Oh hello there everybody! Today we're going to edit this picture right here and
we're gonna make it look like this....
yes so that's what we're gonna do and we're gonna do it in lightroom only - no other
tools will be used with this picture. I did not take it myself this picture is one
of Claire Firths - this particular image was from a product shoot for the makers
of this collar and this coat and we're basically going to take this flat image
because of the lighting conditions at the time and we're gonna make it go wow
that's kind of it
I'm going to move right on over into the develop module right now so we're in
the develop section as you can see I've done nothing to this picture and
I'm just going to edit this like how I would normally edit it now as it's a
product shot usually they're going to be on an online gallery so generally the
image aspect ratio will be square. For the purposes of this actual tutorial
though I'm just going to use a 10 by 8 landscape - so to switch between landscape
and portrait just press X on your keyboard - and the reason why I've gone
with that basically is because that still has this most of the coat in. I
mean the main detail on the coat is this area so I'm probably just gonna go in
like that so okey dokey I'm gonna go ahead and just start working on
some little things - so very very flat so I need desperately need to add some
punch back into this image now I could do that with the tone curve or I could
just go ahead and start using my sliders so we could drop the blacks down
because there wasn't any I mean let's be honest that's grey so if you
look there's nothing in the black section of that histogram we're gonna
give some blacks back - so that's bringing the blacks in and we're gonna also bring
down the highlights because what that does, that I'll move the histogram over
and I'll bring back some of this sky I'm also gonna bring some of the shadows
down a little bit the mid-tone area you know I'm not too fussed about at the
moment you could lift it though if you really wanted to but I'm only gonna go
back and add more over it. For this image we probably would want to not knock
texture out of it so in my normal work I probably would just reduce the texture
on that so I'm going to leave that going to go into detail so I'm gonna zoom in
again big screen so I'm gonna go in to 200% I'm gonna up the sharpening on the
whole image quite a bit I'm gonna increase the radius by holding down my
Alt key I'm just getting to the point where I'm quite happy with that the
detail will probably bring out the noise yup so we can just go ahead and bin it off
halfway - noise reduction yes I want to assess some of this situation
happening here so I'm going to increase my luminance and then I'm gonna hold
down my Alt key use the detail tab to bring in some detail and then the
contrast to bring in some contrast how are we going okay I'm happy with that
that's good that's good I'm gonna add more sharpening though - beautiful that's
nice that's nice. Going to add a vignette, slight negative vignette, just around the
edge like so... before and after what are we like a few minutes into the
whole image? We don't want to mess with the color too much but I'm gonna make it
warmer because people like warm pictures and it makes them feel happy I don't
know if that's scientifically proven but I'm pretty sure it should be and we're
gonna start working on the background so in Lightroom we want to go ahead to
the radial filter - I'm gonna bang that over the subjects head which is right
here
and I'm gonna drop these the highlights again a little bit more we need to move
that in a bit - we just want to really leave this dog's face alone
like so
totally different - I'm gonna bring that back a little bit exposure because
it's not needed that much I'm gonna just draw the texture everything outside it
just a little bit not too much I'm gonna go and get the brush tool nice big brush
nice big brush just while I know what I'm looking at on my
just got exposure quite low just so that I know what I'm looking at I'm gonna go
over the areas of the image which are far brighter than the subject which is
about there
the before-and-after on I'm just gonna remove it off the ear so
I'm gonna go erase - I'm just gonna erase - I have absolutely no idea why I'm
singing I'm really sorry about this because I don't usually sing like ever
I'm just happy - I'm gonna put that brush back on using my square brackets to
change the size of the brush I'm just gonna go back to closer to the edges
there perfect - new brush we're gonna go with sharpen eyes brush - I really need to
save that preset and I'm gonna save this preset now - there is a video I will
link to it above with a preset for this I'm just gonna make a preset right now
so bear with me two secs
looking good I want more contrast like I just feel there's not enough going on
for me here in this picture I'm gonna go ahead and use the tone curve
before and after - this is looking really nice we're really nice as this is a
product shot probably would just go ahead and up the texture and clarity on
the product because it's like leather sort of effect
I'm really happy with that like I would just stop now to be honest because do
you need to do anything else? It would be nice to take the edge of that collar off
as this was a product shoot there should really be a product stylist on the shoot
ideally you would just rubber band that to the neck at the other side - I might go
back to the background brush that I made
and I'm just gonna play a little bit about softening off the background even
more than I already have done because why not - when you drop the clarity it
also drops the contrast so just keep that in mind and when you increase the
contrast that increases the saturation so also keep that in mind
I'm just gonna go ahead and do a little bit of contouring on the dog
and I'm just going to raise the eye a little bit more
and there's still a bit of blue coming through the coat so I'm just gonna tweak
that color level again to be slightly warmer' - yeah right stop -
beautiful so before and after on that let's go with a split shot amazing
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