BLUE HOUR Mountain Landscape Editing with Adobe Photoshop CC | QE #263

In this quickedit video I‘m working on a blue hour mountain landscape photo which I’m #editing using #Adobe #Photoshop, the TK Panel and the Nik Collection Plug in

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As the original raw was quite dark (the exposure did look good on the camera display) my goal for this shot was to first increase it’s brightness. Besides that, I still wanted to have a rather dark, dramatic sky and overall a strong contrast. Besides using Photoshop with the camera raw editor, I also used the TK Panel plug in to do the dodging and burning with luminosity masks and the Nik Collection plug in for some final processing. At this point I want to say most of the editing could have been done in Lightroom!

1. Basic Raw Adjustments
I started with activating the lens corrections, then changed the camera profile to Adobe Standard which reduced the contrast a bit (so I have more control over it myself). I slightly changed the white balance by increasing the temperature and making everything a bit warmer.

To counter the darkness of the image I increased the exposure slightly and the whites quite a bit. Straight away I added some contrast and further boosted it by dropping the shadows. Now to get more details in the photo I carefully increased the clarity which works great on mountain landscapes.

2. Local Adjustments
Not much going on here. I dragged a graduated filter over the sky and dropped the exposure to make it darker. I added a small radial filter over the left mountain and inside it increased the clarity for more detail.

3. Colour grading
To bring out the orange tones of the mountain I increased it’s saturation, as well as the blue saturation. Now since it was blue hour I went with a purple-ish colour tone for the highlights and a cold colour tone for the shadows using the split toning.

4. Photoshop
I started by using the TK panel to create luminosity masks. With those I can target specific luminosity ranges which I used to do the dodging and burning. Then I used the Nik Collection Plug in to apply the brilliance / warmth filter which adds a nice warmth to the photo.

Видео BLUE HOUR Mountain Landscape Editing with Adobe Photoshop CC | QE #263 канала Christian Möhrle - The Phlog Photography