This week I’m sharing a full start to finish tutorial with you where the weather got very dramatic and created some interesting light and shooting opportunities. We’ll use Lightroom and Photoshop to enhance the sky, add some light to the photo as well as create some depth and dimension in the photo.
LIGHTROOM USERS: The tutorial below is done in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. But for those of you that use Lightroom (not Classic), I also created a Lightroom / Photoshop version that you can find under this version. Thanks!
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I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Matt I want to learn PS which is your course for beginners to learn all the basics.
Thanks.
Mickey.
Thank you Matt. Enjoyed your tutorial. Have completely transitioned to LR since I purchased your course a few weeks ago. Love the ability to simply go to my browser to deal with photos in the program. Much less complicated.
Appreciate your shorter tutorials also!
thanks Matt great information , I still am using LRC . I have learned to us it though your books and videos. Thanks for explaining LRC still!!
Great video, I learned a lot. Thank you. I have one question. How did you import your own sky’s on to PS 2024?
You say you offer othe video but didn’t mention were to order them
Click the link in the post.
There is no link!
Hi. Directly above the video is a link that says “Find out more…”.
Great review! Great pointers…..
Thanks for sharing
Hi Matt, great instruction thank you. I am a LR Classic user and intend to stay that way, I know LR now has a local option but still doesn’t do it for me. I like to be in full control of my images including backups.
Thanks, Matt. So glad I watched this video. Have had so many photos that could be improved by sky replacement, so will have some fun with it, even though it feels like a big cheat. 🙂
Great video. This is my year to do some editing of my photos and this is a great intro. It was great seeing how you used both programs to make adjustments.
Thanks for the Video, Matt. I have a question regarding saving from PS back into LR. When I send an image to PS from Lightroom, edit it and then select file save, the image goes into a temporary edits file in the LR Library folder. It does not show up in LR. The only way I can get the image to save properly into Lightroom is to select File Save As and then navigate to the correct folder. Do I have some setting incorrect?
Hi Donna. Save and Close it and it should work fine.
Thank you, Matt. That worked. I knew I was missing something.
Very interesting and different from my editing process. Thanks Matt
Very inspiring video. Enjoyed it very much.
Thanks Matt
One of your best and that’s really saying something positive.
Matt,
You make your tutorials so easy to follow and I have certainly learned a lot when it comes to using lightroom and photoshop tools when it comes to editing my photograps.
Thank you.
Yet another excellent tutorial
Enjoyed the new before and after – nice update to the no light no problem series with use of masking tools.
One thing I did not fully understand – You went to PS, used eye dropper to select spot in bright rea of mountains, then sowed what dehaze and clarity sliders would do. I’m assuming the eye dropper selection limited the range of tones being adjusted. Not sure if that is correct – Please explain what effect eye dropper select had on the next adjustments.
Thanks
Sonny
Hi. That was just to demo the eyedropper targeting a specific color so you could see how those adjustments were affecting it. The eyedropper doesn’t actually have any impact on editing the photo.
Nice edit and the sky replacement was really cool. Enjoyed this video and learned some useful editing techniques as well. ????
Lightroom or classic
Please explain the differences. Which one is easier to keep track of my photos?
My Camera Raw is up to date, but it doesn’t include lens corrections.
In the email you emphasize that you use lightroom classic but in a previous video you say you use lightroom exclusively. Pleasr clear up the confusion.
Hi James. Most people use LR Classic so that’s why I did the video in Classic. I personally use Lightroom now, and I know others do (but a smaller number) so I did that video as well. Thanks.
Hi Matt,
I picked up a couple of moves you made in the video, thank you! However, when I use Sky Replacement, I have learned, from experience that sometimes the selected sky overlaps a lighter area the image, such as white painted wood or snow. To alleviate this in Photoshop, the first thing I do is to select Sky in the Select header. The line of “marching ants” define the sky vs the subject, and if at first it is not what I want, I do it again. After this short exercise, Sky Replacement observes the pre defined area and there is no spill over onto the light areas of the subject. To finish, and before Saving, I return to the Select header and hit Deselect.
Very nice.
Helpful, as usual. I’m just surprised you used LRCC when you just promoted LR as your preference. You may have made this a while back?
My bad! I didn’t read down to the bottom.
Thank you, Matt! Educational as always.
Hi Matt, these show and tell videos are such a compliment to your courses. These are a big reason why I purchase most of your courses, I hope to see more of the show and tell’s. Thanks so much.
Nice work Matt. I always enjoy and learn so much from you. Must be a chilly down there in Florida – the white sweatshirt over the T.
Woke up this morning to 39 degrees! 🙂
Beautiful!
Really appreciated Matt
Nice! I like this “what to do” better than the “ how to do” courses. Embarrassingly I am “enrolled “ in No Light no Problem but it shows 0% complete. I think (hope) just never checked the complete button.