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The other beginner's mistake I used to make when I first went digital, and I see others make, is not walking away for a while before making final colour adjustments. You'll be sitting in front of a great big screen and you'll have warmed everything up a bit, and 10 minutes later your nearly done but think it could use a touch more warmth, and then when you look at it the next day, you can't understand how it turned out like it was covered in honey. You're eyes adjust to the colour in your photo, the same way they do to colour casts in the environment, and you stop seeing what you've done unless you walk away for a bit and let your eyes normalise again.
Thanks, Steve. Been shooting in RAW since 2004ish and I'm so glad I did. I can go back to files and correct some of the examples you point out, now my editing skills have improved over the years.
@4:48 you said the photo is over-balanced "the sky too dark foreground too bright" and so on. But your first edit with those mistakes is better than the re-edit imo. The original is more energetic whereas the re-edit the energy has been taken out.
Hi Stan - you could create an action that does much of the work. I showed an action that got half way there on around day 12 of the Breakthrough... Which reminds me I've been meaning to send an email/update regarding that specifically... I'll get that out over the weekend :D
Hi, Steve! So what do you actually edit in RAW? Because to me it seems that you're basically editing everything on a JPG-level. Once you've gone out from the RAW-tool and start editing with LAYERS in PS, you no longer have access to the RAW-tool. So many of those things have more control while you're still in RAW. To me it sounds like you're jumping over your first warning quite quickly. Please elaborate what advantages you get with editing with layers (that aren't as editable as RAW)? 🤔
