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Growing appreciation for these subtle, yet powerful distinctions in editing that you have presented. As others have said, the illustration using that beautiful oil painting really helps to convey the point you are making. Truly an excellent video on the concept you wanted to highlight - job well done.
Been photoshopping a long time. Always looking for knowledgeable folks to learn from. Get tired of most of them. Think I found one!!! Your presentation is game changing for me! Well done… thank you!
Great choice of photo to edit. Using those fantastic paintings to illustrate makes a huge difference when you see someone can actually produce such amazing works of art. All the hard work you put into this channel and your courses is very much appreciated Will. Pointing out that some of the sky is also closer is a good reminder I think. The speedy bit at the end made me laugh :-)
Thank you as always Caroline 🙏🏻 Yeah realistically I can’t do a full process on an image in one sitting, which is annoying when it comes to doing these quick RU-vid lessons, haha. So at least the speedy part at the end shows some of the extra little adjustments which still happen after the initial pass over.
Thank you!!! It makes more sense now. The way you talk makes your video's very relax to watch. Not to much information at once, makes it watchable for me.
I have been watching your videos for a while and have to say that they are the most practical from technique of photographing as well as editing I have ever seen. Another chapter is your on field exploring - great work William ! :)
This has finally made me understood how and why professional landscape photographers' material looks the way it does! I think I'm reasonably skilled in portrait editing and macro photography, but thank you a bunch for adding to my competence in editing landscapes too!
It is so simple how You explain 🙂 from the time I was started watch you video my edits is going into right way. Looking in my past photo edits and new one I see results by use brush tool 🙂 Thank You so much!!! 😉
Thank you William for the thorough explanations. You provide a very simple and logical approach to global and local adjustments that anyone can understand. Will make a tremendous improvement to my images. Thank you again!
Will, your videos are the best I've seen with post processing. What I have problems with is the decision making... deciding exactly where I need to increase or decrease contrast, dehaze, bring the color up or down, etc. At this point in my progress, I definitely tend overdo it. Your videos are really really helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for perhaps the best 16+ minutes on RAW editing I've seen. You explained the goals so clearly and simply, and the demonstrations easy to follow. I will surely check out your other tutorials on this topic. I knew/know of the masking tools in LR, but using them in the way you described was quite enlightening. It helped too, that I have a similar image and as you spoke I cold immediately relate your words to my image.
I’ve been doing all that editing in photoshop because I didn’t realize you could work so selectively with a brush in Light Room! I thought you were basically confined to global adjustments unless you were willing to do huge amounts of complex masking, which just feels like an alien process to me. Even the way I use Pshop is very clunky, so I’m really excited to think that maybe shooting raw and using Light Room holds some promise for me after all. Thank you! One of the things I might have done with the details on the side of the mountain, rather than lightening the details, is to increase the saturation of the things like the shrubbery. In Pshop, that actually lightens things a bit as well. Is that something you ever do? I find that saturating the shadows can lend a subtle richness to the surface too - but that may be because I print my photos on dead matte papers. This was a terrific video. You made a very complicated process seem simple enough to try!
William, you're a breath of fresh air. Just subscribed a couple of weeks ago and glad i did. Trend (prob from social media) seems to be whack up the dehaze and clarity front to back. I've gone with negative contrast and negative texture as my base for landscapes and then only bring back the texture/contrast by the same amount in the foreground areas so as not to over sharpen and keep the landscape looking soft.
The way the highlights brush made the image pop was awesome, especially bringing out the gold glow on that little patch of water and the grass on the distant cliff. I was amazed at what the camera had actually captured in the sky. I am far more careful now about deleting raw images since watching your channel (disappointment made me reckless). Thanks, William.
Thanks Joan, I'm glad I could shed some light on what's captured vs what is seen in the RAW/camera. The more you shoot and process these large dynamic range scenes, the easier it gets and more confident you will be out in the field :)
Many thanks William, your teaching style has always been really beneficial as with the use of the brush, very much appreciated. Now to go back and check out the ones I did not edit.
Bro, thanks for the effort. Great vid as always. I really struggle with getting the right exposure in my images to display them right on social media, website and print. Any tips on how to set brightnes on your monitor and background color in lightroom when editing? Setting the bg color in lightroom on white seems to help, but it hurts the eyes.
Thanks a lot mate. I like the monitor about 80%. For print, I have a video on that so check it out but essentially you need to really lift the shadows and blacks to compensate for the paper. For socials and screens in general just reference the histogram and make sure your images have some bright tones toward the right of the histogram. If you don’t, it means you’re lacking and ‘brights’ or brightness in general. Technically that’s fine but it means the images will look flat on screens.
Thanks bro, that's really helpful and I will try it. Your channel is a real treasure! Keep up the good work, your content is unique and a real blessing for so many photographers.@@WilliamPatinoPhotography
What? No AI masking? 😉 I had forgotten how satisfying it is to build up those adjustments using brushes. Thank you for reminding me to get back to what is really effective for editing. Might have to take some of your courses.
I bought some of your courses and i really like them. You are a good teacher. I wonder if you have any courses or video about timelapsing? I really want too learn it. Thanks from Norway
This is Photoshop. I don't use Lightroom at all, no need. If you want LR to help you sort your files, then you can use it for that, but I prefer to sort and save everything myself manually. For processing, PS can do everything LR can, and more. Personal preference though, there's no right or wrong. The workflow in this video can work in both anyways.
Very nice guide, once again :) Lately it's not the "how" to edit a file that's really bothering me, it's the amount of files and the time it takes. We came back from our summer road trip across Italy with some 450gb of photos and videos and god damn does it take a while to process... I wish it could be faster ^^
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography Yeah, i try to do the same... It's a bit hard to filter because on top of "hobby" or "artsy" pictures, these are also "family" pictures too and even tho some are "bad" on a photography level, they are still worth keeping for other reasons. I've started applying similar edits to batches of photos a bit more now, since editing every individual shot is a bit too much. I go in with individual edits, brushes and stuff on the best ones, but it still takes a while. Kinda makes one want to go back to shooting JPG, doesn't it? ;)
Yes, it’s definitely time consuming, but for me that’s part of the fun. I take photos in the woods, only loosely framed, and am often amazed at what I “find” as I zoom in and around the photos on my computer later. I never throw a photo out till I’ve done that. I found a fine frog sitting at the bottom of a pool of water once that way! Never saw him in my camera. We’ve got so many pixels to work with now, it can be an entirely different kind of adventure.
@@jmhatyoutube6283 You are right about the cropping part! My camera is "only" 24mp, so nothing like the insane 100mp monsters people use now, but it's still pretty "forgiving" in terms of cropping. Indeed, often i end up with a composition that's very different from my original shot. Must be because i am generally an amateur and my comps suck on location, but being able to "salvage" a shot by cropping a bit is pretty nice :)
I understand having true black at the foreground fading to grey the further one goes into the background but I feel that the foreground in the sample photo was/remained underexposed. It feels unnatural to have such a dark foreground, like a very heavy vignette at the bottom part. I appreciate different people, different aesthetics but how do you 'explain' the foreground being so dark, darker than the side of the cliff that is in the shade.
