Hello everybody, welcome to Adobe Rookie!
My channel aims to help beginners learn
how to use some of Adobe programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition. And so for the tutorial today I would
like to show you guys how to edit wedding photos in a way that makes it
look a little fairy tale-like. So first of all, you can look at the photo on
screen and this is what I'm gonna show you how to edit. So if you like this
style for your wedding photos or any nature photos then you can continue with
this video. If you don't like this tone, you can go to a different video. And if
you are already a professional, very likely that you're not gonna like my
video because this is aimed for beginners. Let's clear that out of the
way. And now for the first step of this tutorial,
click on file and then click open. Please choose a photo that has a lot of
nature because the point of this tutorial is to show you how to
manipulate the green in the photo to make it look fairy tale-like, so it has to
have a lot of green from maybe trees, plants or just nature in general. So I'm
gonna pick a wedding photo that I have. This one is the one that I used for the test
so I'm gonna use a different photo which is right next to it so you can see that
the original photo is darker and the nature, the vegetation is yellowish and
not very green as compared to the edited version. First step, you should unlock
this layer. Double click on it and then name it something like basic image.
And then click OK. That should do it.
Next you click on adjustments if you don't see
adjustments in your workspace then go to window and then click on adjustments right here
Click on "curves," which is this icon.
Put a spot on the graph line.
Create another one at the end of the line.
Okay so you have two spots
Then move them up and down, okay? Up and down depending on your photo
you will find a spot that makes the photo look better.
Okay so everyone has a
different case because you don't know what photo you're gonna get so just move
the two points up and down back and forth to fight a spot that is best for your photo
Okay next step is to go back to adjustments, find the selective color
this icon, and click on it, okay? Well this selective color is a very powerful tool
in that adjustments tab. What it does is that you can choose one of the main
colors and manipulate it, okay? So in this photo you can see that there are
definitely white, black, and gray, but besides those very key colors, you also
see a little bit of brown and a lot of green and yellow.
The vest of the groom
which is brownish, orange-ish should belong to the red category and the
nature the grass the trees they should belong to yellows and greens all the
colors in this photo are affected by the last three categories, which are whites,
neutrals, and blacks. So now we're gonna go through each and every single one of
them because we're beginners, so we don't know for sure which category appears in
our photo. So I'll go with red first and what we're gonna do is to use all of the
adjustment bars here and just play around with them because we all have
different photos that we're editing, so we don't know which one will work for us.
So just click on the bar and move the pointer back and forth to see the
difference. For example, I like the groom's vest to be hmm to be a little
orange-ish. I will place it there. Okay this second bar, I can see that if I
move it extensively it would change the colors too much
and I don't like that so I will just move it a little bit to get the
color that I want, right there. After you have changed the pointers on these bars,
move on and choose a different color category. So the next one is yellow.
Also do the same thing: manipulate all of the yellows in this photo by moving the
pointers on the adjustment bars here. So I'll start with cyan
I can see already that if I move cyan all the way to the left, it will make all
of the grass look yellowish which I don't like so I'll move it to the right
okay if you turn off the eye here you can see the original photo, and you
can see that in the original photo, the grass is yellowish and after just like a
tiny adjustment of cyan I already have a much greener shade of
green, which is good. And I'm gonna continue with the other bars on the
yellow bar of yellows. I'm gonna move it all the way to the left and I can already
see the effects taking place. I can already see that the grass is looking
more and more fairytale-like as I'm moving this bar, so this is a very key
bar for this photo, because this photo has too much yellow that the moment you
move the pointer a little bit either to the left or the right side of the yellow
bar under yellows, you can already see a drastic difference. So I'm gonna move it
more to the left side, oh actually all the way to the left because I believe
that this color is what I want to achieve. The black bar, I can see that
this black bar should be moved only a little bit and not too much, okay?
continue on with greens. Okay, I can see that this one doesn't change anything
this one doesn't change anything so I'll move it back to zero
Yellow: nothing. Black: nothing. See, under all of these color categories, there will
be some that are just useless in certain photos because that photo doesn't
contain a lot of that color. And what you're gonna do is to go through all of
them and see which one is useful and which one is not. Now we're on white.
Let's see if it affects the photo a lot. So from my experience, we shouldn't mess
with the first bar a lot. The first bar under the whites is very sensitive, so maybe
just leave it at zero. Same with the second bar. Then the third one, the third
one I think that I want to use a little bit cuz I do want to create a little bit
of yellow in this photo. And then black. Okay something like this, okay? Move on
with neutrals. For some of them you can move all the way to the left or the
right for some others you just move like to plus one plus two or minus three,
minus four maximum, okay? Okay at this point I can already see that the colors
in this photo have changed a lot and I like that. I think that the most
important color for all of the photos would be black. Ok Cyan: you can see that
when I move the cyan bar, like a big part of the photo is being changed in a
very cool way, but I'm not sure if I like that effect so I'm just gonna use a
little bit of that effect and not too much. Next one.
I'm gonna move the final bar, the black one, almost all the way to the right,
because you can see that the groom's shirt and the bride's hair and also a
large part of this photo are affected by black. And I want to use this black bar
to make those elements pop so that the colors are more saturate, let's say.
So right now you kind of already have a photo that looks pretty fairy tale-like
but it's not bright enough. As you can see compared to the edited version, this one
is not bright enough. So what I'm gonna do next is go to brightness and contrast
and see if I can change that. I'll click on that and then I'll increase the
brightness, okay? Increase the brightness. And then now I'm gonna change the
contrast as you can see the more I move the pointer on contrast to the right,
the more the groom and the bride pop. And the more I move it to the left, the more
they blend into the nature. But the thing is if you move the pointer all the way to
the right you don't see the nice sky behind them anymore. You don't see the
sun anymore. And some spots in this photo would be too dark.
So just move it back and forth
So for me I would choose this point.
Then I'll continue to adjust the
brightness back and forth so I'll stop somewhere here, okay?
okay and some of the green in the photo now looks a lot cuter because of the
brightness but at the same time you can see that there are some problems such as
the Sun is not visible anymore so if you turn off all of the extra layers' eyes,
you can see that the Sun used to be there but now it's not anymore. So one of
the ways that you can fix this is to find out which layer is affecting the Sun
You'd want to turn off each and every single extra layer to see which one is
affecting the Sun. And I can see this one doesn't. This one however does, so what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create a vector mask for that layer, okay? And I'm
gonna use this tool, which is brush. Brush right here, okay? And I'm gonna choose a
brush that has feather like this or that, one of them. What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna paint black on the mask and wherever I paint black, that area won't
be affected by the brightness and contrast effect anymore. Also change the
opacity of this brush to something like sixty something and I'm gonna paint
black on the Sun. So now you can see that the Sun is getting more and more visible.
I want the mountains to also be visible so I'm gonna run the brush
through the mountains one time, okay, so that the mountains will become more visible.
So it's got a little bit of Sun and a lot of the mountains.
If you turn off
this layer you can see the difference, right, that the mountains and the Sun are
not affected, but the rest of the photo is affected by the brightness and
contrast effect (or adjustment layer) And you can use the same technique for
whatever else in your photo that you want to keep the same as the original.
Just create a mask and and paint black on it.
So one thing that
I'm still concerned about is the green color is not exactly like how I want it
so I'm gonna go back to the Selective Color layer and then go back to yellows
and see how I can adjust this. So this selective color layer is manipulating
the whole photo (all of the color categories). Now I just want to continue
to manipulate green and I don't want to, you know, manipulate all of the other
colors and make changes to any of the other colors. So I think it's safe to
create a new selective color, right, so that I can continue to enhance the grass
and the trees and not affect any other parts. So I'm going straight to yellows here.
And I'm gonna adjust the yellows category. You can see as I move the
yellow bar all the way to the left, we see more fog but if I move it all the
way to the right then you see more sunshine. And I like the sunshine so I'm
gonna keep a little bit of it, okay? which makes the photo cuter.
Okay so the last thing that I'm not pleased about this photo is the black
area over here. I feel like it's too black. Let's see which layer is affecting that.
So we can see that the first Selective Color layer is affecting
this area of the photo a lot.
Okay. Now now the photo seems cute to me, I think.
That is pretty cute.
For those of you who still want some of the colors to pop
even more, you can go to vibrance and you can adjust the vibrance bar or the
saturation bar
So I'll adjust vibrance first and see how that works out
always test to see how it looks before and after the change. I can see that
this vibrance adjustment layer is only affecting how strong the sunshine is on
the grass, and I'm okay with that. So you can go to color balance and see how you
wanna manipulate all of the colors in the entire photo. And this is not to
manipulate single selective colors but the entire photo, okay?
go back to the selective color here and I still want to continue to manipulate
green which is yellows actually. You may think it's weird but remember the
original photo: The grass in the original photo is actually more yellow than green.
So to manipulate it, you have to use the yellows category and not greens category.
Okay. One thing that I often do to increase the greenness is to double this layer
Double the Selective color layer that is meant for the green manipulation
To do this I will press Ctrl + J. As you can see now we have an extra layer that
is a duplicate of the previous layer.
And you can turn it on and off to see the difference
So for this new layer, I kinda wanna change it a little bit.
So for me, this is good enough. But definitely go back to all of the
adjustment layers and readjust them as you please. For example, I see that the
brightness and contrast on this one is not a hundred percent satisfying to me.
So I'd go back to it and then I would change the contrast and brightness here
just a little bit more to get what I like. Okay, a little of that. Maybe a little of this as well.
Feel free to go back to any of the adjustment layers
and do the work and see what is the best adjustment.
If you have taken a photo with a very good camera like a Canon or
something, very likely that your photo is a little bit too big for almost
everything, unless you want to print it. So I would recommend that you go to
image, and image size and check what is the current image size.
So for me, the current image size is 6000 x 4000 pixels, which is a lot.
If I want to publish this on Facebook the photo will be automatically
downsized by Facebook, which makes the photo look not as good anymore.
So I would prefer for it to be something smaller. Or for videos for example,
I would like to set it at maximum 1920x1280, okay?
Okay, so that's good. And I'm gonna click okay to resize it. And then, I'm going to
file and save as. You should say it as JPEG. For me, sometimes because I want to
publish it on Facebook with text, (and when you publish something with text,
the text often comes out a little cheesy if you save it as JPEG),
so if you have text on your photo, I would recommend saving it as PNG. But if
you don't, like in my case, then just save it as JPEG. And I will just click OK here,
unless you want to change the quality of it, but I would like to keep it at maxium.
Okay that's a wrap for today and feel free to leave comments below
I look forward to speaking to you guys in my upcoming videos.
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