I've watched you evolve for years and your teachings have inspired me. The story behind Navajo: Portrait of a Nation should be required reading. Strobing a Saguaro, Priceless when you find the right one, the light is perfect, the background and sky are complimentary, and all your equipment gets out of the way. To quote you "its not easy!" Make it a great day Joel
Great Video: Useful information on a side note , we have met a couple of times at the Adobe Max conference and I always appreciate you taking the time to talk and give pointers. Keith D. Aguilar
Joel, I purchased your Still-Life Masterclass, What a game changer for me! I have created 10 images, with the Cross Light technique, Wow! I also got your Masterclass, have not started that, as I keep replaying the still life class, Lol. Great stuff!
Great tutorial. The human face is such a delicate place for retouching and knowing when to stop is so important. I would want to make the door frame vertical. Maybe thats a shooting thing and not for pp.
Really love the way the portrait was retouched and found why 45mp sensor is good, we can zoom in really close to edit the skin so it blends well and looks perfect. I am.lacking this kind of zooming flexibility with my canon eos r6.
This is excellent tutorial thank you. One question, how do you work on dodge and burn on an empty layer. I manage to do it only on the actual layer. thank you
Thanks ran! If you add a layer of 50% gray above, in Overlay you should be able to use the dodge and burn tools just like this. Let me know how you get on!
Hey Joel. Been a fan and follower of yours for as long as youve been around. Curious though, on your retouching, healing brush, do you normally keep on Normal mode or do you at all use Lighten Darken modes. I find on skin, not all, that as you know im sure it heals only the needed pixels for each click. In many cases it might not matter but I just after many years of doing that its become a habit regardless. And thank you again for raising my image game so many years ago.
have you looked at Davinci Resolve for color adj and color grading? It's designed for video but you can drop TIFF files into it and the color page has no equal when it comes to adjustments (has an HDR set of controls)
Hi Joel! It's great, thank you very much. I have a question for the degraded tool. Does it work for me only on a flat layer or on the original, but not on a level layer ?! How do you do? I must have missed something!
Hi Joel I am your big fan from Thailand I just purchased the one light master class on Facebook but I don’t receive any email to access the lesson Could you please help me? I not sure that I wrote the wrong Email or not 😢😢😢
So I'm new to lightroom and trying to learn it....and now I see this....why is everyone using both when it seems you can do most on one or the other.....what am I missing here....
It’s a common question Oleg, and really it comes down to workflow. When it comes to retouching, Photoshop has always been my go to. Working with multiple layers and blending modes is a must for me. Whatever works for you, helps you work quickly, and stay inspired when your editing is all that matters! Then you can spend more time shooting! 📸
I need to skip your RU-vid ad which appears on almost 40% of photography channels. I said why does Joel makes ads when himself posts a video only a few times a year? Please post at least 3 times a month.
I just don't understand the whole "make people look different than they do". I could see taking a pimple out, or something that would be gone in a few days anyways.
My purpose is to teach techniques, not tell you what needs to be taken away or added. Sometimes I do edits that are pretty harsh with the goal of teaching the most technically. What you do with that info is up to you as the artist! Enjoy!
I did it to the 14 minute mark but couldn't go any further. Sorry, as you removed the scar off his face I had to stop. I was once told that when a photographer is removing scars or anything else that's still in the face after two weeks (mostly anything but pimpels), one should immediately stop working with him. These scars / freckels / moles make the person individual and tell a story. Sorry, this is a no-go.
This video is not a tutorial about how to retouch a portrait but simply watching someone quickly touch up their photo with no instruction as to why, where and how you can use the dodge and burn tool. Also it's not much help unless you are already very proficient in PS. Disappointing. I expected more from Joel Grimes Photography.
If you want why, where, and how, go ahead and buy his tutorials where you can find what you are demanding here in a free to watch channel. If for some reason you don't want to buy his tutorials, keep clicking and searching on RU-vid, but remember that you are not paying for anything here, so don't be too hard on others if you don't like what they posted..