Masterpieces in Minutes - ON1 Recorded Webinar

so today we're going to be talking about masterpieces minutes in photo raw 2021 and really inside photo raw 2021 there are so many different ways you can bring out all of the different tones and colors within your landscape so i really just want to showcase easy and quick ways that you can turn your landscape images into really creative awesome works of art so let's start with this photograph here the first thing we probably want to do with our image is bring out the basic tonalities within it we have this raw photograph here and without modifying anything on it we have just kind of a blank canvas to work with well because raw processing is so easy in photo raw we can bring out the basic tones in our shot in various different ways um if you're a person that really just likes to use one click to kind of create the the basic tones in your shot you can use this ai auto button to easily just bring out the basic tonalities within your shot and kind of set the foundational look if you're like me and you like to tinker with things a bit you can go in here to the camera profile and you can actually modify the camera profile if you're shooting in a raw image so because this is a raw image file i can actually choose this camera profile menu and just by hovering over any of these you can see it does a whole lot to my photograph now one of my favorites here is either this on one landscape especially for landscape images or this camera vivid i really like that camera vivid to bring out all of those underlying colors within the shot so i'll choose that and that camera vivid is basically emulating the uh the vivid look on my dslr camera that i was shooting with so it's really powerful little tool here this camera profile menu to just make everything pop within your scene so with two clicks you know we've used our a auto and our camera vivid we have from this image we have this shot so um like i said earlier there's so many different ways you could do that if you wanted to do it manually you could just reset all of this and we could go in here and do this all manually with our tone and color here let's say we want to add in a little bit more vibrance and we also want to bring out some of those underlying uh mid-tones within our shot well let's just go down to our mid-tones i'm going to pull those up a bit that's going to bring out some of those middle grays within the scene and then let's add in some contrast so the image doesn't look flat oops pull up on our shadow tones a little bit that's going to bring out some of those darker tones within the image just like that and then let's just go down to our saturation and let's just increase the saturation a bit so you know with a few sliders here now we have this image so there's so many different ways that you can go in and tinker with the tonalities of your shot if if you're a person that just likes to have the program do it for you which is awesome you can use that ai auto button and then maybe one of these camera profiles or if you want to go in and fine tune every single slider you can do that as well so really up to you on kind of your preference to stylizing and modifying photos um i typically late as of lately have just been using a camera profile and then choosing ai auto and then just kind of messing with it from there so i'll just probably pull up on my mid-tones a bit and there we go so that's how easy it is to set the underlying tonalities within your image now let me show you how easy it is to stylize and selectively edit so in this landscape we obviously have a pretty bright sky right there's a pretty pretty bright area to the left and up here above this mountain it's a little bit too white and there's not much detail within that sky well using photo raw 2021's new color range gradients we can selectively edit that area in an instant with our local adjustments so let me just go into my local adjustments tab and i'll just hold down shift and hit k on my keyboard that's going to grab me my adjustable gradient i can just drop that down on my horizon line i'll flip this around so that it's applied to the sky and if i turn off this local adjustment it's applying it to the entirety of that area you can see that if i go to my mask view it's covering the mountains in my background and i don't want that i only want to apply to the sky area so let's view this photograph and i'm just going to head up and choose color range now once i choose color range now if i view my mask it's selectively applying this adjustment to those areas of color that i'm choosing so i'm just going to use my color dropper and i'll drop it on this area of white up here and there we go now it's only applied to that area up there in white and nowhere else on my scene so if i view this now it's a little bit crunchy because it's masking but if i turn this off and on it's doing an awesome job of bringing back those details within that blown out area and one thing i typically do with the masks here is if it's like this and you have a little bit of you know that does a really good job of masking it so if you have a really defined edge it may look awkward when you're using a a darkening uh local adjustment or something where you're darkening or brightening so if you have these edges in here that are a little bit jaggedy just go over to your masking options in this adjustment and since everything is maskable and blendable in photo raw we can just feather this mask like that so now if i zoom out i don't have those jagged edges and if i turn this off and on it's a much more natural looking adjustment so in this local adjustment just by using that one uh adjustment layer here we've modified that entirely the entirety of that sky area and we've brought back all of that detail in it so now let's just add in a little bit of contrast there to make sure it pops and then i'm gonna go down and i'm just going to warm it up a little bit just a hair like that so now if i turn this off and on it's not only adding in detail to that sky it's making it pop a little bit more and it's also adding in some some color so we have a much more interesting background now than we did before so we've started with this image and now we're moving on to this photograph and i think that may need a little bit less of that adjustment i might need a little bit of a of a white boost so it's not so flat that's better much better like that so um using that local adjustment layer it's done a whole lot to our image and we can do the same thing to our foreground let's say if we want to add in detail or color to these greens we can do that with an effect so let's just go into our effects i'll add a filter i'll use my color enhancer filter which is an awesome filter for modifying colors within your shot and if you're not familiar with photo raw or using photo raw 2021 or even the latest version of photo raw if we add a filter in our effects tab we can actually search for different filters that apply specific effects to our images so if i want to find a filter that modifies color i can just type in color and then i have all of these different filters that modify the color within my shot and i chose color enhancer which is kind of the standard color modifying filter because you have all of these different adjustment sliders that you can use to modify all the colors in your shot i'm just going to go down and pop the saturation quite a bit and the vibrance just like that and i think that looks pretty good so far we're going to modify this so it's selectively applied but if we're just focusing on the greens in our foreground i think that looks pretty good but i don't want that applied to the entire image i only wanted to apply to these colors in my foreground so i'm going to hit m on my keyboard i can drop this down and then if i turn this off and on again it's still applied to the entire thing so i only want it applied to these greens so let's just go into our masking options i'll choose color range i'll drop it on this area of green here now if i view this i can fine tune my color range like that and now it's only applied to those areas in green where i'm picking that that mask or that i'm applying that mask to so let's view this now and i'm going to turn this up quite a bit so we can really see what's going on but now if i turn this off and on see i was only applying those colors to those green areas and we could always modify you know the the color range here so we want less that might work a lot better there we go so now it's only applied to those areas of that green color and you can always go in and fine tune you know any of those adjustments or where that adjustment is applied to just by modifying this coloring slider and if you're familiar with masking you can modify your level slider too to really kind of hone in whatever adjustment you're trying to apply to your shot so if i hit the backslash key my keyboard we already have a much more interesting photograph going on and we've only added on a color enhancer a local adjustment and we've modified our develop tab a little bit so not a whole lot uh that we've done to the shot and we have a much more interesting photograph so let's just fine tune this a little bit i'm just going to add a filter and i'm going to add a vignette filter like that but i'm going to take this off of the sky so i'm just going to hit m on my keyboard and drop that down and just going i'm going to remove that from the top area of my sky so it's only applied to the bottom and that'll just kind of force the viewer's attention into the central area of the shot and we'll avoid all these other areas on the foreground so if i hit the back size key my keyboard now i think that makes for a much more interesting sky and also a much more interesting foreground element that leads our eyes kind of into the scene here so one last thing i'm going to do i'm just going to add a filter and i typically just add a curves filter kind of polish things up and i think i might darken up the shadow tones just a hair like that and then pull up on my highlights of hair to make things pop a bit kind of polish up the scene and perfect i think that looks a lot better more kind of a punchy image now so again let's just view our original we started with this photograph and now we have this image in just a few kind of adjustments and we've easily selectively applied our adjustments too by using those new color range gradients in photorot 2021 and the next edit we have this little milky way edit i just want to show you guys again some some ways you can selectively edit and apply inside photo raw because i know that's okay so let's go in here to the edit module okay so we have this raw image file here and i have nothing applied to it this is just kind of the basic um un edited raw file here so if i zoom in we have some detail in our in our milky way here and we do have some detail in our foreground so i think we could really push this raw file again to have um you know all of the tonalities that we kind of envisioned when we were shooting it so first things first we need to bring out the basic tones of the shot and again there's so many different ways you can do that one way i typically do it with these milky way images is i'll go to this camera profile and i'll choose on one neutral i think neutral just kind of neutralizes the scene a bit it brings out some of the the mid-tones in the shot and you can see just by doing that just by choosing that on one neutral if i hit the backslash key on my keyboard it does a pretty good job of just boosting up the mid-tones and kind of alleviating some of those darker shadows on my shot now what i can do is i can just pull out on the basic tones of my shot just using sliders um i don't like to use a auto for milky way shots just because you're dealing with so many different tones at once so i typically do this all with my tone and color and i don't do a whole lot of processing i usually just go in here i'll pull up on my mid-tones that's going to pull out the middle grays within the shot so i can see you know those middle grays in my sky and that makes these stars pop out in the milky way and then i want some shadow tones right so i'll just pull up on the shadow tone slider here and that's just going to bring out you know those darker areas within the image now i'll add in some contrast because you don't want things looking flat in a milky way image the more i guess you can have too much contrast but the more contrast you have the more pop you have within the stars if that makes sense so i'm just going to pull up on the contrast right there and then if i hit the back side to keep my keyboard that doesn't look too bad that looks fine like that and then i'm just going to go down and i'm going to cool this image off a bit with just the temperature slider so cool it down about 20 or so just like that keeping it nice and natural if it's a little bit too warm it looks odd i feel like with milky way images so if you are modifying milky way images just make sure your your temperature is how you like it because it can kind of come off too warm or too cool sometimes so just make sure there's like a balance there um yeah that looks i think that looks fine for our base uh look let me just crop this real quick and then rotate it like that cool that's uh looks much better okay so now with our shot we have basically two areas that we need to modify we have our foreground our foreground sorry and then we have our background right well in photorod 2021 you can selectively apply pretty much anything that you want to a photograph so i want to selectively apply a curves filter strictly to my stars i don't i don't want the the curve filter applied to my foreground i only want to apply to the stars so i'm going to go into effects i'm going to add a filter i'll add the curves filter and with this curves filter typically with milky way photos i create sort of a basic s curve with my curves filter here so i'll pull down the shadows a little bit that's going to add in darker tones to the shot and it's going to remove exposure but it's also going to add in detail to those darker areas right but it darkens things up too much so i can pull up on my mid-tone point here now maybe i don't need that many shadows like that i can pull up on my mid-tone point now and you can see just like that it's really adding in a lot of light and a lot of punch to my sky now i can see that milky way a lot more and i think we need to cool this photo down maybe even a tad bit more there we go so let's go to the effects tab now and i have that curves filter applied doing a really good job of just boosting and up those stars in my shot but i don't like what it's doing to the foreground it basically darkens everything up in my foreground i only want it applied to those stars so let's just go in here i'm going to use my masking options and i'm going to use a luminosity mask again so i'll just choose lumen and i can view this and again with the luminosity mask it's automatically going to find the brighter areas within your shot and then apply that adjustment to those so i can see the brighter areas are these star areas so in white white reveals black conceals it's applying that curves filter so i'll just go over to my curves filter and i need to modify this level slider here so that i can only only apply this adjustment to this area on the background so we're going to modify our level slider same thing we're just going to pull up on the shadows and that's going to remove the shadows from our mask but i need more mid-tones so i'll pull left on the mid-tones and that's going to incorporate more mid-tones then i can incorporate more highlights i could pull right on the shadows and that's going to remove it from my mountain add in more mid-tones we'll add in more highlights and that looks pretty good just like that what now typically what i'll do is i'll just use my brush here i'll switch it to paint in and then i can use my perfect brush oops make it a bit smaller and i can just paint on all the areas that this mask missed just like that and i can always fine-tune those areas that i painted onto the mountain but i think this looks pretty good for just applying it to the sky so then i'll just zoom in real quick again i'll grab my masking brush switch that to paint out now and then i can just remove those little areas away just like that so now i can see that it's only applied to the sky area and it's not applied anywhere else on my shot and this is a very helpful tool if i want to take this mask and apply to other adjustments i can invert this mask so now that i have this mask created i can view this if i turn this off and on now it's doing a wonderful job of only applying that adjustment to the background but it makes the the foreground elements look a bit weird but we can use this mask we just created i'll just copy this mask i'll add a filter we'll use dynamic contrast i'll use surreal just so we can see what we're working with and then i'll go to my masking options i'll paste that mask and then i can just invert it and now that's applied to my foreground now so if i turn this dynamic contrast filter off and on it's applying that detail right into the foreground and it's avoiding all of those areas in the top and i can of course you know pull back on the opacity as much as i want to really just make it look natural but i think that looks pretty good as far as just you know a few adjustments and creating our milky way shot let's just hit the back slash key on our keyboard we started with that we started with this photograph and now we have this image

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Keywords: Photo Editing, Image Editing, Photo Editor, Image Editor, Lightroom Alternative, Photoshop Plug-ins, Lightroom Plug-ins, ON1, Photo 10, ON1 Photo RAW, on1 photo raw 2021 tutorials, ON1 Photo RAW 2021

Id: yIPkQshMuYM

Length: 18min 12sec (1092 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 07 2020