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Photoshop: Edit Live Shoot Images

So let's go into Photoshop first for you Photoshop people. I'm gonna just pull these into Photoshop. Okay these are the ones I've chosen. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do similar images in Photoshop the same lighting situations as we did for LightRoom, okay. So let's go and start with Photoshop. Now. Oh, everything's tiny. I'm gonna tell you guys that I use my own actions to edit everything. I'm gonna show you both ways, I'm gonna show you how to hand edit, and then use the actions if you want to have a quicker way here. I'm used to having a bigger.. Hold on, let me get situated here. Okay, why is everything so tiny? Okay, so let's start with this one. As you can tell right over here, we need to brighten all this up. Also what I want to do is I want to get rid of some of this extra space over here that was going on. Can you guys see my mouth okay? I think I'm a little bit delayed, am I? A little bit? So I'm gonna crop this, and to crop I just hit the C and I hold down the shift key. R...

ight now what I'm doing is compositionally fixing this to where I want it to be. If you hold the shift key down when you crop it keeps everything the same perspective. So that's a little bit better crop for me. So the first thing that I'm gonna wanna do is I'm gonna wanna kind of brighten some of what's going on back here. So you guys can see that. So what I'm gonna do is, I do a lot of curves layers, so I'm gonna go ahead and do my curves layer. Pull up curves. We're gonna brighten the mid-tones. I normally edit on my iMac, so.. So you pull this up a little bit. And I'm gonna pull this down a little bit. Little bit tiny bit of an S curve, okay? So what that did was it brought the color up a little bit. Another thing, you guys are gonna notice in homes that have beige walls, a lot of homes pull green, so what I like to do is pull some of that yellow and turn it a little bit pinker to get somewhat rid of that green hue. So what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna go down to the hue saturation, and I'm gonna go to yellows, and what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna change the saturation and lightness, which a lot of us like to do. I'm actually gonna make the yellows a little bit pinker. So I'm gonna pull these to the left. You see how that warmed them up? Let me show you before and after. There's the before, and the after. You see how it got ride of some of the green? And you guys are gonna run into this a lot with lifestyle sessions for whatever reason. Especially Nikon cameras pull green. So this is a really good trick to pull that hue layer over in the yellow. So I'm gonna go ahead and take a picture of this. I'm gonna go to my history panel and take a picture. I'm gonna flatten this. And then I'm gonna go ahead and add a little bit of haze to this and some matte finish and call it a day. I live in curves, literally. So let's get a little bit of a matte finish. So what I'm gonna do is make a little anchor point right here in this bottom left-hand quadrant and pull this side up. It gives a little more of a matte finish. I'm gonna get another curves layer, and this is why I love my actions, I don't sell for elements, 'cause you don't have curves. Let's get another curves layer. And I'm gonna go ahead and I'm actually gonna take this down a little bit. That gives it the filmy look, and I kind of like that. Or we can pull it over, you know, brighten it that way, too. So that's pretty much all I would do to this image. I like to keep things pretty natural. There's before and after. Okay, it's clean. Now let me show you what we would do is if we were gonna use one of these, what I do typically. Typically I edit in Lightroom. This set I'm about to use is in Lightroom as well. So for something like this I would probably do, so this is from my clean set, I just wanna show you this. I'm not trying to sell actions on here, I just wanna show you guys what I do typically. There are two sets in here and I have this made specifically for that pink hue. So you'll see everything has Clean Start one with a neutral, Clean Start two with a neutral, so if you guys have this set already, the first one adds that pink for you for those homes that have a little bit of green in them, or if you have beige in them so you don't actually need to go in there and fix that hue. So I'm gonna go ahead and do filmy matte, I like this action. I'm gonna pull that down, and now what it did, is it brought too much highlight back over here, so I'm just gonna go ahead and mask that off and be done with it. So this is how I edit, this is how I edit so quickly. But I do this in Lightroom 'cause I have this set for Lightroom, so it's easier. That brush opacity was too hard. So wanna see the before and after? Before, after. One click. So this is what I do for everything pretty much, is use this clean set of the beautiful light set. Let's just do another one from this one and then we can move over. Anybody have any questions so far? Yes. Emily, can you just see where your settings were and where were you focusing in the photo? Right here, on her face. And i think I was at 3.2, let me see. Let's see what we were at, I think we were at, yup, 3.2. That's crazy I remembered that. That gave us a little bit of wiggle room 'cause the son kept falling backwards a little bit. Did you guys see when I was shooting I placed a pillow behind him on purpose to bring him forward for that focal point. Let's do, which one do you guys wanna see? Let's do this one. That. Okay, same thing with this you guys, I am a big curves user. Big time curves user. Curves, let's bring this up. This is a shot I loved 'cause the tongue-licking right here, right? Pull up that mid-tone look it just sticks just by doing that. Go in curves layer. This is why if you have elements you really need Photoshop. Just for curves. Literally you guys, this is what I would do for every image. Come in here, hue saturation, I'm very simple. Yellows, get rid of some of that green tone in their face, you see that, look at that. Before and after. It's a time saver you guys with this. Because I don't know what it is with beige, but man, it really pulls green. And you know when you're fixing your temperature in your camera you're fixing the warmth of the cool, not the magenta or the green, so we always get that issue. Let's go into another layer, we'll do matte finish. Put a little knot right there. Pull this puppy up, we got some matte finish. Sometimes they'll do this more and then mask it off their face, you know, a little bit. Then I might come in here and pull my curves up even higher just to pull those shadows down, or the mid-tones up and the shadows down. Same thing with this, we would use one of these probably, and do.. I'll show a different one, Clean Start, maybe. Just a clean set, pull it down. I have these set so you can pull down the whole thing and then mask off what you want. I still like this filmy one on this session for some reason. I just like the film look. Before and after. And I don't mind this being bright. I kind of like that being bright around there, actually. It looks different for you guys than it does in here, but let's do this one. Because what do you see large and clear in that picture? My foot, and that happens all the time. So the first thing to do for this picture, obviously, command J, and I like to use the content aware tool over here so you're gonna get your little lasso tool over here, the polygonal lasso tool. Make a different layer. And obviously this is not like an editing workshop, so I know some people might be kind of lost, 'cause to talk about how to do each layer could take a lot of time. So I'm gonna go ahead and content aware this out. So I'm making little tiny clicks right now, as much as I wanna see my foot. Then you click fill and it's gone. And I probably clone stamp this and fix that a little bit to my liking. All right, flatten this out. Curves, I'm very predictable. Curves, okay let's make a little S pop, but I don't like to do my S over here, I like to do it more in the mid-tones. And then over here, let's flatten that. Let's do a different king of haze, I'll show you guys. Levels, then you guys can actually pull this over. I'm so used to editing on my big computer. See how that goes haze, there's some haze right there. Now, let me show you something. Included in your set, or included in your class is an action called Bring it Forward. Bring it Forward is also renamed, oops. Bring it Forward is also named Cut the Haze in the Hazy Dreams set. You can find it in Dream in Color. I wanna show you guys something. It might be hard to see for viewers at home, I'm gonna zoom in. Do you see how it's kind of hazy around the edges, right there? And that's what people don't like about haze, so I made this action, what it does, is it actually pulls your subject out of the haze. I'll show you. Ready? Here we go. It's very exciting stuff. Bring it forward, here we go. Boom. Ready I'm gonna show before and after, watch his eyes. Before and after. Before.. And obviously you can turn that down if you want to. Let's bring it forward. So if you have any hazy images and you wanna just bring out the crazy edging on people.. Do you, as you're delivering to the clients, do you deliver in sort of one image style, look and feel for that session or that family, or do you have.. That's like maybe your signature style. Or do you have, using different actions, different sets of things that look a little bit different? All of my action sets match. You'll see more in Lightroom, 'cause I batch it in Lightroom now. You can batch in Photoshop as well. I just recently have become addicted to Light room. And I can do everything I want. You know, if I'm in Lightroom and I need to clone things, I'll bring it back here obviously and get the cloning done. But everything looks similar, how I edit. And I only use my actions, we can hand edit too, it looks similar, obviously. But yeah, it's kind of my look. I try to keep it all similar so whenever I'm creating.. I created these for myself before I decided to sell them. Real quick I do wanna show you this one. So this is one of the ones we saw. With this one I believe I used from the new, I think I used filmy matte. And I wanted to show you how this looked.. Isn't that cool looking? So the reason I wanted to show you this is, a lot of people would be scared of blowing all that out right? There's a lot of detail lost in that background. For me, I love it. And I might have photographers out there doing this to me right now. (hands smacking) but I love that look, and there's nothing blown out on their skin, so I'm okay with that. So if you guys are editing something, if this happens, and you love the way it looks, let some of those rules go, it's fine. Like, you guys need to be you, you know? Just, the rule of thumb is just down blow out skin. And if a little part gets clicked, you can patch tool it and fix it, you know? So don't worry about that.