Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
Lesson 32 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
Lesson 32 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Lesson Info
32. Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
Lessons
DAY 1
1Course Introduction
01:59 2Camera Gear for Travel
28:20 3What Camera Gear Should You Buy?
13:58 4Gear Bags for Travel Photography
20:19 5Location Research and Pre-Trip Planning
21:01 6Importing and Naming Conventions in Lightroom
19:33 7Processing Images with Presets in Lightroom
27:06Basic Develop Module Processing
20:59 9Travel Architecture Photography
07:29 10Tourists in Your Shots
21:28 11Travel Panoramas
08:07 12Travel Street Photography
22:45 13What to Photograph While Traveling
21:16 14Night Photography Tips
03:26 15Adjusting for Clean Backgrounds
26:00 16How to Correct Composition in Camera
18:46 17Framing and Composition Tips
21:23 18Folder System in Lightroom
33:04 19How to Find Any Image in Lightroom
06:16 20Keywording Tactics in Lightroom
18:04 21Sort Keywords in Lightroom
28:30 22Update Default Settings in Lightroom
15:55 23How to Process HDR Images in Lightroom
21:34 24Adjusting Panoramas in Lightroom
07:50 25Adjustment Brush in Lightroom
20:05 26Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
04:31 27Switching from Lightroom to Photoshop
12:42 28Using Masks to Make Adjustments in Photoshop
23:20 29Composite Images in Photoshop
31:09 30Focus Stacking in Photoshop
02:23 31Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
05:05 32Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
06:12 33Lens Specifications and Performance
39:06 34Clone Stamp, Healing Brush and Spot Healing in Photoshop
10:55 35Removing Tourists in Shots using Photoshop
07:49 36Tricks to Manual Cloning in Photoshop
08:51 37Content Aware Feature vs Healing Tools
16:30DAY 2
Lesson Info
Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
So if you think about what we've been doing in Photoshop, we generally do things that are either difficult to do in Lightroom, just inconvenient to do, or we do things that are, how would I say it, just impossible. Now, one thing I also mentioned was getting rid of little glows, 'cause sometimes you bring up clarity and you get this slight hint, like it feels like a dark in the sky right here. Well with things like that, I'm only gonna spend a minute on this, 'cause I don't just don't have another day (laughs), is I go to a tool over here that is called the Quick Selection tool, and I paint across the sky, and it should try to isolate it. If it selects too much, you can either go up here, and click on this minus sign, just say take away from instead of add to, or you could hold down the option key which temporarily gives you that, and I'm gonna come in here and if its got too much, I'm gonna try to get rid of the top of the temple there, 'cause I don't want it in that selection. I'm tr...
ying to just select the sky, where I had the little glow, okay. Right now, if I make any kind of change to my image, it's only gonna happen to the area that's selected, and usually I'd be more critical of that selection and be careful of making it. Right now we just need to do it, being in a hurry. I'm gonna do an adjustment layer now. You can use anything you want, brightness and contrast, curves, whatever you know how to use, and if you look at my mask, that selection got converted into the mask, which means, right now, this adjustment can only affect the area I had selected, which is my sky. What I'm gonna do is in this adjustment, I'm gonna brighten the image a little bit. The entire sky will get bright. Then I'll grab my Paintbrush tool. I'll paint with black with a soft edge brush, and I'm just gonna get it off of most of the sky, so that the only part of the sky this adjustment is affecting, is the part really close to that tower. Tower, it's not really a tower, Pagoda. So it's out here. So if you look at the mask, do you see it's just around the Pagoda, and so if I turn it off and on, can you see how it's just doing that, and do you see how I happened to pick approximately the right amount to get it in, but making the selection in the sky made it so it didn't affect the temple, and then I painted it with black, to say don't affect the rest of this sky, soft edge brush, tried to end relatively close to that, but usually I can help to eliminate that. I'm not gonna save that one, 'cause that wasn't precise enough. Questions, comments, concerns? What are we getting? I have a question, follow-up question, from Jack P. with regard to focus stacking. When do you do it manually versus allowing Photoshop to do it? Is it kind of like those scenarios where you said you had to be careful with regard to what was-- I rarely do focus stacking manually because it's very difficult to get them to blend together and look correct. What I would do, more or less, is if Photoshop didn't do a good job, I would try to find a specialized tool that's designed only for focus stacking. Oh, come on, there's two of them that come to mind. One is called Helicon Focus. Sorry that was my accessing the fileable back there. The other one is not coming to mind at the moment, but I would try to find a specialized tool designed only for that particular task, because usually they'll have more features and be able to handle more difficult images than a tool that can do just about everything, and it happens to have that feature. It's just like if you buy the copier, scanner, fax machine, you know, beverage cooler, all built in one, is it good at any of those things, compared to the dedicated fax machine or the dedicated scanner? Same thing with software. So look for a specialized tool for it, it'd be better, yeah. Maybe, another question had come in from Magnes Studio, who said, in yesterday's sessions you talked about blurring elements in the background in camera by narrowing depth of field via aperture. Yes. Have you ever used Photoshop layers with masks and smart blur filters? Have I ever? Well, yes, if you say have I ever, (laughs). When would you? Do I regularly? When would you? No I don't. I will sometimes soften a background a little bit, but usually it's not to get the really out of focus look. It's just to make it so it's not crisp. Instead I can make my subject crisp, and that helps keep my eye on the subject, but if I really want it to look like it's out of focus, there are too many situations where it's almost impossible to do it. You know, I have one person's face, and directly behind them, overlapping their shoulder is another person's face. I want that other person's face to look like it's naturally out of focus. When I try to blur it, the transition between their shoulder and other things, it's gonna make it so it's, it's not gonna look anywhere near real life. I will on occasion though, play with some things, but the difference of in camera versus digital when it comes to that, there's no comparison. Sure, if I owned a lens that only went to f56 or something, where I can't get to f2.8, I might need to resort to that, but I wouldn't look forward to it. I would much rather carry a big heavy lens than get gorgeous images right out of the camera, so, but that's just me.
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