10 Essential Post-Processing Techniques That Every Landscape Photographer Needs to Know
Building on his previous <a href="https://members.kelbyone.com/course/skelby_10_essential_tips_landscape/">landscape photography class</a>, Scott Kelby uses the photos he captured at Cannon Beach to teach you 10 essential post-processing techniques every landscape photographer should know. Starting from a simple example to get oriented to the tools, Scott takes you step-by-step through his Lightroom and Photoshop workflow to learn increasingly more advanced techniques. In this class you’ll learn how to evaluate each photo before processing, different ways to boost contrast, how to stitch multiple frames into a panorama, how to process realistic looking HDR images, how to sharpen to bring out detail, how to enhance washed out skies, and so much more! Be sure to watch the landscape photography class first so that you can see the process through from capture to finish!
Release Date: 2016-07-27
Lessons
Introduction
Join Scott as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 1 mins 12 seconds
Getting in a Good Starting Place
Before you start moving sliders it can be helpful to step back and evaluate the image. From there you can start making adjustments to get the image in a good starting place.
Duration: 11 mins 7 seconds
Boosting Contrast
Photos can start pretty flat looking in Lightroom and Camera Raw, and a good next step is to deal with increasing contrast using one of the available tools.
Duration: 8 mins 29 seconds
Panorama: Part 1
Stitching panoramas is completely done by Lightroom (or Photoshop), and from there we can focus on processing the resulting image.
Duration: 10 mins 38 seconds
Panorama: Part 2
Now that the pano is stitched and empty areas filled, Scott moves through the steps to complete the processing of the final image.
Duration: 17 mins 31 seconds
Sharpening
Landscape images can always benefit from additional sharpening to finish the image.
Duration: 4 mins 26 seconds
HDR Processing
High dynamic images can be created and processed right inside of Lightroom, and the results can even be passed on to plugins for finishing.
Duration: 12 mins 39 seconds
Fixing Washed Out Skies
Sometimes our skies leave a lot to be desired. You can greatly improve the sky using an advanced technique called luminosity masks, and even create an action to automate the process.
Duration: 17 mins 59 seconds
From Start to Finish
After covering all of the basic techniques, Scott takes a single image from start to finish.
Duration: 14 mins 39 seconds
Conclusion
Scott wraps up the class with some closing thoughts.
Duration: 0 mins 32 seconds