Content
In “Exploring Editing” you’ll find a variety of Workshop recordings that dive deeply into some of my processes.
Beneath, you’ll find smaller “bite-sized” lessons on more specific skills, with more being added regularly.
Is there a particular editing skill, technique or tool you’d love to see covered here? Let me know!
Planned and Upcoming Editing Toolboxes (not in order):
- Content aware crop
- Content aware fill
- Using Curves layers
- Gradient for colour and contrast
- Remove collar and dust
- Remove harness
- Remove a person (coming April 2023)
- Fix cataracts
- Make a panorama/composite
- Mask out fur
- Day to night
- Add “sun”
- Colour change
- green to autumn
- make backlight warmer
- cool down snow
- bright green to deeper green
- Background flip (coming June 2023)
- Underexposed (coming 2023)
- Over exposed
- Fix/reduce blown highlights (coming August 2023)
- Straighten trees and fill edges
- Advanced clone-stamping
- Final steps/using the histogram
- Adding a watermark
- Liquify eyes closed
- Group photo of 4 dogs (headswaps) (coming July 2023)
- colour casts on white chest/dog
- removing fringing/chromatic aberration
- reducing haze/lens flare
- using Smart Objects
Returning to masks/adjustments made in LRLayers flowchart- how to clone/heal/content aware when using smart objects
fake snow (coming November 2023)- lantern light
Important Resources
Open in Photoshop, Save to Lightroom, Open in Photoshop again
Layers Flowchart
Not sure how to structure your layers in PS? Don't know when to hide layers, where to put your clone-stamp layers, when to smoosh layers, or why any of it matters? This is a Whiteboard from Canva (and/or PDF) to help you structure your workflow depending on what you want to do & what you've already done.
Workshops
Workshop: Curves in Photoshop
🥸 (all - with some PS knowledge) Curves adjustment layers! My favourite editing tool when it comes to light and dark tones in the image! Learn all about curves, how and why to use them.
Workshop: Fixing Backgrounds
(int/adv) Learn how to copy & move parts of the background, use the clone stamp, healing spot, content aware fill, content aware crop, and content aware scale tools.
Workshop: Shaping the Light
In this workshop, we're going to learn not only HOW to Shape Light, but also WHEN, and WHY. Best suited for INT/ADV students.
Changing Colours Workshop
Learn not only multiple tools to change the colours of your photos, but also looking into colour theory, and WHY you might want to make certain colour changes (and when not!)
Advanced Editing Workshop
Face and Eyes
How to: Edit & Brighten Eyes in Lightroom
Editing Eyes
Tips and tricks for working on eyes, particularly in Photoshop (there's a separate lesson for eyes in LR). Includes a downloadable High-pass action, and goes through the process for editing very dark brown eyes to get them lighter and with more colour, while staying natural
15 Minute Tutorial: Face Contouring
🤓🧐 (int/adv): Learn how to see & find the shapes of a dog's face to effectively dodge & burn for a 3D effect
Background, Scene, Composition
How to: Fix your composition on location (and in LR & PS)
[all] If you chop your dog's feet off, don't give them enough space to look into, or if they suddenly look in an unexpected direction, don't despair! This lesson is for you to fix those composition issues ON LOCATION, as well as how to use this technique once home.
Editing Toolbox: Reduce Highlights
Photoshop Beta: Generative Fill
Photoshop has just released PS Beta (May 2023) which includes a new AI Generative Fill feature. Let's check it out, see how to use it particularly to expand a canvas, and an example of filling in a blown out sky.
Effects, Overlays, Colours, Faking Things
How to: Add a Snow Overlay in Photoshop
If you've taken a snowy winter's photo but want it to feel even more wintery, or you feel like it's a bit "empty", adding a snow overlay or using some snow brushes could be a way to "fill in" the image a bit. This lesson will show you how to use a snow brush to add some falling snow to your photos.
How To: Use Overlays
Learn how to apply an overlay to a photo in Photoshop
15 Minute Techniques: From Grey Winter to Golden Backlight
[int/adv] Winter means a lot of dull, grey, boring skies. In this quick lesson I show you a few tools to "spice up" your sky or bokeh to give it a golden backlit effect.
Editing Toolbox: Grey-Green Warm Yellow Tones
All Colour Change Tools in LR and PS
In this lesson, I show you (pretty much) every single possible tool and technique in Lightroom and Photoshop that you can use to change colours, and discuss when you might want to use them (or not).
Editing Toolbox: Add Snow
Use Photoshop to add a layer of snow to any image. We're going to be using a selection tool, colour fill layer, and adjusting the luminosity of the blend! Quite a few new things here and perfect if you live somewhere that it doesn't snow but you want those winter vibes
Groups & People
20 Minute Tutorial: Merge Two Photos (Headswap!)
🥸 A 20 minute tutorial: combine two photos in Photoshop for head-swaps/background swaps etc.
Fixing Things
Image SOS: Episode 1
Image SOS on 3 images: Patchy highlights in background & on the dog, extreme shade on face, fixing composition, fixing blown out highlights
Image SOS: Composition
In this Image SOS we fix several images, especially the composition, by copying & flipping the background, cloning, and adding leafy overlays to hide not-so-great perspective, give some more depth to the image, and so on. Duration: 30 minutes
Editing Toolbox: Removing Noise
In this Editing Toolbox, we take a photo from the Christmas markets, taken at ISO 5000 and a bit under-exposed. I discuss noise, when it matters, lighten up the image to bring out some more noise, and then apply my favourite denoise tool in Lightroom, and test out Topaz Denoise. Duration: 25 minutes
Editing Toolbox: Brightening Underexposed Images
An editing toolbox focusing on underexposed photos, giving you a selection of tools and techniques to brighten your subject when they've been underexposed.
