Unique Things you Learn in this Video

✔️ Aligning layers by hand using the Difference Blending Mode.

✔️ Selecting the best parts of different images shot in rapid succession: birds, changes in light, etc.

✔️ Leading the eye with darkness and light.

✔️ Cloud dodging and reflected light dodging.

✔️ Luminosity Selections (RGB Channels and Tony Kuyper’s luminosity masks).

✔️ Post-Processing for a dramatic film-look, straight from the fantasy films of Peter Jackson set in Middle-Earth.

✔️ Matte Painting - the technique actually used in those films to create backgrounds.

✔️ Alternatively use Skylum Luminar to create those light effects.

✔️ Panorama Stitching with a back-up plan.

✔️ Repairing slightly out-of-focus mountains.

If you’ve ever used a telephoto lens, you’ll know that the images from afar look washed out, without dramatic contrast. That’s all post-processing. But you will also notice things that you can barely make out with the naked eye. Birds flying past, snow drifts blowing over the peaks and light hitting each individual rock a little differently, causing the snow-capped mountains to shine like diamonds. That’s all there, you just have to learn how to bring that out.

This comprehensive video tutorial aims to teach you both the drama and the detail when we zoom in on those mountains caught in swirling clouds.

Watch me edit “Freedom Spires”, "Still for a Moment" and the panorama "Gleam of Dawn" - start to finish. That’s right. Three full-length processing videos! During this 3,5+ hour long silent editing video, you will learn new techniques such as Matte Painting, Color Grading and Creating a Film Look, that you can use in any of your photos to make it look like a screenshot from your favorite movie. Additionally, you will see how you can repair a panorama gone wrong if one image is not quite sharp, and all the special effects like Soft Glow, Orton and Diffuse Light created in both Photoshop AND Skylum Luminar. If you’re an intermediate or seasoned digital photographer, then there are Channel Selection techniques and Luminosity Masking tips in here as well. Lastly, you will learn how to make your images look fantastic for the web.

What’s Included in this Video?

⭐ These three videos contain more than 3,5 hours’ worth of processing together, one of my biggest Photoshop tutorial ever recorded!

⭐ Three PSD-files (resized) of “Freedom Spires”, “Still for a Moment” and “Gleam of Dawn” with every adjustment still present.

⭐ Read-me file with photography tips and links to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.