Regardless of the allure and attention grabbing nature of high contrast landscape photos, there are
times when it becomes crucial to prioritize color harmony, ensure that the tints align, and consider
the impact on all the colors when adjusting just one.
Let's practice on this next image.
So on this image here again we want to thank our good friend.
Let me pull it up here Jacob Boris.
So Jacob loaned us this image for you to use in the exercise files.
Now here's before and after.
Here's the original image right here.
And this is what we're going to do work on.
I'm going to come over to edit.
And again edits were your history.
Let's review what we did here.
Of course, we quickly developed the image.
And by develop we use some of the development settings enhance AI which we know is our number one go
to tool and a little structure then the color harmony.
Then from here we'll go through some of the other tools to make to bring out the extra impact on the
image.
All right.
So let's discard it and start from the beginning.
So here we are.
First thing is, I do want to come in to develop role.
And I'm going to bump up the contrast just a bit.
Dow back the highlights.
Now, I know it's a very dark image, so we have to do a little repair.
But I want to do the repair not so much with develop but with enhance I but I do want.
To enrich the black tones and the whites.
And look, already it's starting to take shape.
But just a little bit more.
Now enhance I ready?
Here we go.
So that's really going to bring out the shadows and really make the sky look more pleasing.
All right.
Here we have before and after.
So we're off to a great start.
Now that we have that set, let's add a little structure to the scene.
Before we jump into color harmony.
All right.
And I'm going to boost it just a little bit.
All right.
Good.
So now I have that set.
Now let's tackle the the colors.
So I'm going to jump down to the professional tools and let me hide these for you.
There we go.
So here are the professional tools.
We're going to click on color Harmony.
Now this is going to be so tempting just to come in here with brilliance.
Oh look at that.
And just start playing with these colors.
But look it looks totally fake.
The greens are fine, but look what it's doing up here.
So let's come back again.
And I do want to increase the brilliance.
And now the warmth.
If I go to the left, it'll be more blue.
To the right, it'll.
It'll bring out some more of the yellows or the gold tones.
So I'm going to right about here.
And that's looking good.
Now, what's really going to help us is this color contrast.
So I'm going to give it a generous amount first and then we can adjust it later.
And here's how the you.
Along with the amount or the strength is it will affect each of the colors.
So right now I love.
How the Greens are looking.
This right here is what I'm looking for.
I really want to get that to be a little richer.
To read about.
There.
That looks good.
Let's check it out.
Before.
After.
Yeah, that's a little overboard.
So we're going to dial back the brilliance a bit.
And the warmth.
Let's check it again.
I'm just getting there now.
Split color.
Warmth.
Here, watch.
Let's go to an extreme.
As you can see what it's actually doing.
If I go to the left.
And to the right.
So it's taken the warm tones and it's splitting it.
It's taking the warm colors and it's making them a little a little cooler or a little warmer.
And now from here, the cool colors.
We're going to adjust.
Look at that.
Right about here.
That's looking good.
And again before.
After.
Could I really like how the greens are looking?
The sky were not done with yet.
Now just because we have all these sliders doesn't mean we have to use all of them.
I just want to give you an example of what we're doing with them now here with the color balance, I'm
not going to worry about the shadows or the midtones.
It's the highlights I'm a little concerned with here.
Cyan and red.
Now notice are GB cyan, magenta yellow and K for black.
So here's your Cmyk colors.
Here's your RGB colors.
Here's cyan to red.
Because that's doing.
Here's magenta.
To green.
Good.
I'm going to put that back to the center.
And said, and here's yellow.
Two Blues.
All right.
So let's adjust that right in here.
Cut before.
After he said this right in here.
I said, a little too much yellow.
So let me dial it back a little bit here.
I am there.
There we go.
There before, after, and again.
It's one of these tricks where you're going to have to just adjust it and your eyeballing it.
Before.
After.
Good.
And you could like the green before this.
That's up to you.
From here.
I'm really liking what it's doing to the sky.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring it out a little bit more right about there, but I'm not
liking what it's doing down here.
So you guessed it mask.
And what we want to do with the mask is we're going to check for the sky.
It found it.
And that's where I want the color harmony to be applied to, because I really I do like the color down
in here.
And we'll leave it as that.
So let's look at it overall before.
After.
And now with the color harmony.
Here's before.
Oh, look how it's really bringing out that sky.
Now that we have that set, let's add a couple more tools.
Now, from here, I want to kind of draw the eye to this area here.
So this is a little too bright.
So we have several tools we can work with.
We could just come over here to develop and do a global change where I bring everything down.
Oh, that looks good.
I love what look what it's doing to the sky in here.
Now we're going to do is take a mask and a radial gradient.
And let's just apply it.
Here.
So now when I do this notice it's the effect is going to be applied to this area.
Well that's not what I want.
I want it to be the inverse.
So let's check what it does.
We'll look at that.
You see what I just did there.
So again here's the mask.
I want this tool to be applied to everything but this area.
That's why I selected it and then hit inverse.
All right.
And take the brush tool.
And from here, I just want to tidy this up just a little bit.
And I'm going to paint back in the mask just around here.
There we go.
And let's hide the mask.
That's it.
Once again.
There.
That looks good.
Now the eye is drawn to this area here.
And I want to make sure that that's that's right there.
All right.
And since we're dealing with non-destructive editing, I can still dial this back a bit right about
there.
And watch the highlights.
That's it.
And enrich the shadows.
Where we go.
So before.
After.
There was a little too much glow going on right here.
So let's take the brush.
And we're going to paint back in.
Some of the effect.
Fact, I'm with a very low opacity.
There we go.
Now I got rid of that that halo effect and that looks really good.
Let's just finish it off and see if structure will make a difference.
I'm.
Look at that.
It does.
She'll dial it back just a bit.
For.
After.
That's looking really good.
All right.
Now, at this point, we could decide what do we do?
We want to continue, let's say, with a vignette.
And what a vignette is going to do for us is a vignette is going to help us.
Let's do it right about in here.
Let's see.
It's going to help us by darkening the edges.
That's it.
Let's feather it.
And that's a little inner light.
Before.
After.
Yeah.
Look.
Look how that just jumps right back where we're looking for.
Now, this area here is still bothering me.
Just a touch.
So let's come back over here to edit.
And we know that that was underdeveloped.
Right there was underdeveloped mask brush.
And I do want to paint a little bit more around.
And let's see.
Okay, that's much better.
Now I don't have that glow just jumping right out at me.
And that looks pretty good right there.
Now that we covered contrast and color harmony, let's prepare for the next lesson.
We'll dive into another advanced tool Dodge and burn.
I'll see you at the next lesson.