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- What's up guys, it's Andy Feliciotti,
and today I'm gonna show you...
I don't know what I did with my drone.
What's up guys, it's Andy Feliciotti,
and today we're gonna talk about drone editing.
I'm too lazy to get the drone out of my car,
so I'm sure if you have one, you know...
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So if you're anything like me,
you switched over your photos to raw on the DJI Mavic,
and I don't know, just when I got my photos in Lightroom
I was a little underwhelmed.
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But I think I found a pretty good technique
to edit the photos, and I'm gonna show you today.
So the one thing I noticed
is that the colors aren't that accurate,
or like, I don't know, just seems grainy.
The first thing you might wanna do is increase saturation,
but I noticed that doesn't really give me the effect I want,
so I found that using the brush tool,
and actually drawing the colors onto the scene,
so if you have a bunch of green trees,
you can actually draw green onto the scene,
or you can actually
change the colors of the trees to anything you want.
So we're gonna increase our brush size here.
Now you'll notice I have the Auto Mask on.
This is really important, because you want the Auto Mask on,
because it'll select the color selectively
as you're doing it.
So as you're actually using the brush tool, you can hit O,
and it'll show you where you're overlaying,
so you can see how it's mainly
just picking the greens out of this area.
So if I turn that off,
I can actually get the little left-behind tones there,
but I usually keep it on just for the sake of convenience.
Now this is gonna be a really quick tutorial.
I'm not gonna go in-depth with every little piece.
So yeah, after you select your trees
or whatever you're trying to color, you can hit O,
and you can see I have everything highlighted now.
Some missing parts there, but we'll ignore that for now.
I usually turn the saturation down all the way,
and then go down to Color.
You can actually pick the color that's overlaid
on top of the brush.
I want it to be more natural, so I'm gonna go with green.
Now just from that,
you can see the color just looks richer and more vibrant,
and yeah,
you can actually do this with every part of the scene.
For example,
if you're doing it for the dirt, put the saturation down,
go to a brownish color.
Sometimes I notice it's too bright,
I just put the exposure down to adjust for that.
This might be a little bit too colorful,
so you can adjust the intensity here.
If this was a final photo,
I'd be individually going in
and correcting all the mistakes I'm doing
with the brush tool.
So to actually erase, I usually do the overlay,
so you hit O again to overlay.
So if there's areas where it's not all correct,
I usually hold Alt,
and I do the same thing, I erase.
Make sure the Auto Mask is on,
so you can Auto Mask the color out of it,
and you can go back and add it in.
So I'll do that for pretty much all the edges in the photo.
And yeah, that's pretty much it.
The fun part about this tip is
that you can change all of your colors,
so if you wanted a red forest,
you might have to play around with the exposure, et cetera,
but you can get pretty cool effects
if you really like your photos to be modified.
But yeah, here are some of the examples
that I've done with this technique.
So you can see here, I've made the forest completely yellow.
Let me go to the before photo.
And I still think it gives it a natural-ish look.
You know, obviously, this isn't completely real.
I made the water a lot bluer,
and the trees yellow, for example, but yeah,
I just figured it was a better way
to make my drone photos pop more.
I was kinda disappointed with the photos
straight out of the camera.
And here's one of my more popular photos
that I did the technique on.
I actually made the forest all red.
Thanks for watching, guys,
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My username if @someguy on Instagram.
Have a good day.
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