CJ4: How To Edit A Beautiful Landscape in Photoshop & Use Luminosity Masks to Blend Exposures
Today we’ll go through a full workflow and edit a beautiful landscape photo in Photoshop. Thank you to Tom Leeson for sending me the exposures for this week’s Challenge Jimmy.
We’ll cover a number of different techniques in this tutorial. We learn how to deepen our colours naturally, how to recover important highlights with luminosity masks, the importance of framing our image, and pushing the viewer’s eye to an area of interest.
On top of this we’ll dodge and burn warmth to previously flat areas of the scene, pull out lovely details, and create a dynamic vignette.
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This is a fantastic tutorial. I absolutely love this series. I’ve learned more from the ‘Challenge Jimmy’ tutorials than from any other tutorial out there. For me, understanding the basics is easy, but applying those basics to real-world, challenging images can be a bit difficult. Excellent tutorial, Jimmy!
thank you jimmy , why you don’t post original Raw files for trying
Hi there,
The files are sent to me by other photographers. I’m afraid I don’t have permission to share them publicly.
Thanks
Jimmy
hey jimmy , could you please take request from photographer to use it for education only , not for commercial purposes??? thank you
How do you open the images as a stack from ACR?
Hey Scott, I’m afraid it isn’t possible. We have to open the separately and then drag our open images into one window. However, it is possible from Lightroom.
Thanks for your response. Since I wrote this, I found the staking feature in Raya Pro.
Great tutorial !!! Thank you.
great video thanks
Absolutely love the end result! Sometimes I find it hard to blend images involving foliage because of movement (when the wind is strong).
Superbe
Thanks Jimmy, I really liked this tutorial! Please keep them coming. My biggest challenge has been the post processing. Meaning to say that I have come across scenes and had a vision but have not had the knowledge to make that vision come alive in Photoshop. I have taken similar images as this and couldn’t really get what I wanted out of them… Now I have some tools to use. Cheers!
HI JIMMY,
I am a photographer from Switzerland and I have tried to get your easy panels several times. . . . .I gave my email address and nothing ever came . . . .I have done this at least 3 time in different days . . . .and nothing came by mail. . . .but your news and advertising they came. . . .it is a kind of way just to get the emails of people for pubblicity reasons?
Thank You for your videos which are fantastic but please I need your answer on the easy panels
Hi there,
Sorry about the problem. I’m not sure why the email isn’t getting through. Could you please message me via the contact form on this site and I will send you the download.
Thanks
Jimmy
Thanks, great tutorial!