In this video we’ll use one of my favorite techniques in Photoshop for adding a little bit of size and scale to areas of your photo, especially wide angle landscapes photography where big elements can tend to look smaller.
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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 guess I had bookmarked it after all, this is the tutorial I was referring to. Since I tend to take a lot of mountain shots, this is a really cool idea?
Jeff Frank
Awesome! Thanks Matt!
Thanks Matt for this simple and potentially very useful “trick”.
Thank you so much. it was very informative.
You make it look so easy and achievable
Great instruction. Love going over it more than once for sure.
Thanks for another great video, Matt. For me seeing the steps over and over on 5 examples really helps to remember when I get in front of my computer
WOW, great tip! Thanks Matt
Thanks Matt. This is going to change my wide angle landscape wya for the better.
This is one of the most useful tips I have seen in a while. I do a lot of wide angle landscapes, and this will help a lot.
Thanks, Matt! this is great!
This is really good
Terrific! Love this technique!
Matt,
I love this technique. Just used it on a recent image I took in Maine of some fishing shacks at sunset. The shacks were a little distant and small in the original and now they are much more of a focus in the pic. Thanks for the great tip.
Awesome, thanks Matt
Great work Matt. Thanks for doing several images. By the end of the video I had the steps down pat. Didn’t have to keep referring back to the video.
Great tip and photo. But about the No Shift Key Thing: FAIL ADOBE. You don’t change something that’s been one way for ages. In fact it makes more sense to have shift for a mode to scale proportionally. The function is called Free Transform, not Scale Transform. This change is an egregious change by Adobe which clearly does not understand their users. I have learned of a way to revert the behavior back to the legacy but Adobe should empower it’s users with preferences. A lot of people, me included, have lost valuable time trying to figure out this clusterfck.
No way! It took me a week or two to get used to it and now I would never go back!!! Good move Adobe!
Love the videos Matt
Thanks I will try this with my photos.
Great Session.
I can see where it is available to be used on my recent trip.
Thank you Matt.
Thanks, Matt, for a very useful tutorial. The only thing that you might have included is that if you modify the trees, you also have to do it on the reflectione and watch the clouds. In your image the cloud on the top are connected to the trees and in the reflection they are not. I know you know it, but some of your audience might not. It’s a detail, but it can be important.
Hey Matt,
Awesome Tutorial as always … you continue to give me more and more tools to use!! By the way, why did you use the free transform tool instead of making using making the selection a smart object? Wouldn’t you use the smart object for keep quality of photo?
Thanks again,
Dennis
Hi Dennis. A smart object doesn’t give what I did any more quality than not using one. Either way you’re enlarging it and it won’t be any better with a SO. Thx
Matt, Your tips are always great and presented in such a straightforward way. Thanks for helping us improve our images.
Great video! I love it! Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff love it
Good stuff, Matt. Been following from the beginning. Love these tips. Bookmarked them all.
TERRIFIC!!! Will use this immediately. So useful. Thank you very much.
Thank you Matt. Wonderful tips (as always!)
Great idea. I have lots and lots and lots of pictures that this would be great with. I really love to use a wide-angle, but it really flattens out the pictures.
Thanks so much Matt. I really appreciate these tips and especially when you post videos about updates in PS and LR.
This is an amazingly useful trick. Really helps to bring back life into some of those disappointing wide-angle shots which seem to have lost the level of scale and grandeur that our eyes and mind perceive when taking the shot. This has got to be amongst the best tips I’ve ever seen.Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
Thanks, Matt. Really useful and helpful stuff.
Very helpful. Thanks Matt
Great tip Matt – Thanks! I’ve been disappointed by many of my wide angle shots that seemed to lose the majesty of the place. Now I look forward to rescaling them. I always enjoy your tips & workshops.
Thank you, Matt! What a great technique—thanks for “unlocking” the secret!!
Muchas gracias por tus enseñanzas.-Matt.
Thanks, Matt. Simple technique that makes a dramatic difference in the perception of the image!
Great video. Can’t wait to try this on some of my photos.
My dear Matt, I used your technique in several photos and I was astonished! Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. It was not without reason that I bought your sensational Lightroom course in video. Sua didactic and calm are stimulating. Hugs
Thanks Matt. Great ideas and refresher for using the selection and free transform options.
I will definitely try this on some of my images, Thanks Matt.
This is a great trick. Can the same thing be done using ON1 (I don’t have Photoshop)?
Hi Bill. Kind of, but not the same way. I actually have a big ON1 Landscape Editing course coming out in a couple of weeks and I’m working on including this. Thanks!
You’re still the best teacher because your tips / training (because of repetitive examples) becomes easily recalled in our brains!! Thank you!
Great knowledge and such an easy manner in how you teach Matt. Thank you
simple easy to understand teaching mode
thanks Matt! easy and effective!