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Okay this project is gonna be a little more difficult,
but it was the cover for magazine that I did
for Lightroom magazine in fact for Kelby One
and I wanna show you how I did it.
So I was with a friend in Joshua Tree Park
and we had this amazing Milky Way.
You can see the Milky Way here, that's just a RAW file
and some guys had like a saber, a laser saber
from "Star Wars" and I asked my friend can you go over
there and just turn it on.
And so I did one exposure for him,
where I was at ISO 1000, five seconds,
and I, the same exact shot, 15 second, at ISO 2000,
but without you can see he's here but he's sort of hidden.
So, I'm gonna retouch the first photo as the foreground
in the Lightroom, the second one in Lightroom
and we're gonna blend them both in Photoshop.
So, the first thing I'm gonna do is let's start with
the Milky Way.
So, Milky Way, Milky Way, I'm going to, well,
I'm gonna open the shadows.
The Milky Way's a bit different.
You can open the shadows, it doesn't really matter,
what's really important with Milky Way is the white slider.
See, look at this, the white slider is really gonna
make it pop, adding texture and clarity is really important,
I'm gonna crush the blacks a little bit on this one.
Okay, and then, I don't wanna bring down the highlights,
I'm actually gonna boost the highlights a little bit,
add some contrast, and now comes the white balance.
Okay, the white balance this is very blue,
I might warm things up a little bit.
Add a bit more magenta, because this is gonna be red
and I want to put more emphasis on the Milky Way.
One thing I do that is I go take a gradient
and I put it all over the Milky Way here,
all over the Milky Way, I can make my gradient big or small.
Okay, I'm gonna double click on it in fact so everything
comes to zero, make sure inverted, make sure it's feathered,
and I just want to even add more clarity,
even more texture, a little bit of exposure and a little
bit of magenta.
Just a tad too, maybe a little bit of yellow,
maybe more exposure, I just wanna make it pop.
Let's see before the circle, after the circle.
Okay, now, here it's super noisy so what you wanna do there
is you wanna do like a local adjustment for the noise
and so usually what I do is I'm gonna take gradient,
and I'm gonna make a gradient here
and instead of brightening things up I'm actually gonna
make it even darker and I'm gonna go into noise
and I'm gonna take care of the noise here
so that it takes care of this noise, okay?
And I kind of like that, I kind of like that retouching,
I mean I'm really doing it for the, just for the sky,
the rest doesn't really matter.
I wanna go into the noise reduction,
but you've got to be careful because if you use
a lot of noise reduction on stars,
you're gonna make a lot of small stars disappear,
so yeah, look at this. (chuckles)
So I don't want that, so maybe just a little tad of noise
reduction and you know, I'm gonna use my usual formula
like you but, yeah, about 10 or so of reduction,
I mean this one has, this one was shot at like ISO 2000,
so it has a lot of noise, but I kind of like,
I wanna the noise is like almost like small stars,
so I really like that.
Now, one thing I've not showed you yet,
that's one of the reason I wanted to do this video
is I can copy some of the things I did here over there.
But I don't want to copy everything,
so I'm gonna press Command + Shift + C,
and by default I'm gonna go check none.
And what do I want to copy?
First the Process Version which is basically the way
the RAW file has been dealt with in terms of developing,
which basically always has to be on,
and then I wanna copy the white balance.
I think I wanna match the white balance,
I wanna copy maybe the noise reduction,
and maybe yeah, the basic tones.
Okay, let's try that.
So I'm copying all that and then I right click
and then I'm gonna go right click and I'm gonna go Paste
or Command + D, actually Command + V.
Okay, and now I paste what I did here in there.
But, doesn't really match, it's way too bright,
doesn't work, so I'm gonna reset and I'm gonna retouch
that photo for what it is, okay?
So, let's see here, I'm gonna bring down the highlights
maybe a little tad, I'm gonna do my black point.
Okay, I'm gonna do my white point.
And, maybe the photo is really red, so I think I just wanna
de-saturate it a little bit.
Just a little bit, I mean, you know, yeah.
Just a little bit like this and I think I kind of like
that, I was like, what if I could mix this one,
with this one, well we can try.
So, you know, noise reduction yeah,
everything else is kinda cool.
Let's see here, yeah, so I'm gonna select both
of these photo, I'm gonna right click, Edit,
and instead of going to Edit in Photoshop,
I'm going to go to open as Layers in Photoshop.
So here we are in Photoshop and you see we've got two
layers on top, we have the one with the Milky Way,
and at the bottom, we have the one with the rocks.
Okay?
Now, usually what I do before I start blending,
I select both of the photo, it might not work,
I haven't tried this when I go to Edit and I go to
Auto-Align Layers.
And that's gonna try to take the shape of the mountains
and align it, but no, it says cannot do it.
Okay, fine.
So it doesn't work.
That's fine.
I'm gonna create a mask, okay, and I have a mask here.
So I just click on this for mask,
it makes it white and you know the principal of the masking
is basically anything which is white reveals,
so it's gonna, I want it to reveal absolutely the top
but if I would brush with the black,
if I would put black by pressing X as my foreground color,
you see X, it goes this white is foreground,
now I press X, black is foreground, and if you don't,
if you've got like weird colors there which can totally
happen like this,
you just press D and white is gonna be foreground
and black is gonna be your default, default and X again.
So you want black as your foreground color
and then I have a big brush, make sure it's 100% opacity,
and now check this out.
Make the hardness of your brush by right clicking
is at zero.
Okay, so now I've got a very soft brush,
and I'm gonna brush, and I'm gonna just bring back
the bottom of the photo.
So I'm just bringing back the bottom of the photo.
Okay.
And then here we have like a bit of a weird blending here,
so what you can do is you can press X,
and now you're bringing back, sorry X,
and now I'm bringing back the original photo like this,
all right, and then what you can do is lower the opacity
of the brush and then press X again and it's bringing
this back, X again and I'm just blending this photo
and this photo.
And voila.
Okay.
And then, so that was the, that was kind of the final thing.
I wanna add something, I want to try to add something,
so I'm gonna add an empty layer, okay,
and on an empty layer I'm gonna try to do something.
I'm gonna go to Filter, Render,
and I'm gonna go to Lens Flare.
I wanna add a lens flare, oh, because the area, sorry.
So, it's not gonna work on a empty layer,
so what I'm gonna do is I need to fill this with something.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna fill this
with black for example.
So boom.
The way to do that is you press Shift + Delete,
and you can fill it with whatever you want
and I'm gonna press black and OK.
So now it's filled with black.
All right and now I'm gonna go again.
Filter, Render, Lens Flare.
Okay, and that lens flare is too big.
And you can, I'm gonna put it where the sword is
and I'm gonna make it much smaller.
You've got different types of lens flare.
I think, I like the first one.
I like, it's just, maybe I might get rid of all of that.
I'm just gonna make it really small, like this, press OK,
and now I have a lens flare, but it's sort of invisible.
But there is a special mode in Photoshop
called the Screen Mode, and if you put it on screen mode
now, you can see that the lens flare is,
anything which is black has become transparent.
And now I can take the move tool and sort of try
to put the lens flare where I want it.
So like on here, but you see, I don't like what's there
and there, so I can use the mask, type B,
exactly like we did before,
make sure black is the foreground color,
make sure the opacity is 100% and I'm just gonna erase
all of that.
Erase a little bit here, voila.
And I can even, so that's before and that's after.
I can even make this a little smaller,
I just want it a little bit of an effect there
and it just blends it even more.
And voila.
So now I can go to File, Close.
Now this is a little more advanced, I agree,
but I wanted to show it for people out there who
can handle this kind of projects.
And let's go back to Lightroom and we are ready
for like a double development.
So this is the photo, and remember the double development
is you open the shadows, bring down the highlights,
you do your black, you do your whites
and I can maybe lower the vibrance a little bit.
Or not.
Make it brighter or not.
Boost the whites even more if I wanted to.
And voila.
It's like a complete "Star Wars" image
and I really wanted to show that to you guys.
Now, I'm thinking it's actually too bright,
so because, while I'm here, I can go here and I can make
a gradient and I can lower the gradient,
I just had this idea.
I just wanna make this maybe a little darker here,
use the same value there, make it darker there,
I don't know I just think it's a little too much.
It was just too much red.
And maybe another gradient here.
Make it here.
You know, you get the idea.
And check it out.
With, so you can just, whatever you want.
It's completely non-destructive, before, after.
Before, after.
I just made this a little bit darker
and so it is a little more subtle and so we came from this
and this is where we are, with a bit of Lightroom
and a little bit of Photoshop.