- Hey guys.
In this video I'm gonna show you how I edit a photo
of Disney in Light Room and Photoshop.
The look I was going for was somewhat fancy and warm tones,
so it's a little bit imaginative, so stay tuned.
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The plan here is to replace the sky in this photo,
saturate the patches on his coat a little bit
and also take a look at that leash
and delete that out of the photo.
I'm gonna right-click on my photograph here,
and I am going to create a virtual copy.
This is just a great way to create
multiple versions of a single shot.
For all of you out there
trying to make those Instagram bangers,
you gotta get the five by four crop goin on.
So, what you're gonna do is,
you're gonna just go over to the crop tool,
and just click on original,
and in here we're gonna enter custom,
and for our aspect ration we're gonna enter five by four.
Oh yeah.
Okay, great.
Now, this just happens to be a vertical photo,
but if for some reason you had a horizontal photo
and you wanted to keep it that way,
just push the x key,
and you can get the five by four horizontal crop.
But, we're gonna keep this one vertical,
and all I'm basically doing
is trying to use the rule of thirds here to line up.
See I lined up the top grid with his eyeball,
just to get the user to kind of like, focus in on that.
I like to try to keep a little bit of head room.
I'm okay with that.
Alright, so once you're done,
just click done.
I'm just gonna do a couple of quick adjustments
in Light Room that I don't really wanna
fool around in Photoshop doing.
So one of the first things I'm gonna do here is,
I'm just gonna work on the eyes.
You could always zoom in,
just hit the command key, and then equals,
and that will move you right in,
because I wanna get into his eyes.
So one of the first things we're gonna do here is,
I'm gonna take a brush,
or you could press the K key.
Alright, and that's gonna bring up the brush tool.
And one of the first things that I wanna do,
is I wanna lift the exposure a little bit.
Not by much, maybe just by .5,
and then also for the eyes,
I wanna boost the clarity just a little bit.
So, it's already defaulting to four
and I'm okay with that.
You can see here that I have my brush ready to go.
If you wanna make your brush bigger,
just use the bracket key on the right
to make it a little bit bigger,
or the bracket key on the left
to make it just a little bit smaller.
If you wanna see what you're doing while you're painting,
press the O key.
Alright, so, I'm just gonna go ahead
and paint over the entire eyeball,
boost the exposure, and boost the clarity.
And again on the other eye.
And you can already tell
that we've brightened up those eyes a little bit.
Now, another thing that I wanna go ahead and do
is I wanna actually isolate those catchlights in his eye,
and boost those a little bit.
So what I'm gonna do,
is I'm gonna go back in and I'm actually gonna
boost the clarity of just those catchlights
that you see in there on that side
and then on that side.
So, I'm gonna use K for my brush tool,
make my brush just a little bit smaller
because I really wanna get in there.
Then, what I'm gonna do
is not so much in the clarity this time,
but just the exposure.
I'm gonna go in and I am going
to paint on those catchlights.
And here.
There.
Then again on this eye here.
Alright, because really in any portrait,
even a dog, you're basically wanting
to draw the viewer to the eyes.
Outstanding. Great.
So one of the next things that I wanna do,
is I wanna think about his fur here.
I'm gonna take a new brush
and not worry about exposure here, just sharpness.
I'm gonna boost it by a bit.
So maybe 33.
And I'm gonna boost the clarity just a bit.
And what we're gonna do is,
I'm mainly focusing on his face here.
So gonna make a brush, a pretty large brush,
and we're just going to go ahead and paint in.
Paint in
some sharpness and clarity
on his coat.
You could be as detailed or as general
as you would like to be with this.
This is basically like a portrait.
And I'm not gonna add it to his tongue.
Just basically his face.
Alright, so there you have it.
Now once again,
before and after,
we can hide those adjustments with the H key.
So before,
and after.
Very good.
We're gonna zoom back out.
Then take the radial filter here,
and just draw a little oval over Disney.
I'm basically just trying to focus on his face here,
and what I'm gonna do with the radial filter
is I'm gonna reduce the sharpness and drop the shadows.
So we have before
and after, we'll hide those adjustments.
Before.
You can see it's just getting a little bit darker.
Alright, so the next thing that we wanna go ahead and do
is make some slight adjustments on the tongue.
So I'm gonna go ahead and make a new brush.
Actually, what I wanna do
is I'm gonna raise those shadows up just a little bit.
Then zoom in so I can see what I'm doin' here.
Before.
After.
So we just lightened up the tongue just a little bit.
We're gonna go ahead and edit this in Adobe Photoshop.
So we have our photo of Disney here in Photoshop,
and one of the first things I'm gonna do
to make this photo a little bit more interesting,
is replace this blown out sky
with something a little bit more interesting.
Here's just a photo that I downloaded from the internet.
Just gonna make it a little bit bigger.
I'm gonna flip horizontal.
Let's put it kinda,
over here.
Select off of that.
Change my blending mode to multiply.
Select my layer.
It's gonna tell me that I need to rasterize the object.
And what I'm gonna do is just paint with a very large brush.
Just across the bottom there.
'Cause I don't want that sky on my houses.
And just to make it a little bit more interesting
and realistic, I'm just going to filter, blur,
and gaussian blur.
30 pixels, that's fine.
So that just blends it in a little bit better.
So the next step we're going to do
is we're gonna add a gradient map
with these colors in the shadows and the highlights
that I let you know about.
So we're gonna go down here,
and we're gonna select gradient map.
I know it looks a little scary.
Just double-click on that there.
And basically this just allows us
to put a certain hue in the shadows or the highlights.
So just double click there,
and here you can enter like a custom number.
So in the shadow we're gonna use 174153,
which is somewhat of like a teal-ish color.
And then in the highlights,
we're gonna use this number,
DC6 Bravo, 00,
which is sort of like a orange color.
I know, it looks a little bit scary,
but we're gonna change the blending mode to soft light.
So, soft light.
Okay, still a little bit much there,
so what we could also do is reduce the opacity.
Yeah, so just a hint of it.
Maybe around 40%.
So the next thing we're gonna do,
is we're gonna add some color balance to the mid tones.
And basically what this allows us to do
is add some variation to the photo
without affecting the brightness or the contrast.
We're gonna add color balance to our mid tones,
and for the red,
will be six or perhaps eight.
Okay, so we just add a little bit there,
and then we're gonna add some in the blues.
Plus five.
'Cause I don't want Disney to be like this blue dog.
So what I'm gonna go ahead and do,
is select on my mask here,
and I'm just gonna make my brush a little bit smaller,
and I am going to paint with black.
Press the X key.
Alright, so when you're painting with white,
you're revealing.
When you're painting with black,
you are concealing.
Alright, I do not want Disney to be a blue dog.
So I'm just gonna
paint back in his true colors there.
'Cause I don't need Disney to be blue.
I just want him to be himself.
So he's back in the game.
Alright so now that we have him back,
and our color balance is added.
We're gonna add a photo filter.
And this is basically just going to give us some warm tones.
So I'm just gonna keep everything as-is.
This is warming filter 85,
keep the density at 25.
Next thing I do wanna mask out him,
because once again I don't want that to affect Disney, so.
B for my brush tool.
Painting with black.
And again, I don't want that extra warmth affecting Disney.
The next thing we're gonna do
is add some saturation to those orange patches on his coat.
Hue, Saturation.
And with that,
I'm just going to increase my saturation by maybe 21.
But this time I don't wanna saturate the entire image.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going
to go ahead invert my mask.
So just for Mac, just command I.
Or control I.
And basically this time I'm gonna paint with white
because I want to reveal.
So I'm gonna push my X key to change that to white,
so I can reveal that.
Adjust the size of my brush with the bracket keys,
you know, left bracket makes it a little bit smaller,
and the right bracket makes it a little bit bigger.
And I'm just gonna paint in these orange patches here.
Just to add a little bit of saturation
to those areas of his coat.
Make my brush a little bit smaller.
Just kinda get in there.
Again, I'm being just really quick.
But I'm just kinda highlighting some of his unique features.
So now I'm gonna add another photo filter.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and add some brightness.
'Cause what I wanna do is add some light
over in that top left corner.
I'm gonna add,
it's like a star or your sun.
A little burst here.
But, to get rid of that black background,
you can change the blending mode to screen.
Alright, so now I just have my light.
And I'm just gonna place it over here,
but I'm also gonna drop the opacity
to somewhere around, maybe 70%.
And good.
Now it's blending in there.
But I'm also going to add,
filter, blur, gaussian blur,
just make it a little bit more interesting
and I'm gonna keep that at 30 pixels.
The next thing I'm gonna do,
is I'm gonna add a gradient fill.
So gradient, go here, select this last one,
this one's gonna be black. So okay.
You're gonna go over to your gradient tool here.
So now we have that selected.
We're gonna change our blending mode to soft light.
And I'm also gonna change the opacity to about 59%.
So we don't come on too strong.
And you're basically just gonna take that gradient tool
that you selected here,
and just slide from the top to the bottom here.
You're gonna see what it does.
Just adds a little bit there.
Now I'm gonna add a levels adjustment.
And what levels allows you to do
is basically set your black point and set your,
what's true black, what's true light.
So by raising your black point,
you can make it more of a matte like finish.
So I'm gonna adjust my darkest point,
my shadows, to eight,
as opposed to zero.
So just lift that up.
And I'm gonna change my output levels to 15.
Alright, so you can see the effect that we have there.
So the next thing that I'm gonna do
after we have our levels complete,
is I'm going to add a color lookup table.
Just to give it a final look.
So we go here, to color look up, 3D lut.
We're gonna scroll down to Kodak 5218, Kodak 2395.
And there you have it.
But, of course, we're not gonna keep that
at a hundred percent, it's just a little bit much.
So we're gonna drop the opacity
of that lut down to our liking.
Somewhere around 40, 41.
This is basically how I edited this photo
of Disney in Light Room and Photoshop.
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