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.
This is a bit of an older tutorial now, before Adobe updated the masking functions, so it’s still using just single radials.
That being said, the process is still pretty much what I would use today:
In this edit together, we have the option of several photos to edit. If you want to participate in the vote as to which one we’ll work on, make sure you go to the Learning Community and cast your vote in our poll! Click here to vote!
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The aim of this session will be:
A lot of people ask for tutorials in various situations, and while I have tried to create (and will continue creating) a variety of different tutorials, at the end of the day, most of my tutorials follow the same, basic process and workflow.
Below, I’ve listed most of the steps that I follow… however, I don’t follow EVERY step in EVERY photo. You will need to know your way around Lightroom & Lightroom masking features, and know how to mask in Photoshop in order to follow this tutorial.
Generally, the workflow is:
Once you’ve finished, why not share your work!?
Download the image below to use in your Instagram stories. Just right click > Save as/Save Image.
Simply go to the stories area as normal, select to upload this image, go back to your camera roll, copy your edit, add some text to the story, and paste the photo in.
Or, you can add your image to the template in Photoshop!
Or, use the editable Canva template!
Don’t forget to tag @inspawrationphotography somewhere so I can celebrate your learning!
Don’t worry if the image looks blurry, it’ll be fine when you download it full size.
This tutorial will take you from start to finish editing a slightly under-exposed, backlit photo of Journey.
In order to do this tutorial, you’ll want:
This techniques in this tutorial will work best with:
Since this is one of my favourite photos, it’s one I would prefer that edits do not get posted on social media.
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 we’re going to work on this photo of Ike & Cecilia, cuddling in the green woods.
You are welcome to edit along, but I’ll ask you not to share this one on social media! Thanks!
After I finished recording, I went and cooled down the image a bit, as it finished feeling a bit too yellow/warm for me. Other than that I don’t think I changed anything afterwards.
This tutorial takes place on Lightroom only, and discusses with some emphasis making editing choices or having an editing rationale, rather than blindly following a tutorial.
This tutorial will work best if you have explored around Lightroom before, even if you aren’t totally comfortable using it.
We will discuss:
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