Editing Styles
Sean Dalton
Lessons
Class Overview
03:30 2The Power of Mobile Editing
04:43 3The Digital Anatomy of a Photograph
01:35 4Class Project
00:28 5Raw vs. Jpeg and Adobe .Dng files
03:06 6Chapter 2: Quiz
Exposure and Emotion
06:00 8Color Theory and Emotion
17:25 9Editing and Storytelling
02:02 10Editing Styles
02:48 11Editing - The Right and the Wrong
01:10 12Finding your Editing Style
04:19 13Chapter 3: Quiz
14The Best Mobile Editing Apps
03:20 15Chapter 4: Quiz
16Lightroom Mobile CC Overview
08:21 17Lightroom Mobile CC Editing Workflow
02:59 18Chapter 5: Quiz
19Importing Photos and Organization
03:15 20Prepping the Photo
02:15 21Editing Exposure and Tone Curve
09:20 22Editing Color
05:29 23Effects and Details
11:33 24Fine-Tuning With Selective Edits
04:25 25Presets and Why You Should Use Them
02:59 26Common Editing Mistakes
04:34 27Chapter 6: Quiz
28Example One - Moody Portrait
07:21 29Example Two - Epic Travel Landscape
05:56 30Example Three - Warm Lifestyle
05:28 31Example Four - Gritty Street Photo
05:38 32How to Become a Better Editor
03:21 33Conclusion
01:39 34Chapter 8: Quiz
35Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Editing Styles
Okay, now I want to talk about editing styles and you might be thinking sean, there's like a ba jillion editing styles. We just looked at adobe color CC. And you could see all of those different color combinations. I mean the possibilities are endless. Yes, but in my opinion, there's two main categories of editing styles, there's realism and they're stylized. So realism is basically trying to capture the most realistic look is possible. So capturing colors that are most closely related to reality. Um and same with light. So it's maintaining the true nature of when that picture was took. So this is popular with like photo journalists or people that are trying to capture things as realistic as possible. Whereas the other side of things is a stylized looks that's using colors that maybe aren't that natural. Um but you're using those colors because you want to have a photo that maybe sparks a different emotion or is aesthetically pleasing in its own way. So a lot of photographers kind of f...
ind a balance between the two. They might go for a stylized look that's stylized but not overly stylized. So they're still using colors, colors that are somewhat natural and maybe in some situations they might appear that way in nature, but most of the time they don't. Um and some photographers, you know, they like to go full on realistic and they just try to keep the colors as natural as possible personally. I think the stylized look is really cool, but at the same time, I don't like to stray too far from reality and make it look too foreign. But you can get some really, really cool looks when it comes to the stylized edits some popular ones that are going around online right now are the CN or blue and orange look. Um there's also the CNN pink or green and pink. You know, these are colors that aren't very natural. They don't actually occur that often. Um maybe in cities. They do, but for the most part they're not naturally occurring colors. But that doesn't mean they don't look cool and that doesn't mean they don't look good in images. So I just want you to think about, you know, where do you fit in? Are you going for a more realistic look? Are you going for an overly stylized look? Are you trying to find something in the middle? I think it's important to look at, you know, painters in the past, A lot of them were divided. A lot of them wanted to do realism ultra realism. They thought that true talent belonged in realism where other painters and other artists thought that it doesn't matter if it's realistic. It's about the aesthetic beauty of the image of the painting of the photo. So where do you fit in there? Are you more interested in a stylized look or a realistic look? That's something else to think about as you go on because that's an important step in finding your own unique style is to kind of find where you fit in on that spectrum of realism versus stylized.