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- [Instructor] For those of you who know my photography,
one thing I love to photograph is food.
So let's go ahead and edit a food image inside of ON1 Photo.
I'm going to select the salmon image,
and then click on develop on the right.
Now this is an image of some salmon on a cedar plank,
and it's sitting on a grill,
so it wasn't an over-stylized shoot.
I pretty much just made sure that the oranges
looked really nice stacked on the salmon,
but the light is really good,
and it even has some really neat kind
of steam and smoke swirling up above.
For the most part, processing food photographs
is relatively simple.
It's a matter of adding a nice, balanced color,
some contrast and exposure, maybe a vignette,
and a little bit of sharpening.
So I'm going to show you all of those things here
inside of both develop and effects.
I'm going to start out with the color section,
and I'm just going to increase the temperature slider
to the right to add some warmth.
And I have it at about 14, and that looks
like it's a pretty good setting.
For the tone, I'm going to click auto
to see what ON1 thinks will look good,
and that actually did a pretty decent job.
I'm going to go through some of the settings
and make some minor adjustments.
So I'm going to increase the contrast just a little bit.
I'll decrease the highlights, try and get rid
of some of the highlights on those oranges.
It might have just been photographed that way,
so those highlights on the oranges
may just have to stay there.
I'm going to increase the shadows a little bit more.
And let's see what the whites do if I move it
to the left, and I think that looks good.
There are some little blemishes on the oranges.
I'm not opposed to having things look a little bit messy
in my food, but I think I might go ahead
and remove some of these, so I'm going to zoom in,
and I'm going to select the perfect eraser.
I'm going to make sure my brush size
is just a little bit larger than the area
that I want to remove, and then sweep across
to get rid of some of these little black dots.
So I'll get the ones that are inside the orange,
takes a moment for each of them to apply.
And then I'll get these on the outside.
And let's see if that one does a good job.
And that did alright.
You can always go over those areas again
if you want to kind of refine that correction.
And last but not least, I'll get this little blob here
on the bottom, and that looks good.
So I'll zoom back out, and I think that did a nice job
of cleaning up that portion of the image.
I'd like to also add some saturation and some vibrance,
but I really only want it to affect the salmon portion.
I'm worried that if I move, and let me go ahead and try,
if I move that vibrance slider to the right,
it's going to over-saturate those oranges.
So let me reset that vibrance slider,
and instead I'm going to go over to the local adjustments.
I'm going to reset the exposure so it's back to zero.
I'll increase that vibrance slider pretty far to the right.
I'm going to reduce the brush size,
and then I'm just going to brush over that salmon area.
Now if you press the O key, you can actually see
where you are painting, and that makes it
a little bit easier for the local adjustments,
because it may not always be obvious
where you're brushing with some of these types of settings.
So I'll just keep painting until I get all
of that salmon area, or most of it, I should say,
it doesn't have to be a perfect mask.
Okay, I'll press O again, and now let me toggle
this adjustment on and off, and that looks really nice.
I'm actually going to see what happens
if I increase the saturation, I'm not going to go too far
'cause that might clip those colors.
I might even increase the temperature to the right as well,
so let me toggle this on and off and see,
and that did a really great job
of making that red of the salmon really pop.
I'm finished editing in develop, so now let's take it
into effects and add a couple of filters
to just kind of finish off the image.
I'll click on effects on the right,
and the I'll the add filter button,
and I'm going to start out by adding a filter.
So I have that photo filter applied.
In this little more dropdown,
I'm going to select the polarizer,
which looks good, but it's a little too intense,
or not a little too intense, it's a lot too intense,
so I'm going to reduce that opacity down to around 50%.
And we'll do a quick toggle of that, and that looks great,
that's a really good filter to use for food.
I'm going to minimize this panel,
and then I'm going to add another filter.
This time, I'd like to add some sharpening,
so I'm going to select the sharpening filter,
and in this more dropdown, I'm going to choose high pass.
I tend to use high pass in Photoshop,
so I've just kind of become accustomed
to using it in other places as well.
Now when adding sharpening to an image,
you want to make sure that if you have an image
with a blurry background, just like I do here,
that you don't add sharpening to the entire image.
So you want to apply it selectively,
and in effects, I can of course mask out individual layers.
In this case, I'm going to use the masking bug.
So I'm going to click on the masking bug
in the toolbar on the left,
I'm going to choose the vignette,
and I'm going to select edges.
The edges setting ensures that I have an inverted vignette
so that the visible area is in the center.
Now I'm going to click in my image,
and I'm going to resize and even rotate
using this little knob in the middle there
so that it's only affecting kind of that plane of focus.
Let me press the O key so you can see
what it is actually affecting.
So now it's a little bit easier to place this
'cause I can actually see that area
that's going to be sharpened.
I can even increase the feather if I want.
In this case, I don't know if I need to.
I'll press O again to hide that mask preview,
and I think that's looking good.
I'm going to minimize this layer, and I'll finish
this image with a vignette, so I'll click add filter,
and then I'll select the vignette filter from the list.
I'm going to choose big softie, but I don't want
the vignette to be this intense,
so I'm going to reduce the opacity, and I have it at about 60%.
That might be a little too much,
I think I'm going to move it down closer
to about 45 or so, and that looks great.
Alright, that's it for this image.
I'm going to go ahead and click on browse
to bring my final image back into browse.
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