PhotoSerge – Retouching Master Class

Course Overview

This course covers everything from mastering the black & white workflow, getting the best results with your raw files before making them into panoramas, adding drama to photos, correctly exposing highlights and recovering drama without too much of the “HDR look”, stylizing photos, bringing life to dull photos, shooting dramatic foggy photos, shooting straight into a sunset, selective clarity enhancements, how to get the best out of your night photos, recovering boring skies and much, much more.

Lessons: Part 1

• Dramatic Black & Whites
  Mastering my full workflow for dramatic black & white photos in Lightroom
• RAW Files
  How to get the best out of your raw files before you make them into panoramas
• Exposing for Highlights
  How to correctly expose for the highlights and recover drama without having too much of an “HDR look”
• Stylization
  Stylizing boring color photos
• Bringing Life to Sunrise
  Bringing to life a dull sunrise photo
• Drama & Fog
  Expanding on dramatic & foggy photos
• Retouch Direct Sunset
  Retouching a sunset photo shot right into the lens

Lessons: Part 2

• Night Photos
  How to get the best out of a night photo
• Fixing Flat Skies
  How to get drama when you have just a flat blue sky
• Selective Clarity & Composition
  Understanding composition and using selective clarity
• Panorama Basics
  Making a panorama and correcting serious distortion problems.
• Speeding Up Retouching
  How to speed up your retouching process by using synchronization.
• Creative with Boring Colors
  How to get creative when the original colors are boring.
• Contrast & Colors
  Playing around with contrast in cool and warm colors.

Lessons: Part 3

• Middle-of-the-Night Drama
  Making a middle-of-the-night drama photo.
• Black & White Process for Drama
  One of my favorite black and white conversion process for super drama.
• Recovering Lost Color Information
  Selective clarity and how to recover lost color information and rules of composition.
• Color Long Exposures
  Going color with long exposures photos and getting rid of the long exposure color cast.
• Guiding the Eyes of the Viewer
  Retouching a photo after sunset and guiding the eyes of the viewer.
• Retouching when No White Balance Fits
  Retouching a photo taken in the middle of the night and what to do when no basic white balance settings fit.

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