For this installment of Soda Pop Talk, I wanted to choose an image that I actually did a lot of work on in Photoshop.
We took Easton’s 2 year old pictures about 3 weeks ago, during a nice warm-spell here in Denver. We were shooting about an hour before sunset, so the light was a little brighter than I had hoped. Here is the metadata for the image below:
1/3200, f1.7, ISO200, 85mm. The image was also overexposed by two stops in camera. Anytime I am back-lighting a client I will most always overexpose the image so they won’t look so dark.
Editing Steps:
1. Opened in LR and added a small amount of fill to lighten up his face and added a little more black to get some more contrast in his clothes.
2. Exported to PS
3. In PS, I used my clone tool to lighten up under his eyes a bit. I also cloned out the tree that was sticking out of his head.
4. I used the Ying/Yang action (using the burning tool would also work) to darken the wheat/grass/weeds around him so it didn’t look so blah (like my technical terms?).
5. Ran Oh Snap (part of the TRA action set) at about 50%
6. Ran Fade Up Summer (also from TRA). This is a very strong action, so I used it at about 10% to give the image more of a warm-feeling.
7. Sharpened for web. I have three different sharpening actions…for print, for web and for Facebook. All of them have different numbers and resolutions.
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Great before and after! What a difference a little editing does. He is adorable
The pp looks great! Do you export from LR and save as a jpg before taking into PS, or just take it right to PS from LR using “edit in” (ctrl E). I’m a LR user that has just learned PS and am confused on the best way to bring it in PS.
Thanks for sharing! I love seeing the befores and afters and hearing others’ techniques!
This is great Keri – I love seeing the before and after and also love that you give the steps. You rock girl!
Win ticket…Darci!!!
Love your technical terms! Thanks for the info….!! I love following your blog.