In this video
I'll take you through how
I edit the photos
from my boxing themed photoshoot.
Hello I'm Gavin Hoey
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and this is another
“Plan it, Shoot it, Edit it” series
of videos with a boxing theme.
This is actually the third one,
the Edit it video.
If you want to check out the previous two
planning and shooting?
Well they're already on AdoramaTV.
So what am I going to do,
well the boxing shoot went really well.
The pictures I'm very pleased with.
I've done a quick edit on some
of the shots and I found
there was two distinct styles of shot
that worked. So the first
one is a really gritty black-and-white
shot that looks great with the boxing
theme and the second one worked really
well with the smoke, that's to bring up
the texture and I'll show you how I do
both of them right now. So let's start
with the black-and-white one.
So here's an image in Photoshop Camera RAW
and I want to edit this as a black and white
shot. You can see it's got a few things
that may need fine-tuning,
this and things in the background,
there's a purple patch here
well, a light up there but I'll talk
about those as we go through.
First thing to do is just make this
black and white
and I can do that first,
now because it's right here
on the basic panel where
before it was a bit hidden
and I'll explain where in just a second,
but now I can just click black and white
and there we are black and white.
Whilst I'm here
let's just add in some of my favorites.
A little bit of housekeeping,
like some clarity and some important stuff
like actually adding some noise reduction.
Next one along is the one I'm really
interested in. It used to be HSL
grayscale now it's called black
and white mix,
so if you're using an older
version of Photoshop,
find the monochrome or grayscale box
check that and then
you'll be right here, where I am now.
So what does it do?
Well it gives me some
sliders that relate to the color
that was in the image
and how bright that
color should be in black and white.
Basically grab a slider, throw it either side,
if you like the result great
and that's what I'm going to do.
Let's get the red slider
and chuck it all the way over to the right-hand side.
Anything that was red will become
brighter or the left-hand side anything
that was red will become darker
and this instantly reveals one of the mistakes
I made in the planning stage,
because I wanted Roger to wear red,
because Red's
one of those powerful colors
and I forgot how red the room
was that we would be in,
so red room, red Roger,
it really does become a bit of a problem with some
of the black and white images.
So in hindsight I should have got
Roger to wear blue,
that would have been easier
or even better paint the room blue.
Probably the first one actually
now I think about it.
So we'll make the Reds
a little bit brighter, fortunately there
wasn't just red in the room there is
also some oranges and yellows,
so orange has quite a strong effect.
We'll bring that down and yellow
especially in these beams around the top
because they were actually yellow.
That gives us a very sort of darker look
which is what I want,
to try and make Roger stand out.
Now the window was full of green foliage
so I reckon we can darken that down
with the greens, the acqua's do pretty much nothing
so they can go anywhere,
blue this ones fun. Have a look at
this here, so there's the flash in my
shot really couldn't get it anywhere
else. It is going to be cloned out
but that's quite a tricky clone job
however if I change the blue slider?
Notice just how much easier
that cloning job is going to be now.
Okay so there's a lot of blue in that light.
Now remember that sort of weird purple patch
in the right-hand side?
Well I can make that brighter or
darker as well, so we can just tone
that purple down.
I don't think it's much in
the magentas, not really so that can go,
almost anywhere. So that's basically
the black and white bit done,
but that's a global change
and most photography needs
a little bit of local adjustments
to really enhance it,
so let's do a bit of local work
using the adjustment brush.
So here in Camera RAW or Lightroom this
could be in Lightroom too, same technique
find the adjustment brush and then you
can start to go to town on the smaller
areas for example, down by his feet
where I lost a little bit of brightness
with the blue slider earlier,
well I can paint
a bit more clarity down there
and that's going to resolve
that issue for me.
I also want some clarity on Rogers back
but I'm going to make sure I make a new
brush because I might not want the same
amount even though I'm painting exactly
the same amount. It's always a good idea
whenever possible to make your
adjustment brushes new, so you can
selectively adjust
the contrast. In this case on a smaller
area. So that works okay,
there's a few bits I want to darken down
so let's make another new brush
and we'll just darken down
this white pad
which was a little bit bright
and whilst we're going
we'll just darken down some
of this white work around the outside
of the room.
Obviously you can go and clone that out.
You get the idea,
I'm not going to go through cloning in this video
because we've done that many times before
so there it is with the cloning done
and my final black and white image completed.
So for the second look,
it was the pictures
that I did right at the end of the shoot
with smoke, if you're going to do smoke
you always do it at the end of the shoot
because there's not much you can do once
you filled the room up with smoke
and we did fill it up.
So I want to use a tool
to really bring up the texture. Photoshop
has some great tools
but nothing that really gives me the look
I'm after so in the past I've used NIK software.
you can see previous videos
where I've done that like the first
“Plan it, Shoot it, Edit it” video,
you'll find I used Nik there
but there are other tools,
new and upcoming tools
and I'm going to use one of them here.
I'm going to use Luminar by Skylum
or Macphun as it once was known.
If you want a nothing more than a quick edit
you can just go
and choose something like dramatic
in this case and we can just click on old
bunch of dramatic effects
and get some some really fascinating
one-click effects. That's great, I mean I love
a one click effect like everybody else
however in this case,
what we want to do is just reset everything,
so let's clear
all this down and we'll build this up,
bit by bit.
So the first thing I want to do is to apply
a sort of photo filter
just to make everything feel
a little bit more sort of blue and cold
and really emphasize that kind of cold.
It was actually freezing in that gym,
so we're going to add a little bit
of a sort of cold feel a little bit like that.
Okay that works quite nicely.
Now to bring up
the texture a little bit of dramatic,
I think let's go for that.
Just move that off the screen
so you can see it.
For dramatic I just need to add some drama
and as I added in you can see that works
lovely, to really bring up the texture
in the smoke and we can take it even
further with a bit of local contrast as well.
So that's quite nice. I like that
I'm less keen on the effect on Rogers
face where it's just a little bit too
strong, so I think what I'll do is just
bring that back a little bit
and there's a brush right next to each filter
and I can choose the brush
from the brush
make sure it's set to erase
and we can just erase that back
on Rogers face and maybe a little
on his arms just to bring a little bit
of the, well reality whatever that is,
back into the shot. Okay I've got one
more thing to do,
so let's add one more filter
and we'll make it an essential filter.
We'll make it a vignette
filter right here and we'll just vignette
this down slightly,
again I'll just tidy my screen up.
There we are so we can just darken down
the edges a little bit with this sort
of vignetting effect, like so.
I don't want to go too much particularly
on this left-hand side.
So again I'll get the brush
and this time I will choose the arrays
option and it brings some
of that left-hand side back through
and again there's a little
bit of tidying up to be done
but there you go.
There is my final boxing picture completed.
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I'm Gavin Hoey
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