Photoshop adds impact effect to plain digital photos

Scenery Photography In the late stage is also particularly important one, the use case diagram to deal with, the whole process of about one hours. I would like to replicate the entire production process, I will use detailed decomposition steps to explain how I do and why to do so, this is the most important later, to use their own ideas to lead you to operate.

Screen cropping

Tailoring is generally based on 3 kinds of reasons:

First, the original composition of the problem, need two times composition.

Second, to adapt to the print size, 5d2 's original image is the 4x6 size, and I default printing is generally a3+ (329 x 483 mm,13 x inches), which we often say 13 "photos." However, this picture was trying to put the feeling in the frame, a3+ frame is too expensive, 8-inch frame price is more appropriate, so I chose to cut to 4x5 8X10 (we often say 8 "photos).

Third, cutting general I was the first step in the Lightroom inside the completion, Lightroom cutting tool is very convenient, I generally use the usual print size preset, there is no special two times composition needs, I will generally choose a particular type of printing size to cut, rather than the heart of the Cut, Otherwise, the printing time to do a cut, the loss outweighs, and the default size of the printed aspect ratio is generally more comfortable, trustworthy.

Adjust Color temperature

Adjust the color temperature is to restore the true colors, JPEG or raw straight out does not mean you recorded the real color, because your camera white balance does not necessarily set the right, why not in the JPEG format and must be used in raw format shooting a very important reason, Is that we can be lossless in the later adjustment of the color of various basic parameters, and JPEG can only be harmful to do and adjustable space is very small.

Note: In today's very inexpensive storage device, a 16GB CF card can take 500 or so raw, in any case basic enough, the only time I use the standby CF card is I for 6 female students filmed 9 hours total shot more than 700, this is the only time.

I sometimes trust Lightroom's built-in auto function, sometimes good, want this picture I direct auto, set 6100K jump to the 7500k,shade of color temperature, I think and I remember close.

Adjust exposure

Most of the exposure I will do in Photoshop, but sometimes it is convenient to lightroom a slight correction. This picture, I was +0.35 exposed, recovered 15, filled with high light 5, black adjusted to 11. and the following parameters to see example figure two, I generally pay more attention to exposure, recovery, black and clarity. The basis of the adjustment is to make the picture more transparent, histogram more perfect point, for the next Photoshop refinement to prepare.

Jump to Photoshop

Go to PS Edit, LR Click Edit in Photoshop will choose to copy a TIFF to PS edit. In PS also immediately copy a layer, and then all operations based on this copy layer, the reason is to retain the operation of each step, you can easily return to each step of the operation.

I. The prospect of dealing with

Dealing with the exposure of the prospect of a spinning spray, I think the prospect of the spray is a bit dark, and the clouds are worse than the minimum of 1 exposure. So add an adjustment layer with a exposure of +1. At one glance it looked horrible.

Brush slowly with a larger brush, and brush back the sky and water except for the spray. This to the dividing line can enlarge the picture, adjust small brush size to brush, the principle is excessive natural reasonable, PS also want Harmony AH. The effect of the following figure, brush control is PS inside the most difficult, I also think the control is not good, we still have to practice more, try a variety of parameters, flow, size, hardness and so on.

Saturation of Hue

Add a hue saturation of the adjustment layer, I just here to the upper left corner of the red Cloud to do a deal. Hue-3, saturation +24, lightness-3, and brush the other parts off. The effect is shown in the figure below.

Curve

In order to let the sky cloud level is very rich, I mercilessly pull the curve.

Then with the brush, the sea and some layers have been very rich clouds brush off, basically get the final effect. Off PS, the picture is naturally saved back to Lightroom.

Surface blurring and sharpening

Surface blur is a very good thing, choose the appropriate value can make the picture softer, about sharpening has a lot of technology, I generally use lab color sharpening way.

The picture is not cut, the concrete steps to say

• Once again from the Lightroom inside output a TIFF copy to PS to be processed.

• Click on filter > Blur > Surface blur, select the appropriate value, OK.

• Click image > Mode >lab color in turn.

• In the channel panel, click on "Brightness Channel" and the image becomes Black-and-white.

• Select the filter > Sharpen >USM to sharpen the brightness channel in turn. I normally set the quantity to 65%, the radius is 3~5, the valve value is 1-2.

• Adjust the picture will RGB mode, save exit PS, back to LR.

Lab color Sharpening The advantage is that you can sharpen many times, and generally can not be more than 3 times, I actually sharpen two times, to see the focus of the content, like this picture, if not printed to a3+, sharpening actually do not see the effect.

Final Effect Diagram:

Summarize

Please do not see PS as a scourge or almighty God, ps just perfect our photos of a technical means, it is for your creative service, and your body, lens, filter system.

PS avoid not one-step, try not to use those Photo studio action to complete your work, all the action, the preset is based on a relatively unified original film, in the studio commercial photographers can decorate the light every time, so he can use the same action to sell his goods.

I mainly to solve the following several problems with PS.

• The image of different areas of the same exposure, the entire picture of the exposure problem can be easily lossless in LR solution.

Hue and saturation, especially natural saturation, so that some color more prominent, such as red more red, yellow and so on.

• Permeability, remove the gray feeling, generally through the curve, color levels, superimposed gray layer to solve.

• The sharpness of the focus, making the whole picture look sharper.

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• PS Image Processing