Blooming spring tutorial
Since some of you guys have been curious about my editing process, I made a tutorial/peek at how I edited this shot "Blooming Spring"'.
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Blooming Spring tutorial!
Since some of you guys have been curious about my editing process, I made a tutorial/peek at how I edited this shot "Blooming Spring".
So this is the result we want to get. I edited this shot in Adobe Photoshop, so you need this software if you would like to follow this tutorial.
My processing style is quite comprehensive, so I never do the exact same stuff to pictures. Because of that, I will just show you how I edited this picture and want you to remeber that every photo has a unlike starting points. In this tutorial you will get insight in the basics of my processing.
After you have imported your photo into photoshop, you will have something like this on your screen.
The first I do with my photographies is usually too increas the contrast. For this I use Curves.
So press the icon I've maked on the picture to the right, and select curves. This will give you a adjustment layer, wich means that the change you do sticks to this layer, and not the background layer where your photo is.
I sat my curves layer like this.
The next step I did was to select another curves layer to adjust some colors.
This next step is a big part of the secret behind the, kind of, dim and faded color tones in my style.
Go to layer, up in the navbar, and select New Fill Layer > Solid Color...
Like this.
So this is the adjustments I did in the Selective Color layer. This step do always give the pictures a new personality, and is one if my favorite tools in Photoshop.
Next comes Curves nr. 5. Here I adjusted RGB and the Blue channel.
For this layer, I chose a purpleish color. I then sat the blending mode to exclusion as always, and set the opacity to 10%.
This will merge all of the layers you have in the layers palette into one new layer that will appear as the top layer. If you forget to hold down alt when selecting Merge Visible, you will end up with one layer only, and lose all the other layers.
Select this new layer, and go to Filter in the navbar. Select then Other > High Pass...
In the High Pass box that appeares, set the radius to something between 1 - 3 pixels, depending on the size of your raw photo.
I chose 1,6.
What you will get now is a grey layer, with your picture printed in it. Select the layer and set the blending mode to something from the collumn with Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light etc. I chose Linear Light, this gives the strongest sharpening. You can also duplicate this layer if you want it even sharper.
This was the last step. With my name, and the title of the image printed on it, it lookes like this :
I hope you found this tutorial interesting and usefull. If you've got any questions you can comment this post, or email me at Ivarsimonsen@hotmail.com.
Ivar
So this is the result we want to get. I edited this shot in Adobe Photoshop, so you need this software if you would like to follow this tutorial.
My processing style is quite comprehensive, so I never do the exact same stuff to pictures. Because of that, I will just show you how I edited this picture and want you to remeber that every photo has a unlike starting points. In this tutorial you will get insight in the basics of my processing.
After you have imported your photo into photoshop, you will have something like this on your screen.
The first I do with my photographies is usually too increas the contrast. For this I use Curves.
So press the icon I've maked on the picture to the right, and select curves. This will give you a adjustment layer, wich means that the change you do sticks to this layer, and not the background layer where your photo is.
I sat my curves layer like this.
The next step I did was to select another curves layer to adjust some colors.
Here I just adjusted the blue and the red channel like this.
And this was the result after the change.
This next step is a big part of the secret behind the, kind of, dim and faded color tones in my style.
Go to layer, up in the navbar, and select New Fill Layer > Solid Color...
I chose a blueish color.
Press OK, and select the Color Fill layer, then change it's blending mode to Exclusion and set the opacity of the layer to somewhere around 10 - 20%. The blending mode is where it says Normal in your layers palette.
The next step was also a curves layer. This time I adjusted all the channels.
With this result.
The next step is a Selective Color layer. This is a very comprehensive adjustment because it deals with all the colors in the picture one-by-one. You can find it the same place as the curves, under the adjustment layer icon.
This is how the picture looks now.
Next comes Curves nr. 5. Here I adjusted RGB and the Blue channel.
Next is another Color Fill layer.
After the Color Fill layer, my picture lookes like this.
Now, we have come to the final layer. This one is also very important in my editing style.
It is to sharpen up the picture with the High Pass filter.
The first thing you have to do, is to right-click on the top layer, then hold down the alt key on your keyboard, and select Merge Visible.
This will merge all of the layers you have in the layers palette into one new layer that will appear as the top layer. If you forget to hold down alt when selecting Merge Visible, you will end up with one layer only, and lose all the other layers.Select this new layer, and go to Filter in the navbar. Select then Other > High Pass...
In the High Pass box that appeares, set the radius to something between 1 - 3 pixels, depending on the size of your raw photo.
What you will get now is a grey layer, with your picture printed in it. Select the layer and set the blending mode to something from the collumn with Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light etc. I chose Linear Light, this gives the strongest sharpening. You can also duplicate this layer if you want it even sharper.
This was the last step. With my name, and the title of the image printed on it, it lookes like this :
I hope you found this tutorial interesting and usefull. If you've got any questions you can comment this post, or email me at Ivarsimonsen@hotmail.com.
Ivar