All right, guys, let's go ahead and edit our photos, really.
We're going to be editing one photo and then applying those settings to our other favorite photos to
see which ones we like most, which ones we might want to post.
That was totally Dr. Seuss.
Didn't mean for that to rhyme.
Moving on.
So first thing you want to do is go to all photos and let's go down to the ones that we took today.
And just pick one to start with, and I'm just going to pick this one.
So first thing you want to do is just go in the light.
And let's start playing around a little bit.
So.
Exposure seems to be fine where it is.
I'm just going to leave it at zero, if you had a photo that was too dark, you can bring that up highlights.
The blue sky is really nice, but in a lot of my photos, I love the blown out sky look.
So I'm going to bring the highlights up a little bit.
And the shadows I'm going to bring down, I like more of the contrast, you look so a little too much
silhouetted, a little too much in the other direction is just there's not enough shadows that looks
kind of unnatural.
So let's bring that to about a negative.
15.
And I hardly ever play with the whites and blacks, so now let's go over to color.
And I don't ever play with the temperature because it just kind of ruins the photo if it's outdoors,
if you're indoors and your photos to orange, you can bring it some blue.
If it's too blue, you can give it some orange to compensate to get in the middle.
But this photo is in the middle already.
Same with tint brightness, though.
Sorry, Vibrance, you can bring the violence up if you're going for that really punched color.
Look, a lot of people love that.
It's happy, it's bright.
I kind of like the other direction.
I like that kind of ish high bleach bypass sort of look.
So I'm going to bring that down to a negative 20.
And same with the saturation just a little bit.
Let's do a negative.
Ten, so there's still some color left, but.
It is a lot more faded than before.
I like that style.
If you want to go for the high, punchy color, look, go for it.
So now let's go over to mix.
And let's start playing with some colors, and really all I like to do is go through all the colors
and just see what happens.
So drag the huge slider, see what happens.
Not a whole lot here.
So I'm not going to mess with the Reds.
Orange.
OK, we've got a lot happening here, so this is going to be a style choice, little to red, little
to yellow.
I do kind of like somewhere in the middle.
I'm going to bring just a little bit of read out of it, like a negative 10.
And these differences are going to seem so minut right now, but when I show you the before and after,
you'll notice the difference.
So let's play with the saturation.
So I.
I brought down the saturation of the rest of the image.
If you really favor the color orange, you can bring everything down like I did and then just boost
the oranges, which does look pretty nice.
I don't really like the oranges completely saturated, so.
Let's play with, let's say, a plus 15, the orange is a really cool color.
Plus 15, luminance can bring them up, bring them down.
I think that is a little too bleak and that might be a little too bright.
I do like the brighter side, though, so let's do a plus.
15.
That's still plus 10 on that.
OK, go to the yellows is changing just a little bit in the trees, you can see it on the trees and
then the reflection in the water.
I'm going to do a negative 10 on that.
Bring the saturation down just a little bit.
OK, Greens, same thing in the trees, so a lot of the time what happens is the greens are more of
the shadows in the trees and the yellows are more of the highlights.
So the greens.
Kind of like a little bit of green, so I'm going to punch out those just a little bit, still a plus
12.
Can play with the saturation.
I'm going to leave it at zero, though.
Luminance.
Not doing a whole lot, so let's leave it at zero.
All right, so the blues.
Light blues don't do a whole lot when you're shooting in the middle of the day like I did.
Ideally, I would have loved to take this photo at sunset, but with timing, I couldn't quite do that.
So let's go over to the dark blues.
And this is what's going to affect this guy more so you can really see the purple to light greenish
blue.
I always favor the light greenish blue just a little bit more, but like I always say, less is more.
So let's do a negative 10.
You can play with the saturation, I like it, desaturated just a little bit.
Let's do a negative 20.
Luminance, so that is Toubon out.
I do like a little bit of detail in the sky, otherwise it kind of turns into a dead space up there.
So down all of a sudden, you have ruined your image.
If you do this, you can see all of the pixels.
It just looks like a really poor quality image.
That's because you're trying to find detail behind that overexposed sky.
So this is why I always say to shoot just a little bit darker, because you can always bring those up.
But when you bring them down, you ruin your image.
So a little bit is OK.
But I kind of like the boosted sky, so I'm going to give it just a little bit of plus five.
Purple's.
Don't really do anything, so let's bring them back to zero.
Same with the Pink's not really doing a whole lot.
Let's see, Mesero it done.
Now for some polishing over the effects.
And boost your clarity or bring it down, some people like the soft, fuzzy dream, like, look, I'm
not that big of a fan.
I don't really like the super punched out either.
I always do.
Just a little bit.
Still a plus eight.
And I always add just a little bit of vignette, so just to show you what's going to happen, I don't
like the midpoint being way in.
I like it to be right on the corners just like that.
And we'll bring the vignette amount.
So that's to white.
This is a little too dark somewhere right about there, which again, you're not going to notice much
of a difference right now.
But when I show you the before and after, you'll see it.
And you can play with the rest of these settings, but I don't typically touch them.
And another thing that you can play with and to be honest, I don't touch it a whole lot, but maybe
you'll like this more as you can change the color and luminance and saturation of the highlights or
the shadows.
So if I want my dark shadows in the picture, which is kind of around the trees around her, I can just
drag this around and I can create a really cool look to it.
Cool isn't cold or I can do more of a warmer picture.
Kind of like she's standing on Mars.
Really just depends, and if you go to the very top, none of this is really going to look good.
So don't stay at the top, come down to where you're in the lighter area and then just drag across and
see what happens.
So some of these are cool.
It's not bad right there.
I'm going to leave it at zero to show you what we do with the highlights now.
So the highlights, same thing.
The sky is what's being affected the most because it's the brightest thing, so you could do, let's
say, a really cool sky.
And shadows, you can make really warm do kind of an aged photo, which is a really cool style, but
typically the adjustments here aren't as my nute as playing with settings.
So let's go back to zero.
Now, this photo needs to be brightened up now that I just saw playing with the highlights.
Let's go back over to light, boost the exposure just a little bit.
Still plus 50.
And let's call this done, so that's the before.
That's the after that is the style that I went for, if that's not your style, that's OK, play around
and see what you like, but I really like the way it's gone.
And really what you want to do is apply this throughout all of your photos that you're posting to Instagram
or Facebook.
And it's kind of like a photographer's signature onto your photos.
When they see that color profile, they think, oh my God, that looks like so and so's photo.
So develop a style and play with it throughout all your photos.
So now what you can do is go to the three dots at the top.
Hit copy settings, let's copy all of these settings, OK, and you can go back to your photos and apply
that same style to any photos.
Let's do the one right next to it, hit the three dots at the top and hit Paiste settings.
So now we've applied that same look to this photo.
And I'm doing this before and after by just holding my finger on the screen, so I'm holding, you can
see it letting go.
So let's go back and what else do we like?
I like this vertical one.
This would be a good one for Instagram, three dots page settings.
And now we can see what we've done.
Another cool trick you can do is find one small accent color that you can apply to all your photos.
So if you're typically in your photos or you're taking a photo of a friend, in this case, my girlfriend,
you can go to color.
She's got a red hat on.
I could tell her to bring that red hat every time I go take photos and it'll be consistent throughout
all the photos.
So go to mix and you can grab the Reds and pop them a little bit more.
Make that red hat really pop out.
So what I did there, so.
Again, go to any photo, take this one three dots, paste your settings.
Before, after, so this one needs to be cropped.
I've got too much on the left.
And it needs to be straightened.
Like that hit the check mark at the bottom and all you want to do is just go out and take 20 to 30 of
your favorite photos or of the same photo you probably won't like nineteen to twenty nine of them,
but you might like one.
So edit your favorite one, apply it to some of the other ones that you like, like your second, third
and fourth favorite.
And you may end up with a group of photos that you can post in a sequence to Instagram or Facebook and
they all look consistent with the same style.
So good luck.
Go try it yourself and I'll see you on the next lesson.