jersey, USA)]

You currently cannot create a composite photograph using PhotoLab. I also tend to doubt that capability is in DxO’s long-term plans. That type of functionality is probably better done in a pixel editor like Photoshop or Affinity Photo.

Mark

[Pat91 (Patrick Philippot)]

Hi,

You need Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Affinity Photo or any other similar program to do this.

[bobrocke (Bob - Midway, GA, Mac, OM System)]

Take a look at ON1 Photo RAW. It is set up for doing exactly that.

[TorsteinH (Torstein Olaf HALL)]

If you have dxo PL you would be much better off PS, Affinity Photo or another photo editor.

[bobrocke (Bob - Midway, GA, Mac, OM System)]

Yes. Don’t switch raw converters just for image composites.

[alanGmedia (Alan Gauld)]

AS others have said you need a pixel based editor like Affinity/PS etc. The free Gimp editor is perfectly adequate for most of those things. It’s not so good as a photo editor(better using PL6 for that) but for composites, cloning, and stitching panos of focus stacks etc Gimp will do a grand job for zero cost.