Since this thread is rather old, with no answer to the original question I’m likely wasting my time asking here, but just in case I was wrong…
I was asked to combine two raw images into a single image. The obvious answer is to use PhotoShop and “layers”, but before re-learning PhotoShop, am I correct that this can not be done in PhotoLab? The photos are two boats in Biscayne Bay, with the photos separated by a few seconds. My goal is to make a single, wider, image that contains both boats. The only way I know of to do this is by using overlapping “layers”, and I guess that’s my project for later this week. Since I haven’t yet read anything about PhotoLab and “layers”, I assume that function was never added to PhotoLab - but I wanted to ask in case I’ve missed this somewhere.
Yes.
PhotoLab is a non destructive raw developer and not a pixel based editor. So combining two or more photos into a single image will have to de done elsewhere.
it seems you have no issues with such pixel operations as using textures in DxO PL for example which is exactly combining 2 photos into a single image (one of them is not a raw file of course) ? prev. poster of course is looking for panorama stitching that other parametric raw converters do
When I found this thread, I was hoping to find a way to do what I want within PhotoLab. I’m still making the monthly payment to Adobe, so I’ve got both Photoshop and Lightroom if I want to use them.
The easiest solution is for me to not even try. It’s not all that important to me, at least this time.
It would be great to see a new innovative way of implementing layers. On1 Photo Raw did this and is quite effective and easy to use, but I stopped using it because it was just so flakey, always crashing and losing edits. I mainly use PL7 (I am not sufficiently impressed by the PL8 updates to upgrade this year) and love what it can do, especially noise reduction, but there are those occasions when I wish it could work with layers.
I have used them a lot and very useful, but not the same. One cannot import a separate image on a separate layer as one can in Photoshop amongst others, for example.
It is true that layers in Capture One are equivalent to local adjustments in PL. The key difference though is that there is that CO layers is not a subset of adjustments, it is basically exactly the same set of adjustment as the base layer.
I do miss that about CO. Hopefully, the developers keep moving towards that
