Lesson Info
17. Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
Lessons
Class Introduction: What is Light Painting?
03:45 2Camera Considerations
16:18 3Camera Settings and Initial Exposures
09:26 4Light Painting Accessories
04:05 5The Color of Light
05:21 6Focusing in the Dark
03:13 7Light Painting Techniques
08:30 8Lightroom: Basic Panel
14:14Lightroom: Presence Panel Adjustments
06:05 10Lightroom: Hue, Saturation, Luminance
05:17 11Lightroom: Local Adjustments
16:46 12From Lightroom to Photoshop
11:55 13Photoshop: Lighten Blending Mode
04:31 14Photoshop: Star Stacking
03:17 15Photoshop: Layer Opacity
03:25 16Photoshop: Selection and Masks
05:55 17Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
05:46Lesson Info
Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
So at this point, do remember, though, folks, I would go in and adjust these images in light room first. Remember, we want to do all of our global adjustments that we can and light room before we eventually go into photo shop. So let's take a quick peek here of maybe one of the brighter ones. Let's go to this and I go to the develop module and say, First of all, where do we start? His camera neutral. Good. Do we want to go to camera Standard? Does that look better? It's a little contrast E, um camera landscapes going to be even more contrast. That's just way too much. Um, I think I'm to try camera standard. All right, now, next we can come up and say, Well, how did the highlights look? How does the brightness look? This image feels a little bit dark for me, even though it is light painted. So I'll bring up my exposure. Just a touch. And I don't want my this to get too terribly blown out, although that is in the fog, so I could bring my highlights down a little bit. And now I'm gonna lo...
ok at my Hester. Graham, make sure I have some good overall looks like I am blowing out some highlights here. Where is that? Just tiny little bits in there so we can stand an increase in the white. And the reason I'm going for that increase in the white again, you guys is just to expand that overall contrast. Um, let's anchor are blacks by pulling those down and then lift our shadows up a little bit. All right, that should do it. Now, the trick is I want to apply that across all of the images. So all of my four images are selected down here. 1234 This is the most selective. So when I hit synchronize, it's gonna take all the adjustments and apply it across those photographs. It's synchronize. Okay. Now, when I returned to the grid module and say photo at it in open as layers in Photoshop once again, it's gonna drag all four of these photographs, create a copy. It's gonna turn into a tiff and is gonna put these four tiff files into one single file in photo shop. All right, so here we are. You just magnified that a little bit Here's our layers palette. So first thing we'll do is auto Align. I don't remember kicking my tripod. Who knows? Perhaps I did. So let's select all those four layers and choose Well, you know, before you guys go ahead and do that, you can actually just physically, manually. Just look at this. Take that one off. Does it move? Oh, it does. Look at that. It did move a little bit in between. So that's it. You have to do auto align at it. Bottom line layers, auto click. OK, that photo shop work its magic. All right, All these layers already selected people. All we have to do is go up to choose from normal choose, lighten and boom. All of our light painting comes out in one photograph, and at this point, you could call it done. But we're ambitious. I don't like that grace guy. I like the color of the grass. I like the color of the pipe. I don't like that grace guy. So what I'm gonna do is make a selection. I could use a quick select owned. By the way. You guys, there's lots of selection tools. This is only one. We could spend six hours just simply talking about different selections, probably much longer than that days. So I'm just showing you just a rudimentary, uh, selection tool here in the quick selectable. I'm gonna click on it and click on one of my top most photographs and just use my bracket key to enlarge it and then click and drag that selects that area. I could click, drag through, click and drag through, click and drag through, click and drag through same thing here and choose these little areas. And now I could come in tight and just select that area there and same thing here. And that's gonna be roughly what I need. Anything else I think I could probably pain in. Let's just grab this area back here as well. All right? Now, at this point, with a selection active, if I create an adjustment layer, it will turn that selection into the adjustment layer and masks so once again, will goto color balance and you can see our mass that we created White is where the change will come through. So we're gonna alter the sky here. This is my knob. So when I grab on that I get my color balance up here and now I can push this towards blue again to make that sky a little bit more interesting. That's getting close to purple. So I'll take my red slider and move it to Scion a little bit, and I should do the trick. So we've turned a cloudy night, raining the whole time into a final, photographed by taking multiple shots, light painting differently in each shot, bringing them into Photoshopped, blending them together in Layton blending mode and using a quick, select tool to create decent selection and turned it into a mask with our color balance tool toe, darken the sky and make it a little bit more blue. Just remember, the most important thing is no fear, right? We've covered everything. Now, from your basic basic camera set ups to getting out in the field to how to focus in the dark, we've talked about how you're gonna light paint, how you're gonna Teoh, check your color, change your white balance, and we've brought it all back home to the computer and the processing. So you guys have seen it all now, um, so as they say, get out there and conquer. Don't be afraid. Just get out there and experiment and have a lot of fun
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