You will find the recording of the live editing tutorial here, within 72 hours of the live (hopefully. If I can find fast enough wifi somewhere in Norway.)
You can download the RAW files here.
Thank you to the wonderful Daniela Zumkehr for letting us work on her photo!
This ended up being a HUGE edit! I chose this photo because I saw the potential for something magical, something a bit different to what we had many tutorials of already, some things that needed fixing, and some skills we could work on.
You’ll find this tutorial in both the “Q&As/Community Connect” section of the site, as well as the “Editing Tutorials” so don’t be confused if you come across it twice.
In the tutorial we:
You are welcome to share this photo on social media! It would be great if you let people know you followed along an @inspawrationphotography live edit together, and of course that the photo was taken by @tierfotografie.bayern_
I would also want to add a gentle snow overlay to this one but I don’t have time right Now! You can check out the snow overlay lessons in Exploring > Editing Tools
My version is looking more yellow than I’d like but the colour profile on my computer is currently being pretty weird so I’m not sure how much I trust it right now.
How to add it to your story (iOS Version, but I’m sure Android is similar?)
I originally took this photo in 2020 or 2021 and came back to re-edit it!
Going through my full process from start to finish in Lightroom and Photoshop (2023), you can download the files and follow along as I work!
You guys voted in the Learning Community, and “simple winter (dead grass, brown, backlit) won out – so this is what we’ll be editing for our next edit together!
You can download the files below. Inside the folder you’ll find 2 variations of the “Main” photo – one looking forward, one to the side.
We’ll be working on the one looking to the side, but you’re welcome to download the other one if you want an extra photo to play with (but be aware, the way we shape the light would likely differ for a photo with the dog looking to the side vs looking forward!)
There are RAW files and JPEG so choose the ones you need/that work with your software
NOTE FOR GERMAN-SPEAKING STUDENTS: There is a German version of this workflow tutorial. Check it out here
In this tutorial, I (Sabrina) will show my whole editing workflow from start to finish with a hawthorn blossom photo. We are going to work on a photo, that normally might have ended up in the trash – at least for me before I knew what was possible in editing and how I could do it. So with a few tricks and adding flowers from a different photo, we will save the image and turn it into a pretty flowery portrait!
It might help if you have a decent knowledge of Photoshop, but explain every step very detailed, so you should be able to follow along, even as a beginner.
What we’re going to do in this tutorial:
You can of course download the RAW files and edit along.
Have fun!
Sabrina from Team Inspawration
In meinem (Sabrinas) Blütenzauber Workflow Videotraining bearbeiten wir zusammen ein weißdorn Blütennbild. Dabei verwandeln wir ein RAW Bild, welches vor einem Jahr noch im Papierkorb gelandet wäre, mit ein paar Tricks ein schönes blumiges Portrait. Es handelt sich dabei genau um das gleiche Videotrianing wie in meinem Shop.
Es ist hilfreich, wenn du bereits ein wenig Grundwissen über Lightroom und Photoshop hast, aber es ist nicht notwendig, da ich alles sehr detailliert erkläre, da es normal ein alleinstehendes Training ist.
Was du in dem Workflow erwarten kannst:
Natürlich kannst du die RAW Dateien herunterladen und gleich mit bearbeiten!
Viel Spaß!
Sabrina vom Team Inspawration
This was such a fun little edit! Making a panorama, taking our overly bright photo and deepening those greens, working through so many of my normal process.
Make sure you download the 4 raw files from above. To take this photo, I used my panorama technique which I cover in depth in the Learning Journey. But in this case, I’d gotten a bit too close to Hijinx as I’d only JUST gotten into position but hadn’t framed up the photo yet, and was expecting him to look toward me, when he looked so beautifully to the side and into this lighter, open space.
I could either forgo the shot and move backward/change my perspective to be lower, and wait for him to look at me to have better composition…
Or I could take the photo with the perfect gazing direction and expression, and take extra photos of the scene to “build out” later in editing. So, that’s what we’re going to do.
Make sure you check out the step by step editing process that accompanies this video, but remember! You don’t have to do the exact settings as me, with the exact numbers.
In this tutorial using Lightroom & Photoshop and following most of my normal process, we are going to work on a well-exposed photo of Luke, a red merle Australian Shepherd.
You will need decent knowledge of Lightroom & using radial filters, as well of how to use masks and adjustment layers in Photoshop.
In this tutorial we will:
Note: I probably wouldn’t (and didn’t!) give my client the flipped version of the photo. Why?
Because Luke has two VERY distinctive sides to his face, with his mismatched eyes and mismatched ears, and I want the photo to properly represent him, rather than flowing more comfortable. For social media though, I’ll post the flipped version.
In this tutorial, I work on a reasonably underexposed image of Amie, that I took for a collar company (hence the weird composition of the photo!) .
I had recently jumped on a couple of zoom calls with some LC students who were using programs other than Photoshop, and neither of them had access to radial filters, so had made their own work-arounds, which is amazing, but, the problem with these work arounds were that they couldn’t be re-edited later.
A big part of my process and the way I work, is ensuring that any of my edits are able to be changed later down the track – whether at the very base level of being able to easily adjust the white balance of my RAW file by working with my photos as smart objects, or by using adjustment layers and keeping any changes to the “base image” at the bottom of my layers panel. As much as possible, my process allows me to be flexible, to come back at any point and make changes to the edited image.
This isn’t always possible (for example when doing a content aware fill or content aware crop that covers the original image file. But for the most part, my edits can always be undone, turned off, changed slightly, added to, etc.
What I realised from these zoom calls was that a) not everybody had access to radial filters, and b) possibly some people find them fiddly and time consuming, or just don’t like them. So in this editing tutorial, I ditched them completely. No radial filters at all.
I use Camera Raw Filter to begin with – this is basically Lightroom and includes all the most basic functions of any editing software, making global adjustments to the image/RAW file.
The rest I do in Photoshop.
There are some slightly different techniques in here to what I’ve shown before, a bit of an explanation about how I would organise my layers when needing to do some clone stamping or healing spot brush, and some other interesting bits and pieces that I don’t think I’ve shown before.
The tutorial will probably be best if you have a reasonable knowledge of Photoshop (or your editing program). I don’t explain how to mask something in or out in detail, for example.
In this tutorial we’re going to working though my process to create one of my favourite pictures of my friend Annika’s dog Sadie, in the woods.
The first part of the tutorial was recorded from my van, while livestreaming on Facebook…. then my computer had an absolute meltdown, so I finished recording the tutorial later, without being live. Therefore the first part looks like pretty lousy quality, but the information is still good!
Since this is a photo for Annika, I won’t be offering the RAW file for download this time. You can of course edit along on one of your own photos, just keep in mind there’s a few elements in this photo that make the tutorial work, which won’t work with every photo:
In this tutorial, we combine 3 RAW file images to create one panorama, giving Petrie enough room below his feet and space above his head for him to look into. We also use a fern overlay for some foreground blur/to add a bit more depth. You can find the files in the download folder.
This is one of those images that I came back to later in Lightroom and made some reasonable changes to, from the point where we finish the tutorial.
Namely:
Yess I could have achieved the same effects in PS but I couldn’t be bothered opening it there again when I knew LR could do the job I wanted anyway.
Below: Before / After the Tutorial / After my LR edits
