Intensify Pro is an image editing program for the Mac from MacPhun Software. It is a powerful tool in which I've barely scratched the surface. Once you do initial processing in Photoshop or Lightroom you pull the image into Intensify Pro which has a plethora of filters, overlays and fine tuning capabilities. You can also stack layers to further enhance the image.

I've used a low-angle outtake from a doggie photo shoot that I did recently as an example below. I stacked two filters...Calm Day and Dramatic 2.

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There are so many adjustment features in Intensify Pro, that it is very difficult to convey in a single blog post, so I will have other posts on it as well as MacPhun's other awesome tool, Tonality Pro.

Below are links to reviews and tutorials for Intensify Pro.

Layer Masks are an essential element of Photoshop. They allow you to control a layers level of transparency.

"Layer masking allows you to hide or use as much of any one layer as you like." -- via EHow.com [Definition of Layer Masking]

I have two photos of the same scene. In one, I like the sky and in the other I like the contrast of the structure. I watched an episode of Photography Tips & Tricks where Matt Kloskowski shows how to stack images and pull out the desired elements into a final image.

Here are my two shots:

Start by opening the image with the better structure, then open the one with the better sky on top...stacking the images.

Select out the sky...not forgetting the peice of sky showing through the hole in the structure. Next, click the Layer Mask button. Doing this leaves the good sky and updates with the good structure from the image underneath.

Now the photo contains the sky I like from the first image and the structure I like from the second image...creating a third image.

LINK SUMMARY

Macphun's Intensify Pro

Photoshop: Merging Two Photos and Masking Layers to Get Desired Elements