Use Local Adjustments to create dramatic Landscape Photos in Photoshop | QE #298

In this quickedit video I‘m creating a dark, moody winter landscape using #Adobe #Photoshop for the #editing of the photo.

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0:00 Intro
For this photo I wanted to get rid of the warm color cast and apply a much colder look. I wanted to make the sky a lot more dramatic by restoring details from the clouds and also make the water in the foreground look more interesting. The editing here was done using Adobe Photoshop, that means I did the basic raw adjustments in the Camera Raw editor.

0:42 1. Basic Adjustments
I activated the Lens corrections and switched the camera profile to Adobe Standard. To remove the color cast I adjusted the white balance temperature. The base exposure was alright, so I just increased the whites and added vibrance.

1:35 2. Local Adjustments
To make the photo more dramatic I used a few local adjustments. First, I used graduated filters on the sky. Here I simply dropped the exposure, increased the contrast and added clarity to bring out details from the clouds.

For the water in the foreground I used a radial filter and further increased the whites, the texture and the clarity.

2:43 3. Color Grading
I wanted to get rid of all the greens, so I dropped the green hue altogether. In the saturation tab I increased the orange and blue saturation a bit. Finally, I used split toning to apply a very subtle blue color to the shadows.

4:04 4. Photoshop
I started by using a levels adjustments layer to add more contrast to the sky. Furthermore, I wanted to add some glow to the bright parts here using a hard light layer and a white brush. With some dodging and burning I added brightness to a few spots and darkened other parts of the photo. Since I had the feeling the sky was too saturated, I turned it black & white to get rid of the blues in there.

One of the biggest changes was made using the perspective warp. With this tool I made the mountains in the back look a lot taler.

Видео Use Local Adjustments to create dramatic Landscape Photos in Photoshop | QE #298 канала Christian Möhrle - The Phlog Photography