Fun when you find new Photo Editing Tools.
As most of you have seen my primary focus is Wildlife, Nature and Landscape photography. If you have been following along you have seen me do portrait, real estate and wedding photos too. I have even dabbled in night and macro photography from time to time.
I keep trying new things to keep things fresh and keep my interests and motivations fresh. I have become a better photographer and photo editor by trying new things. The most recent thing I have done to stretch is a little more robust photo editing.
In photo shop you use layering to build an image. Leaving your base image pure and working off of copies, filter and adjustment layers. I tried to expand on these, since up to this point the majority of my images are of wildlife and I want you to see what I see. Now I am wanting to have you see what I can imagine.
This means I have gone back to my old standby of research, practice and get better. So I took a few old pick to see if I could jazz them up for a lack of a better term. Here is what I have been doing.
First I look at sky replacement to make bland skies look better in photos. Up to this point I had been using Luminar 4 to do my sky replacements. I knew that photoshop had added that function into the software and decided to try it instead. I have to say I like it as much or better than my previous workflow. I think it does a litter better job and since it is in Photoshop itself it works a little faster.
Second I have lookin to more of the native filters in Photoshop and using them more and finding that there are a lot more uses for them than I had been using.
Third and lastly I have purchased a some Kelvin Pimont brushes. These are cool I can paint fog, snow, rain lighting and other stuff right to my photos. These 3 are ones I used some of those new brushes on. Primary the fog brush. Although I did use the lightening brush a bit in that last photo. There can be only one!!!
Now I just need more Ideas to use all these tools on! I also want to thank my son for supporting his old man and being my model.
Until next time.
The Redleg Photographer
