Today I am going to show you how to edit like Brendan Woelfel
Aloha Simpletons!
I know there's a lot of tutorials on YouTube and how to edit like him or
how to colorgrade like him in Lightroom but I wanted to show you how to achieve
a similar look in Snapseed. I am in no way encouraging you to edit exactly like
him, I am just showing you how to get those cotton candy hues within your
edits similar to what he has on his feed. There's a lot of teals, pinks and purple hues
so if you're like me and you're constantly inspired by his photos we're
going to try to recreate the similar tones in this photo today. I'm going to
take you through the same steps that I use to edit every photo and it's very
similar to my first Snapseed tutorial so here we go! The first thing we're gonna
do is Tune Image. We're gonna go to tools, Tune Image and increase the brightness by
a little bit because it's quite dark and this was taken at night and we're gonna
up the contrast by a little bit as well and add a little bit of ambience but not
too much because you don't want the picture to be overly structured and then
we're gonna up the highlights and we're also gonna up the shadows. Alright done!
Step two is Details. We're gonna add a little bit of structure just a teensy
bit and sharpen the photo a little bit as well. Third step, we're gonna use HDR
Scape. I love this tool but we're only gonna add a little bit. If we add too much
picture's gonna look a little bit cartoony. There we go! Now we're gonna go
into Grainy Film which is my absolutely favorite feature within Snapseed. I
always toggle about between X03 X04. In this case I'm gonna start
with X04. You can see that it's a little bit too grainy because grain is
at 25 - we're actually gonna lower that to 0 because Brandon's photos don't have a
lot of grain. Style strength I'm going to lower it, we're not gonna add too much.
Maybe about 32 and then we're done with that. We're gonna go back into Grainy Film
and add a little bit of X03 because I always like to add a little
bit of both - about 23. There we go! Okay now that we're done with Grainy Film
we're going to go into Curves. I know curves can be a little bit
overwhelming I'm gonna do a more detailed Curves tutorial in a separate
video but for this case I am just going to do as I always do which is trial and
error. I really kind of follow the same steps for
Curves for every photo just so I can keep it consistent. Gonna up this a
little right here and brighten this as well and I'm going to the go to the red
curve. Because there's a lot of pink and red hues in Brandon's photos I'm going to
increase this slightly more than I would have on a regular basis we don't want to
look to red I don't want to look sunburnt so I'm gonna lower that a
little teensy bit here and do the same as well down here. Now we're going to go to
the green curve. There's a lot of blue and teal hues within Brandon's
photos so I'm not going to add too much green. Now we're going to use the blue
curve, you'll notice that if I increase it up here there's a lot more pink but
the blue gets a lot more blue whereas if I go down here the blue gets more teal
but then I tend to be more yellow so we're just gonna play a little balancing
act and find what works but I do like the pink and blue hues up here so
that's what I am going to stick with. And the last curve we're gonna do is the
RGB curve which combines all of the colors within one curve so I'm going to
darken that here, brighten that up here and brighten that up there as well.
Alright now that we're done with Curves we are gonna go into White Balance. White
Balance just adjust the overall white balance of the photo if it's looking a
little too yellow then we can adjust that here I'm gonna decrease temperature
by only negative 1 'cause I only want to slightly adjust the warmth of the photo and
I do want to increase the pink hues of this photo so I'm going to increase the
tint about +4 but not too much because we don't want to overly saturate the
photo with pinks. And I'm done with that so if I check in and do before-and-after
there's already more cotton candy tones in this photo than there was before. I
always end off my editing process with Brush. I use it to adjust any specific
areas of the photo. I'm noticing that the blue is a little bit too blue and I kind
of want the blue to be more on the teal side. How I'm gonna cheat that without using
Lightroom is using the temperature tool within Brush. I'm going to zoom out so I
can grab more of the surface area in the sky and color it over until I get more
of a teal going on. The blue is more teal now versus what it was before but I can
see that it's kind of bleeding into the building which isn't too big of a deal
but my perfectionist side is forcing me to fix that. if you click on the eye icon
you'll see which area of the photo that you highlighted with the Brush tool. I'm
going to erase any areas that I don't want affected with the warmth. All right
I think we're done with the shot, so let's do a final before and after so
before, the photo was really dark and really flat and lacking a lot of color
and now we have our teal and pink tones, photo's more vibrant and it's similar to
the tones that Brandon uses to color grade his photos and voila we're done! I'd
say the two key features here to get that inspired Brandon Woelfel
edit is using Curves and White Balance. Those are going to be the game changer
for your photo. That's where you can adjust certain hues and tones of the
photo to get that cotton candy look. So I hope you guys enjoyed that give this
video a thumbs up if you like this series and you want to see more inspired
edits, let me know in the comments what other inspiring edits you'd like to see
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family. Alright I will see you guys next time baiii