Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today I'm going to edit some photos this time. Go over
what I do with this software. It's the Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2019.
In this case we're just gonna edit some of the
RAWs from that little photo outing. Pretty simple stuff just using the
cellphone with (the) "Open Camera" application and then I used another cell phone to
film myself taking photos. So these are the photos that I preferred from the
group. They were either sharper, better composition, lower ISO... all that. Maybe
they looked a little interesting.
So I'm gonna apply some basic adjustments and
then that will add those to all the photos just to make it a little quicker.
So in this "light EQ" area you can really adjust the general exposure of
each.. each group of lighting. You can, of course, do more advanced versions as well
but the basic one is fine.
Highlight enhancement, of course, that pulls down some of
the bright areas. A bit of.. a little bit of color. Dehaze kind of gets all the
exposure closer together...
As you can see in the clouds, it's really coming out well.
In this detail tab you can add sharpening. You can add the noise reduction
which we definitely need to do in this case. Let's do 30. We want the color
noise as well. Let's look closer up. So it doesn't do a whole... It definitely helps
as you can see, but we're gonna.. We usually use photos, or I usually use
photos at smaller resolutions. And noise tends (to) not be a huge issue.
You can also correct the aberrations and such. But I'm not really seeing too much.
Except right on this light here. But just gonna leave it as is. So that's pretty
much it. Sometimes I've been cropping verticals different. So I'm using more of
a wider look to them.
But in this ca.. in the case of this
cellphone it's already a different ratio than the standard. So it's a three by
four ratio on the cellphone instead of the three.. three by two
for most cameras.
What I can do now is just go back into the manage area and
I can copy the process that I just did. So you can select which things to push over
to you the other photos. Just gonna do all of them. Then shift to select them all. Right
click, process, paste those settings. So it won't work with some of the photos of
course, but we can adjust each one individually.
Go back into the develop with the second photo. In this case I might do something
like adjust the crop again, but in this case I'll do, ahh, sixteen by nine...
Something like that. So I still want this cement and the wall
and such, but some of this down here is a little blurry. It depends on personal
preference, as usual, in most situations.
So you can click over just to see what it looks like...
I mean, I really don't do a huge amount most of time. You can adjust colors and.. and white
balance. So in this case these are kind of a purple hue to the photos. I think
it's just how the RAWs work out with this phone. But you can easily adjust
white balance in that case. See what the "Auto" looks like. Ah, I don't like that
one. It's really green. You can also click on the areas where you think that might
automatically get a white balance for you. Of course, you can also add
adjustments to the colors themselves. Or adjust the hue. Or whatever color you
want. So if I want the greens a different type of green. You can easily
do that. If the blue is more of a blue instead of a teal. So many options, you
know. So in this case I would definitely crop this one to a different
ratio. Let's go back to this sixteen by nine and kind of have that split right
in the middle. See what that looks like.
This one as well.. probably.. Ah, I don't like this little
area here. You can go into the repair tool and fix that up. And these.. This
specific development tab allows you to do non-destructive edits.
So I'm right clicking on an area to use. Should actually use clone in this case. And I'm...
So that would take some effort I'm sure to, ah, make it look decent-ish. That's alright!
So remove that little area that kind of is bothersome. But chances I would
probably crop that whole piece out anyways. Again with my current preference
of wider aspect. But that loses a lot of the skies so
probably not that one. Two by three...
That one's not bad.
Maybe something like that right on the edge... yeah.
This one probably needs more adjustment...
In this case I probably do an Instagram crop on this one even though we lose
some of the lighting structure.
Because the real focus is right there with
the sharper area.
See what that looks like...
Maybe pulled down those shadows, of
course, cellphones don't have a ton of dynamic range. Ehh, at least the
specific one that I have so. There's not too much in this light area to use.
These ones here. Probably just cut out the trees. It's pretty blurry in the
foreground. So maybe...
Do you want to use that in.. the.. in this case. Also you can
straighten the lines to use this line right here as the main, the main, straight
line in the picture.
Pull that up...
Trying to get as much the picture as possible
See what that looks like...
Similar situation with this other one. So it might be a little blurry. Probably add
some more sharpening or something.
And these lines here...
go really nicely up into the top.
Try to get that right in the center...
Let's change that.
This one here is probably a little blurry, but definitely expose it higher.
Still looks decent. So I probably leave the crop just as it is. Maybe slight
removal.. ope.. had to constrain proportions.
Just take a little bit off that side.
With these last two photos and probably do cropping as well.
Do sixteen by nine again...
Try to keep the building in, in this case. I think it looks nice and then
adjust maybe get this light.. lamppost. Try to straighten that out.
But then we do lose some of the bottom areas. So let's go back to the
usual ratio...
Get this out of the way.
In this case you could definitely pull out those
reflections. Mess around with those.
Last one. Fun one with the cell phone.
This one definitely needs more noise reduction.
So that was a quick look at editing with the software. A lot of the stuff that I
do for the videos are very simple edits. They're nothing special, but I just
tried to improve the photos a little bit from what I took in the camera or in the
phone in this case. Of course, having RAW is a big plus because I can adjust
things to really... pull things out.. with colors or make the white balance a
little better. So hope you enjoyed this video. I'm Scott from Photography Banzai.
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