Zion National Park: LR/PHOTOSHOP/TOPAZ STUDIO 2 & MASK AI

[Music] hello everyone welcome to the joy of editing with David Kelly on today's episode I have a treat for you this image is not my own here this is from Zion National Park this image was sent to me from a viewer a really good photographer his name is Daniel charnetski I'm gonna link his website in the description below so you can click on it and check out his work there it's really amazing so do yourself a favor and check that out also Daniel's been published in several articles in the US and UK and also he has some large canvases hanging in major US hospitals in the United States so this image starts out right here and I thought we would replace the sky do some noise reduction on it because if it shot it at a pretty high ISO and will sharpen it up and we're gonna work on the color a little bit and it's gonna be fun and it's gonna end up looking like this one we're done I'm really excited about this episode thank you so much Daniel for letting me edit your picture today this starts out as a camera raw image and let's get started okay so we're starting out here in Lightroom let's just take a look here this was a canon 5d mark ii same camera that i own this is Daniel's image and let's see here and ISO mm 24 millimeter it was a 24 to 105 zoom lens shot at f/8 and one eight one eight hundred thousand which may have been handheld I'm not sure on that but let's take a zoom in and take a look at the noise here yeah we can see there's a good bit of noise in here and some dust spots in here we'll take care of those now we could do that here and light when we can get rid of the dust spots or we can do it in in Photoshop let's go to develop and let's just click Auto and see what kind of results we get you can see the camera raw image and every nothing is adjusted yet so let's go ahead and click auto and see what kind of adjustment we get Wow there's our adjustment there let me get rid of this over here and okay so I might just pull the highlights back a little bit and shadow that looks pretty good right there maybe give it a little bit more blacks give it a little extra contrast looking good I never really take the auto setting just the way it is I like to you know adjust it the way like I'm not gonna touch the texture or anything yet we'll work in Photoshop for that and the vibrance now looks pretty good let's see what happens when we give it a little more vibrant it's okay that was pretty good where it was saturation was at a minus three let's double click this and get it back to where it was yeah I think that looks pretty good and as far as detail I'm gonna shut the sharpening off no noise reduction I'm just gonna leave the color noise reduction on because that's just part of my workflow let's go to lens Corrections and I have remove chromatic aberrations checked on enable profile Corrections checked on I always like to do that and Lightroom picks out the proper lens for us okay so we're good to go so now I'm gonna right click this and let's go ahead and send this into edit in Photoshop and we'll get started from there let's go ahead and get rid of our dust bus first like there's one right here and here I see one over here and one up here I'm just gonna put a blank pixel layer right above the background layer here and let's put a curse layer above there a curse adjustment layer just to see if we can help see if it can help us see those dust Wessel but I'm just gonna pull straight up in this curve here just lighten it up a little bit and maybe darken down on the shadows a little bit okay yeah so they're there they're up there okay so go on to your blank pixel layer get your healing brush type J to get the healing brush up make sure sample all layers are clicked and let's just start the paint over these dust spots here here's the other one right here there's one over here and here and I'm just using that curves adjustment layer just to help me see them a little bit better and I'm just studying it close if I miss one I can come back later and get it okay so now we can go ahead and get rid of this curves adjustment layer we don't really need it and I'm gonna just gonna right click here and I'm gonna merge this down this dust spot here down to the original background there okay that's good let's duplicate the background layer commander control J we need to denoise this guy and for that I'm going to use topaz D noise AI so I'm coming up to filter and topaz labs and we will launch D noise AI now I have D noise ai and sharpen ai now there is sharpening here inside of denoise ai which is really great if your image is relatively sharp that will get the job done but if you have any issues like camera shake where there was a soft image due to camera shake or you just think get the focus quite right D noise AI won't correct any of those type of focus issues sharpen AI will and I hand hold a lot of my images so I have a lot of like sometimes soft images because my camera moved a little bit or a little bit of camera shake so sharpen AI works wonders for me and that's my workflow so I'm gonna show you my workflow this image is relatively sharp I could probably just use the sharpen in here and that would be fine but I'm showing you my workflow so here's my workflow have auto update preview unchecked I'm gonna take my sharpen to take it the whole way back because remember I'm not gonna use any sharpen in here I'm gonna use sharpening out for that I'm gonna take my noise the whole way back now I have the split-screen set up here and if you go to view here you have single views split view side-by-side view I like the split view because all it takes us a line and drag it across okay and so again the image on the left will be the original the image on the right will be after noise reduction I'm gonna zoom in to 200% so we can really see the noise but you see the noise and let's really take notice in the rocks you see all the noise in here alright so what I'm gonna do is turn auto update preview back on check that and I'm just going to take the noise and I'm gonna move it up to I usually like to start out like around a 10 and it'll update itself now look at that noise now that noise is totally gone okay but what should this area right here I'm just gonna bump it back let's bump it back to maybe let's bump it back to maybe a 5 I just want to see a little bit of noise you can see a little bit of noises in there right just a tiny little bit so what I'm gonna do is maybe go up to a six and then let it update again yeah it's pretty good I might take it up to a seven and that's all I kind of find that a little sweet spot right there and then I'll take this little line and just drag it over see that noise in there now watch I'll drag it back over and see that noise clean right up and that's how I determine how to set the remove noise okay and that's it and just click apply and that'll take us back into Photoshop and then we're gonna go ahead and take it into sharpening eye and do the sharpening now for sharpening I'm using the same layer here I'm gonna go ahead and launch topaz sharpen AI and I'll show you how I sharpen it in here and as I was saying earlier I do like sharpen AI because i handhold nice sometimes I get some camera shake or some out-of-focus images okay so let's go back to let's go to the split view here so we can see and on this - I like to take my auto update preview and shut it off and now I'm going to for my workflows take my suppressed noise and shut that off because there's noise reduction in here - but not quite the noise reduction quality that you get in d noisy I so I'm just shutting it off there's no need to double reduce noise and no need for that whatsoever so I'm gonna take my sharpness and take it the whole way down and now I'm gonna turn on auto update and we're just gonna look at our image here and I'm gonna start to bump my sharpness up I'm gonna try all three models first I'm gonna try sharpen let's take it up to about 50% and it'll go ahead and update itself now again the image on the right will be the sharpened the image on the Left will be the unsharpened okay and that looks pretty good let's take the sharpness the whole way up to 100% one thing about this product you will never get halos or anything so you can be very aggressive with it okay and that looks really good there so and I would probably back it off a little bit maybe somewhere right around like like here 86% but let me go ahead and take the sharpness off again and let's put on stabilized and see if there was any camera shaker and the only way I can tell there's camera shake is try this turn the sharpen this up a little bit me thirty and see if the image gets improved at all this takes a little longer to generate the preview because it's doing more calculations to figure out if there's any camera movement and it will correct it yeah and if you notice in here it looks a little funky right in here okay so I can tell there's no camera shaking here if there was that would look really great let's try it on focus if it was a soft focus issue again I'm on thirty percent again now again it has to do some calculations there so it'll take a little bit of extra time to generate this preview and this is the only way I can determine now that looks a little bit sharper I gotta say let's compare to the sharpen mode right here it's it's gonna be at thirty percent so we'll just compare these two their sharpen and here's focus so again here's sharpen a little bit softer here's focus so actually I think the focus is doing a good job let's be a little more aggressive let's bump it up to like 57 and let it re redo itself again yeah that looks really really good so I think I'm happy with that no halos everything looks really good it's super sharp now let's compare the before and after there's a before and there's the after see the extra sharpening in there but it does a beautiful job I'm just gonna go ahead and click apply and we're gonna be good to go and we're back in Photoshop now I'm just examining my image like this little piece of brush right here I don't like it I think I want to get rid of it and there's a little bit of grass over here in this little dark spot here let's go ahead and get another blank pixel there and put it right above layer one and I'm gonna get my Healing Brush that's Jays shortcut key and this Healing Brush is great I'm just gonna get rid of this a little bit at a time I find that works best if you don't get too crazy at once let's just keep you know just painting over it and you know in a few seconds everything gonna be good if you got a repeating pattern go over it again okay there's a repeating pattern right there let's get rid of it let's get rid of that one too okay right there that looks good this little black spot right here a dark spot let's get rid of that it's a little bit of grass I want to get rid of that and that right there you know let's clean it up just a little bit and I think that looks pretty good so let's click this layer to off so here's with that brush in there and here's without it I think it's an improvement okay now we just have to decide where we're going next with this okay after looking at this image I'm thinking let's replace the sky I think a sky replacement would look nice give us a little bit of clouds in here I think it would improve the image so let's pull this whole image together and stamp it above layer to that shift option alt or command E to stamp that all together let's come up here to filter and let's go to topaz labs mask' I wheeze mask AI to replace the sky it's simple sky to replace I'm not going to spend a lot of time here but because I've had I have other videos in the past showing you how to replace skies this is going to be very simple we're just going to come up here to auto detects guy give it a click and look at that it finds the sky immediately with our try map here mask AI mode AI or contrast AI for more complicated skies contrast for simple skies this is a simple one so we use contrast click compute mask and there it is it looks perfect let's go to a single image right here now I want to replace the sky right inside of mask AI so let's come up here to where in the little apples right here and click keep and you can see there's the sky cut out let's come over to background and go to image and I have and click on upload images and I have some sky images that I can use here I got some free sky images from Mac fun software a while back and when I bought one of my upgrades of luminar and it's in this picture set one right here and I of it right here there's ask I have in mind in the blue skies collection here and I think it is where is it this guy right here someone that double-click that and there's that let me make my image a little smaller now all we have to do is click on transform and then we could transform the sizes we can move it up and you'll notice you also have maintain aspect ratio if you click this off you can move the sides independently of the top and bottom okay so if you leave the maintain aspect ratio on it's going to affect its the aspect ratio won't change is what I'm trying to say so let's just move this up let's make this a little bit taller here in something like that just think it rid of snot that boring just blue background I think something like that looks good and then just click transform here again now you'll notice we have our try map again let's make this a little larger here click this Apple right here and go back to keep and there's that sky now we have all these controls here so I think this guy's a little too bright so let's take the exposure and pull the exposure back just a little bit and the sky is we can flip the sky horizontally or vertically we need to but you'll notice the lights coming in from the left and that's the way the lights coming in on this sky so we're in good shape there so let's just pull the exposure back just a little bit just trying to match it up with the scene and that's what I love about mascara all these controls here and I also want to blur that sky just a little bit and right now the blur is on zero no blur I'm just gonna take it up one notch to a point one zero and just add a little bit of blur in that sky right there I think that looks good everything looks great I'm just gonna click apply now when I click apply I have two options composite that would be with the new sky in the image that's the way it would send it back into Photoshop or transparent it would send it back to Photoshop with a layer mask but we want to composite so let's just click on composite and then we'll go right back in the Photoshop and there we go so here's without the sky and here's with the sky so it's a nice replacement I'm happy with that the only thing I think I want to do to this image now because it's a really nice image is just give these hills or these rocks here a little more color just add a little more color to this image and a little more detail to these rocks in the foreground here and we're going to use topaz studio 2 to do that so let's just go ahead and let's just let's just duplicate this background layer command or control J just to duplicate it and let's go to filter and let's go into topaz studio to a couple filters in here and we will be done let's work with the color first come to add filter HSL color tuning I love this filter here let's go to oranges here and let's just pull up the orange saturation and look at that already isn't that great we can get that up pretty much there maybe somewhere right around in there and then we can play with this lightness we can late in that orange or we can darken that orange depending what we want I think I'm gonna leave it right where it is maybe just a little extra saturation in there I really like that and if you left-click to canvas here you can see the before and after but already look at that really nice even on this sand down in here I like that and let's also go with red there's some red and see the little diagonal lines in there that lets you know where those colors are sitting so let's click on red and on the red I think I might just bump up the red saturation here and see what we get see that it's full it's nice - right adding that little bit of extra color in there and then we could take this red lightness let's see what happens if we lighten that right up a little bit yeah we can lighten that up just a little bit there and again let's look at the before and the after but look at that little bit of extra color just with the HSL color tuning and then if we wanted to play with the blue if we want a little more blue in there we could come to saturation on the blues and let's just turn up the blue a little bit and see if we want a little more well that's way too much Dave let's back that off yeah maybe just maybe just a little extra blue saturation in there I think that looks pretty good let's left-click the canvas before and after hey very nice results I'm really happy with that and then the last thing I want to do is add a little bit of detail to these foreground rocks right in here and here not in the shadow areas but this little area right in here so one of my favorite fielders here add filter and that's precision detail and this is more I'm using this for a localized sharpening and so I'm just gonna leave it on overall and I'm gonna zoom in a little bit so we can really see the rocks here and let's take the overall small detail and we can start to bump that up okay see that right in there that's just dealing with the small details maybe somewhere right around there looks pretty good and let's try medium detail bump that up a little bit maybe even a little bit more just a again I'm only worried about the front rocks here and I'm not gonna touch the large detail let's zoom back out and now what I'm gonna do now that's way too much and it's over the whole image so what I'm gonna do is go to the layer mask your favorite friend and any piece of software really let's go ahead and come to these three dots invert the layer mask let's get a brush and take the transparency the whole way up to one so we get a white paint swatch right here let's adjust our radius size make it a fairly decent size I have Edgware on and what I want to do is just paint it on this foreground rock here there's probably a technical name for this but I'm just gonna go with rock because we all know what rock means and even in the light area over to here like so and there see that and now we're just gonna add a little bit well the same amount actually to this area back in the light back here and this area right in here but we have that edge aware which is gonna hug the edges nicely just right in there I'm gonna keep off the sand I want my sand to say nice and soft okay so there we go so let's up let's turn this layer off and now let's turn it back on that looks cool and if we feel we went too far just click on precision detail and take the opacity and then just ease it off a little bit okay just maybe something like that now let's click the eyeball here's the before and here's the after just adding a little bit of emphasis to these foreground rocks okay and we added that nice color to the sky so let's left-click the canvas and see the entire change here's the before nice but kind of lacking color and detail on those rocks and now after and I'm liking that all we have to do is click accept that'll send us right back into Photoshop and now if we option click the first layer background layer here's the before okay and here's the after and I'm really happy with these results this image from Zion National Park I've never been there Thank You Daniel very much for letting me edit your image and show this edit to my YouTube audience so thank you for that if you enjoyed this tutorial today please give it a like and share it with your friends if you're not yet a subscriber to my channel please subscribe and click that bill notification icon and then every time I upload a new tutorial you'll be notified about it and will don't forget to check out Daniels website he has a lot of really cool images on there I'm linking it in the description below so you can click on that and go check out Daniels work well thank you very much for joining me today in the joy of editing with Dave Kelly I'll see you all right here next time but a editing [Music] [Music]

Channel: The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly

Views: 1,200

Keywords: Topaz, Topaz Labs, Photoshop, Lightroom, Topaz Studio 2, Topaz Studio, Topaz Mask Ai, Mask Ai, Ai, Sky Replacement, Photography, Tutorial, Photography Tutorial, Creative Edit, Creative Editing, Photo Editing

Id: 3AB_MJYQM-0

Length: 21min 12sec (1272 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020