hello lady's and gentleman in this episode
we make this photo from the tower bridge in london
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hello lady's and gentleman and welcome to the episode thirty seven of my photography
lightroom and photoshop tips
my name is Serge Ramelli
and I live in Paris, France, you know, very nice city but i speak the
english language
all right
last week i showed you how to retouch this photo
of this beautiful horse taken right into the sun it's a scene totally from
gone with the wind or from the war horse from Steven Spielberg
really like drama, I love that photo
check out last week episode
this week
I show you how to sheets and do some very unatural stuff
we're gona take this lovely photo from my wife she was in London a couple of weeks ago
and to the Tower Bridge
this is the original shot
i asked her to bring this back and this is the retouch version of it
you will see there's a lot of creative process in that photo
we try to create a sunset, we use a lot of brushes and the filters
it's technical
but it's beautiful
come and join me
hello lady's and gentleman so my wife came back
from london and she shot
the Tower Bridge
it's a an amazing bridge which i have never seen
I went to London a couple of times
but uh... you know I told her Bring me a nice photo of the Tower Bridge and
she's a very nice wife
so she did
now unfortunately there was no sunset that night
and i want to show you
how to retouch the photo to get very creative
now, just a little warning if you are
if you love getting it right into the camera and you hate post-processing
and you are only
buying organic products
and only loving
Original untouched non post process photos
please stop the video now
because what you're about to see
might change your viewpoint forever, i'm kidding
i'm really going to get creative here guys i'm... you know
it's already a nice photos taken
you know, originally but I am gonna paint over it i'm gonna show you
the power
of lightroom 4
so, i hope you're well seated let's get started
we're going to the developement and we start off like I usually do
I open up the shadows
this is basically gonna open up
this is gonna do what? this is going to brighten up all the shadows
and then I'm gonna get the highlights to come down
okay
uh... here we have a histogram the whole idear of this histogram is to get
all the information to get from here to here like to have a nice montain
and for this
Lady's and gentlemen we're gonna take the whites lighter
and bring it to the right check out what's happening with the histogram
it goes to the right
so now we have set what we call the white point
and now we're gonna do the opposite with the black point
okay we're gonna... i'm pressing the option key that's why the screen is totally white
and it goes you know we see only the black
uh... pixels what you see here is pixels which are one hundred pixels dark
okay, so now we already have a better contrast
but that's not all
i want to give a special tone very dramatic tone to this photo and for this
I'm gonna lower the exposure a little bit
because i really want to give it like a night look
but something i don't like about the colors is that you know , it's very blue
and uh... it just lakes some contrast you know it's like all you have is blue you know
and it's kind of nice but
not very
uh... i'm gonna boost a bit of clarity cause that's what I usually do
and you know we do all the other stuff you know enable profils correction
maybe you know we move chromatic aberration
okay, next I'm gonna re-crop the photo I'm gonna use a crop tool by clicking here
okay and uh... i'm going to make sure my tower is very straight and i'm going to make...
give it a little more and "movie like"
more panoramic type of feeling something like that
okay
and now it's time
for the show this is just a busy process
and let me just lower the exposure even more
yeah maybe not that much
so we gonna dodge and burn i could do this in Photoshop but many people
don't have Photoshop that's why I try to do everything
you know in Lightroom, Lightromm is a very cheap software compared to Photoshop
and it's
AMAZING !
so uh... just a little note before lightroom I used to do, you know I have been a
hundred percent time in Photoshop
since Lightroom 4...
ninety five percent Lightroom five percent Photoshop
and i'll show you how and why
so first I'm gonna take the brush and make sure that the brush is uh...
everything down to zero, if it's not press the option key
and click on reset
and let's be a painter
uh... i want to bring, you know citylights spot here you know like if there was
a citylight, so for this
I'm gonna bring up the exposure
i'm gonna get to the temperature
around fifty and then paint around fifty
why? because you know...
lights are usually yellow
okay i'm going to get the flow uh...
and the density flow and density
one hundred percent
i make a small circle with my wheel mouse
just here, just make a little spot
maybe brighten up this a little bit more
okay maybe not that yellow,
something like that
okay and now i'm gonna create a new brush
it has the same settings almost
but this time instead of having the flow at one hundred and the density at one hundrer
i'm gonna go but, halfway
and I am gonna make my circle bigger and i'm gonna make a big circle
what this is going to do, is going to brush
but it's going to brush in a...
okay maybe
add a bit of life here
it's gonna make a more feather, you know instead of having just like
you have one spot and it makes just the light go a bit further arround
on a gradient you know, on a nice little gradient
okay maybe uh...
brighten up a bit the exposure
a bit less colors you know here
so that's one thing
next i want to add some uh... some lights here
on the floor ground just to make it a bit more interesting but very subtle
so I'm gonna create a new brush
get this down to zero this down to zero
maybe a bit of exposure
i'm gonna keep the flow and the density around halfway
and i'm gonna just brush here just a little bit. okay nothing is happening
so i'm gonna get a bit more exposure
yes a bit more here
I just want to complexify you know,
a little bit what's happening here
the reason why do that...
okay so that's
very little right that's not much I'm gonna create a new brush, this time I'm gonna get
the flow and density that's the whole trick you have to play with flow and density
and uh... Get the exposure a bit more
and i'm just gonna make ( click )
yeah something like this and something like that
just to make it a bit more interesting, something's going on !
it gets the texture a bit going you know
so that's one thing that's for the floor ground so now for the background
i want to create a false sunset
yes you've heard
i admit i am gonna cheat, I'm gonna create a false sunset
I admit
okay for this
i have a brush I'm gonna create a new brush
i'm gonna get the exposure
normal i don't touch the exposure i'm gonna get the tint around fifty
fifty three and forty eight like before
basically warm
i'm going to make the flow
like lower
then fifty percent
flow and density lower feather one hundred I make a big circle
and i'm just gonna
yes something like this and i'm just gonna make this a bit warmer
all this, okay
if nothing's happening which is the case here
that's just because the flow and densities are just too low, so let's go this way.
okay let's try again, it has to...
the whole idea is to make it a bit warmer not so much but
a bit warmer
okay it's still not enough so i'm gonna get the density to go up a little bit
okay and let's do one more time
one more time
okay it's a bit better
Yeah ! that's about it you know, it's just a bit warmer than the blue sky ok,
now let's make a new brush
let's keep the same settings
but let's make the flow
and the density a bit bigger and let's make the brush smaller
okay I want more
done here and on here
okay
the whole idea also is to warm up the top of the tower
the tower
must be warmed up
okay so now you've got a contrast between the blue sky and a bit of red here
it's completely false
but believe me
not much people is gonna see that
uh... at least per my experience
okay you know we're just getting creative here
you know I'm sorry if I'm justifying all the time but i get so much hammered
sometimes
because you know
it's not good, you know, it should have been right in the first place
in the camera, you know, you will go to jail
you know, these things happens so
okay so now i want to make this photo a little bit more dramatic and for this
I'm gonna show you a nice trick
I want the clouds to be more dramatic
so i'm gonna create a filter and in the filter
make sure everything is down to zero with the reset key
and um... boost the clarity
and just go like this
okay i make one
he uh...
one filter
and all it does, it boost the clarity and maybe gonna lower a bit the exposure
okay and i'm gonna make another one here
same thing
boost the clarity
and make the exposure a bit darker and now check it out: before...
after see how it get's the clouds just to be a little more dramatic
and you know how much i love drama !
okay
so that's kind of nice
now
i think i'm gonna go even lower on the exposure i want this to be dramatical
uh... no, maybe not
maybe not a good idear
always try things around i'm gonna go for sure post-crop vignetting
make a nice vignette around it, you know
and makes this very very dramatic
and i think uh...
i'm gonna add a bit of vibrance
to make the whole thing pop a bit more I love saturated photos! you know that by now
and if you don't like saturated photos well that's my taste! no...
if you don't like it you can just, you know
get the saturation, the vibrance to go the all way down, now you got like
almost, non colorful photo.
I just like it this side of life, you know, not that side of life of life
least but that's not all I think i'm gonna add a bit more contrast an overall contrast
I just really want the whole thing to pop you know
uh... okay that's kind of cool
and then one thing you can do also is then twist the colors, you can go into:
" hue saturation and luminance"
and let's go to "hue"
and in "hue" sometime I like to check around, I usually like to take the warm colors here
go a bit less, see what happens. ok it makes the whole thing a bit reder
maybe to the right
makes the thing a bit more...
less red
could be interesting: orange
Oh no, it goes too much red
and this way it goes too much...
Oh! it could be interesting maybe a bit that way and yellow let's go this way
or that way
you know you just check it up
see what you like
uh...
okay
and then if you want to see, okay what did I do? then you just go here "before"
and "after"
well I didn't do much, I really didn't do much
no sorry
it's this one: "before"
okay "before" and "after"
it's not so much, okay let's see if we get this Hue going...
it basically makes the whole thing a bit less saturated
but you know you can just click around I'm gonna make this just a bit redder
you know, I think I like that, to make it
even more contrasty, you know
minus eight on the red, you know, minus four on orange
okay before
after
uh... you probably cant not see it in the video, it's realy little retouch.
let me exaggerated for you, if I go red like this :(click)
this is gonna get really read
you know which is not
necessarily what i want
but you know try this at home I don't know if you can see it on the video but you know it's a subtle change
okay and uh...
that's basically it
let me show you the before
uh... now i went maybe a bit too fast so if this is the first time you see
one of my tutorials
check a couple of lightroom tutorials you know, this is episode number :
thirty-seven I believe
so, you know, you have a lot of other examples you will get used to see my work flow
but you know i always have this idear that I have alwaysthe same viewer all the time so,
i'm addressing to them
okay so let me show you the before uh...
the before photo,
let me press "Y"
in the development module if I press "Y"
I should be able to show you the before photo compared to the after. that's the before
that's the before photo
that's the after photo
you see how we have a...
not only contrast
you know in the lights and darks but contrast in the colors
and you can go on and on and on and on and you know just really go
more you dodge and burn more you paint on your photo more it's gonna be your own
Creation
you know i would actually
try to, you know, maybe do something more of dudge and burn real fast here
press the Commun "alt" key
and click here for resetting
okay i'm just gonna bring up the exposure and I just want to brighten up this
and brighten up that
part of this and that you know when you go by circle you know
it get some more complex lightning
but i think it's interesting maybe to brighten up a bit the trees here
you know and uh...
one right here
and on the bridge
yeah something like that that's gonna make a more interesting photo
so really use these brushes and these filters, it can really make a photo pop!
I'll show you again the "before" and "after"
that's the "before" and that's the "after"
quite a change
before/after
okay
before we finish
i want to show you one of my website photoserge.com
if you click here on the appstore this is where you get all my training
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now people have been asking me to get more uh... more information
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Lightroom 4 retouching for example just click on the icon of the training
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that's a lot of hours of training but this is like a reference you know and
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what you would be learning you can also watch the video it's gonna teach you...
show you the same thing
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okay folks thank you for following I advise you and i thanks you if you have the time
to purchase my full training it helps me
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I really go into more details and i give you all the RAW files
so you will learn even more thank you very much guys and let's get back to the
studio
okay i hope you like that tutorial I love doing this type of retouching lightroom
even so it's pretty unnatural i love it because i think it's creative
really it is and it makes sometimes awesome pictures
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next week as we say in france
bye-bye