Monumental Trees
Striking ancient trees with lots of personality, but the conditions suck. Harsh light, distracting elements and lack of any color harmony is leaving your photo lackluster. Sound familiar? This processing video helps you turn a nothing-burger into a color graded magic. Highly recommended if you like fantasy films like me.
In this course
The Elder
Catch the Spirit
Monumental Trees
Learn to process wide-angle forest photos shot in harsh daylight and convert them to atmospheric images in two different approaches. This tutorial, like any of my Photoshop tutorials can be followed along starting in Lightroom or Camera Raw.
These moody forest shots weren’t that moody to begin with! Learn how to create mystical landscape art in broad daylight with this full-length video tutorial. Two very different approaches are shown in each part of this video. In one, we start in Lightroom and in the other we start in Camera Raw and I show you that they their raw conversion engine is the same! In both cases, we move into Photoshop to see the magic happen.
Watch me edit both “The Elder” and "Catch the Spirit" - start to finish. During this 2+ hour long silent editing video, you will learn various visual effects such as Soft Glow, Orton and Color Grading, aside from a host of stuff like warping, focus stacking by hand and dodging that will make your forest images sing.
Resized PSDs are included for all images. All videos are fully narrated and annotated/subtitled (English only) to explain what’s going on.
What you will learn in this tutorial
✔️ Working a single image & focus stacking multiple frames
✔️ Simultaneous Raw pre-processing
✔️ Aligning and blending multiple exposures
✔️ Initial editing vs. actual post-processing
✔️ Highlight recovery
✔️ Creative Controlled Warping
✔️ Cloning and sensor dust removal
✔️ Luminosity Processing
✔️ Fine tuning color adjustments
✔️ Using Camera Raw Filter to full effect
✔️ Using Color Efex Pro for forests
✔️ Adding sunlight
✔️ Orton effect creation and control
✔️ Color dodging
✔️ Final adjustments
✔️Handling HDR, direct sunlight and over-exposed skies and blending exposures in the forest (and their necessity).
✔️Cinematic color grading
✔️ Sharpening and Exporting for the Web to keep the colors exactly the same as you see it in Photoshop for the whole world.
What’s included in this course
⭐ These two videos contain more than 2,5 hours’ worth of processing in total.
⭐ Two PSD-files (resized) of “Catch the Spirit”, and “The Elder” with every adjustment still present.
⭐ Read-me file linking to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.
⭐ A bunch of ever updated videos that keep up with tools, updates and versioning, to make these videos absolutely timeless.
Specs, how to watch and other fine print
After payment, you will download a PDF document containing links to download the actual videos and files needed to follow along from a private Dropbox link. You don’t need Dropbox, or any other account, it’s just hosted there on mine. There’s additional information in that PDF as well.
Note that this is a Digital Download product. No physical DVD or USB thumb drive is included.
I do not offer refunds on digital products.
Video: H264 MP4, 1080p (full HD). 10fps, variable bitrate
Audio: AAC 48 kHz, 320 kbps stereo
Fully English subtitled by me. Narrated by Michael in English, a professional American voice actor.
Total running time: 2 hours 30 minutes PLUS nearly two hours of additional videos as a free bonus.
Total size of the download: about 4.86 GB.
You can download the files separately, so you don’t have to download one huge file all at once.