Hi there! I was editing some photos this week and came across a technique that I use often, but realized I hadn’t done a tutorial on it.
It’s generally something I use when I have an area of good light in my photos and I want to make it even better by drawing more attention to it. It’s quick, easy and works in any Adobe raw editor. Enjoy!
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.
Thank you!
Matt I think this pace of your tutorials is perfect. Thank you.
Great video, Matt. I tried the technique on a portrait of a green heron, and I think it improved the image substantially
Thanks Matt,
Why didn’t you just choose the radial gradient mask to start with? And save doing the first two steps.
Great video! It gave me some ideas for using the intersect mask, which I’ve never used.
Love this, thank you. Clear and instructive.
I always learn something new from your tutorials. This is a good one.
I don’t understand the need for the intersect mask in the first example. Why wouldn’t just a radial mask take care of it for you. Thanks as always for the tutorial.
Hi. Intersect worked better for the shape of mask I was trying to create. Thanks.
Nice video, I learned how to use the intersect function, which I didn’t really understand before. I think you kind of contradicted yourself when you said the you remembered the light coming around the canyon as the thing that impressed you, but your final photo just added more light to that portion of the photo. Is that really what you remembered it looking like? It seemed way too dark for me, I would have brought out the right side of the cliffs a little more. Same with the second photo, the tops of the mountains were all that was left, but I would have added a little more light to the foreground because I’m sure that when you were there, there was more light on the foreground. Just my opinion, thanks for your continued great instructional work.
That radial gradient worked like a dream. Loved the sky subtraction to remove the halo.
Glad you liked it. Thanks!
You correctly pointed out that the eye is drawn to high contrast areas. I know you’re there in the frame, I can hear you talking, but I don’t see much except the high contrast grid of circles on the back of your monitor.
Thanks for another useful tutorial. 🙂
Well the good news is that you missed nothing on screen if you just stared at those circles, as nothing else important was happening. 🙂
Brillliant! I hadn’t heard about either the landscape filter or the intersect tool. I’m sure this will come in handy.