In this tutorial we take a slightly underexposed image of poodle Avi, and using both LR and PS do a full tutorial, turning it into a warm, backlight-type image.
There’s plenty of black dog specific information in here, as well as looking at:
- coat colour and contrast
- working a bit on brightening dark eyes
- creating warmth in the background
- radial gradients for background haze
- contouring the face for more contrast
- selective colour for more warmth and yellow/orange tones
- creating some fake rim-light
- adding some radial blur for an interesting “movement” effect
Liv Moore has kindly allowed LC members to download the RAW file. If you want to post your edits on social media, you are welcome to do so, but please make it clear that the photo was taken by @livemoorewithavi
After I stopped filming, I: placed a radial filter over Avi & surrounds increasing exposure by +.30 – removing it from the bokeh to his right and raised all-over exposure by +.15. It’s pretty normal for me to lighten everything again once its saved to Lightroom. Don’t feel like once you save to LR that you aren’t allowed to do a couple more edits there!
