- What's up, guys?
It's Andy Feliciotti,
and welcome back to another video.
If you follow me on Instagram,
you may've seen this fall photo I posted.
I thought I'd make a quick video
showing you how to edit your fall photos using Lightroom,
plus using a PNG overlay
to add a leaf foreground to your photos,
using Photoshop.
It's pretty easy and takes a few minutes,
so let's hop right in.
So, you can see, we're here in Lightroom
and we have a photo up from Rock Creek Park, in DC.
The colors are lookin' pretty good here,
so I thought this would be a good example.
First, we're gonna add the overlay,
since we're gonna add edits on top of it,
so we're gonna right-click on our photo,
hit edit in,
and do edit in Photoshop.
You can see I already have a falling leaf overlay,
that I have here,
that I found online.
I'll add the link to this
in the description of this video.
But, if you don't wanna use this one,
you can always go to Google
and go to image search,
and type in PNG overlay leaves,
and you can see, there's tons of examples here to use.
I just found this one
and liked the shape of the leaves,
so let's hop back into Photoshop.
Now we're gonna bring that overlay
into the photo itself,
drag it in.
We're gonna make it a bit bigger here.
Maybe even make it sideways,
to match our portrait orientation.
Now you can see, the leaves are actually green,
that came in,
so we actually want these to be orange,
so let's hop over to image,
adjustments,
and do hue and saturation,
you can also hit command 'u' to bring this panel up.
And we're gonna colorize.
And, you can see, that doesn't look correct,
but we can actually shift this
to the more reddish hues,
increase the saturation,
and play with the brightness, here.
So, modify this accordingly, to your photo,
to get the tone right.
I kinda like this orange color, here.
Hit okay.
Now you can see, we have orange leaves.
Now, the second thing we need to do
is go to filters, blur,
gaussian blur.
So we're gonna increase the blur,
'cause, you can see, they're kind of in focus
and that doesn't look correct
in the context of the photo,
so we're gonna increase the blur, here.
Think around
60, here, looks good.
Hit okay.
So, these are the quick edits that we just did.
And, if there's a leaf in a position
that you don't want to be there,
you can actually create a mask, down here.
This little button, here.
And you have a white pallet of a mask,
so we'll go to our black color, here.
Go to our brush,
and you can actually just
brush out whatever leaves you don't want.
And that's it,
you have some leaves on your photo,
as simple as that.
Now, it looks kind of off right now,
but once we get the colors more aligned
to the leaves that we've added,
it'll look a little better.
So let's save the image.
After saving the image,
it will be brought back into Lightroom, automatically.
So, you can see, we're here, we already have an image here.
So, the first thing I like to do
is hit tone,
and hit auto.
I think the auto feature in Lightroom
is actually really great.
I'm gonna bring up the shadows a little more,
and bring in the highlights a little more.
And the most important thing
for our color shifting, that we're gonna do here,
is the HSL area.
You can see, there's hue, saturation, luminance.
The first thing you're gonna wanna do
is shift the hues of your yellows and greens.
So you can see,
that instantly makes it look like a fall photo.
And you can make it green, of course, if you want.
Make sure to definitely play with the values.
I'm gonna make this more in the negative side,
and the green hue,
we're gonna change that to be more orange,
so now, everything's looking orange
and congruent together.
You can also play with the saturation.
Oranges, here,
let me do the oranges up, a little bit,
the yellows,
maybe leave it as it was.
And the luminance will actually change
the brightness of each color,
so if you want it to be a really bright yellow,
bright orange, things like that.
Think I just liked it
the way it's at, currently,
I'll just leave it as-is.
So, now, I'm actually gonna shift the color temperature
of this photo
to more of an orange side.
So that might look a little off, to you,
and that's because it's,
elements that aren't actually orange
are appearing orange,
'cause we changed the
color temperature,
so let's bring this down a little bit.
So, what I like to do here,
is actually use the brush tool.
Bring the color temperature over a little bit
to the blues,
and then we'll paint onto our bridge, here.
You can see, it still looks a little too orange,
but now we have
the bridge highlighted, here,
and if you hit 'o',
you can actually see the overlay
of where you're painting.
So, let's paint a little bit more, here.
And I'm using the Automask feature here,
this'll actually select, contextually,
where it should pick the colors.
So, you can see, it's kinda
picking that bridge for you,
instead of the trees around it.
But I'll go back through
and make it more exact.
Also pick this rock, here,
'cause we don't want that to be orange.
And hit 'o', again, to hide the overlay,
and you can change the brightness.
I like to bring up the brightness a little bit,
so let's pump that up a little bit.
Saturation, we'll do a negative saturation.
I think like negative 60 looks pretty good,
so let's delete that overlay,
and I can show you how it looks.
So you can see, it looks a little more natural now,
and this also works great
for people's faces in photos,
or people's bodies
and things like that.
This photo is mainly trees,
so I think this looks,
is looking pretty good.
And, of course, you can zoom in
and hit 'o'
and then you can get exact details of where you're painting.
I'm currently in the erase tool,
so I'm erasing the water,
'cause we don't want the water
to be this color.
And you can see a before and after.
It looks like a super fall photo, now.
Maybe bring the exposure down a little bit.
The shadows,
play with the blacks.
I also like to bring it up, in the tone curve,
I like to bring up the bottom part
so, if you hold option,
you can actually lock a
few points in here, like this,
and then you could bring up the bottom area,
and it kinda makes that little area gray.
You can see the gray area, now.
And, of course, we're gonna
crop the photo for our Instagram,
four by five.
And, of course, you can use the brush, also,
to make the water different colors.
This was kinda brown
because of the rushing water
that was going by.
But, you can also use this
to make the water blue, if you want,
or any kinda color you want.
And I also like using the color area, here,
you can actually pick colors
to overlay the area with.
This actually takes a little finessing,
to make it look natural.
So here's the before and after,
and it's as easy as that,
you've made your fall photos
look super orange and fall-y,
and we have the leaves in the foreground.
And, if you're more experimental,
you can even try
adding more leaf overlays,
and making them smaller-scale,
and changing the gaussian blur amount,
and then it'll give more depth to your photo,
'cause you can add
different layers of them.
And thanks for watching!
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See ya.
Real quick, if you have any other
questions, or things like that,
feel free to leave 'em in the comments down below,
and, if you used my editing guide,
feel free to tag me on Instagram, or on Twitter,
and I'll take a look at your photos.
Thanks.