How I create PHOTOS with a PAINTERLY look - More than a Lightroom tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- My painterly woodland images are made not only with the right conditions, but also by using the right Lightroom and Photoshop editing techniques. Watch as I talk through both.
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Hi Nigel, I love this painterly look and have been editing my landscapes like this for a few months. It’s weird though how some people just can’t see the beauty in this kind of image, my local camera club don’t like it even though I am so pleased with how my images look with this kind of editing. It’s disappointing when people don’t appreciate photography as an art form and not just a factual representation of a scene…they don’t know what they are missing 😢
Hi Nigel. I just saw your recent video about taking more time to do the things you enjoy rather than having the feeling of needing to produce videos all the time. I have a couple of RUclips friends who really suffered the burnout of doing this so it's great you are putting yourself first. I, like many others will always be here to watch your videos regardless ;) Reason why I commented on this one is that vides like this one here, specifically have been such an amazing help in me developing my landscape photography. Woodland is a hard art to master and with your help this last couple of years I feel I have come on a long way. So a HUGE THANKYOU from me! Wishing you my very best and look forward to hopefully bumping into you in a foggy woodland again some day. Cheers!
This is an educational masterpiece. I‘m following your channel for quite a while and still you’ve got new insights to share.
Briliant Nigel. Well done and well taught.
I was just about to look up some lightroom tutorials, perfect timing!
A great video Nigel! Thanks so much for sharing some of your secrets. The Intersecting with tools and luminance on local areas I found especially useful👍👍👍
Superb tutorial on Lightroom (and Photoshop). One of the best I've viewed. Made loads of notes. Now I have to put it all into practice! I'd reckon I'll be returning to this video several times for a refresher.
Thank you for helping me on my photography journey Nigel. You are a true artist and excellent instructor. My photography has come on in leaps & bounds in large part to your excellent videos. Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks for this - quite literally - very illuminating video! Being an absolute dunce at Lightroom I always wondered how to get those effects. Looking forward to next week's video on Cornwall.
An excellent demonstration of Lightroom masking.
A truly wonderful and educational video! Thanks again Nigel!
Glad you enjoyed it
Gotta rewatch and rewatch and rewatch….. so very helpful!
Thanks Nigel! Lots of wonderful info here.
This is my favourite of all your editing videos. Absolutely great tips here, but more than that just some insight into what you're looking for and why. Thanks as always!
Brilliant Nigel , many thanks 🙏
I've been watching your videos for a while now, and i really like how you explain things and take your photos, make a story out of them.
Wish you all the best luck, Nigel!
Thanks Nigel! A very densely packed vlog. LOTS of info in here. Can't wait for the next few.
Thank you Nigel for this awesome editing tutorial. I love your woodland photography, and your from work process I can learn a lot.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for those great tips! Can't wait to see your upcoming videos!
This tutorial is one of my favorites. Thanks so much for showing how to use the color and luminosity range. These techniques will be so helpful in editing my photos. I love your work and appreciate all these helpful tutorials.
Intersecting with a brush. A key take-away. Thanks for the tips.
Great video. Super helpful little tips I was not aware you could do.
Your videos help me in more ways than being a better photographer but learn how to appreciate the world and nature. Every video feels like home, with a warm and kind vibe. Thank you so much Mr Danson! Greetings from Chile❣️
Your work in this video has a Thomas Kinkade feel to it. ( no insult implied!)
So often while walking in the woods, I’ll come across a scene that intrigues me with shapes and good leading lines, but once in the computer looks BLAH!
Your processing makes things come alive! ( but not over the top!)
Thank you!!!
Great video Nigel! definitely changed my way of thinking when it comes to editing woodland!
Hi Nigel, good to see you out and about so I'm guessing that that your back is much improved. I'm hoping so. Thanks for sharing your skills and enthusiasm, I now see potential pictures in the woods where I once saw only trees.
Nigel... Thank you... I've struggled in LR and PS, trying to understand intersecting masks, and blend modes, and the way you've described them here, makes a lot of sense to me. I have been working on an Orton style of my own, and really appreciate your explanations here. Massive help!!
Wonderful video thank you ! Great to have a clear step by step approach in how to start the editing process . Certainly looking forward to experimenting and developing editing skills! My husband is an artist and has started using my photos for his own creative ideas. No pressure to succeed!!!!!! 😊🙏👏
Outstanding tutorial and a great demonstration that in editing there are many ways to achieve the same or similar results! You turn what could be almost mediocre scenes if edited incorrectly into something special, a literal magical wonderland of light, colour and atmosphere. Thanks for sharing this with us Nigel, much appreciated.
Great Video, Nigel!
Painterly photos , right up my alley. Intresting that you add contrast at the begining , I do the opposite , remove contrast and then paint it back in with the brush tool , great edits 👍👍.
Excellent video Nigel! Thank you so much 😀. And thanks for the painters - I'll be spending a few hours looking at their work. Liked & subscribed!
Excellent video, gave me some new ideas about better controlling and changing saturation, thank you Nigel.
Brilliant mate, thank you, so much in this tutorial. Looking forward to putting it to use.
What a great explanation, I learned a thing or two. Massive thanks!
Another superb video - thank you Nigel. I love these images and you have a real gift for explaining your editing processes so clearly - I find them so helpful!
Great to see how you transform your images into those beautiful artworks.
Thanks so much - This is exactly what I needed. To me, processing my photos provides as much pleasure as capturing them and I've really struggled to achieve the 'painterly' look. I've already gone back to some of my pictures and created all-new edits.
Most useful video guide I've seen.
Very much admire your work
Good stuff Nigel, enjoyed the video.
I recently purchased the masterclass series, what a significant boost to my photography. Im not even up to the second masterclass yet.
thank you so much, incredibly instructive!!
One of the most helpfull videos I have seen in a long time, thank you!
Thank you so much… I love your work.
An amazing video that I, and I am sure others will watch again and again as it was so helpful and informative. Well done Nigel, and a very big thank you for all your inspiring and interesting video's. Exceptional content, even though I do not use Photoshop or Lightroom it gave me more than enough to be able to apply some of the knowledge to using my Affinity Photo app more. TopMan
This is going to transform my images! Thank you so much for all the knowledge you share
Great tips here, and especially on what intersect does and how to use it, great edits!!
Awesome, awesome editing tips.
Truly great content in this one. This is one I’ll be visiting a few times while I’m editing.
Always spot on !
Great effects and clarity of explanation ... Tony Melbourne, Australia
This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much.
What an absolute brill tutorial , thank you x
Very informative tutorial.
Loved it!
Terrific tutorial; You've brought together alot of things I have been experimenting with. Many thanks.
These editing videos are so good! You are really teaching me innovative ways of using masks, particularly with the intersect function.
Great tips as usual. I've always liked trying to get a painting-like effect on some of my images and these tips will help no end
Thank you for this
Very nice Nigel
Good info here. Mads' video of the lakes is awesome as wsll. 👍🥂
That first tree in the fog you show is Lawrence Field tree. My favourite tree in the peak district. I'm lucky to live 20mins away from there and I'm always out there doing photography
Great video Nigel! And that extra tip using blending mode on Photoshop is incredible. I need to try it for sure! Looking forward to seeing those magical conditions footage in the next few weeks!
Fantastic tutorial, totally immersed . 💪
It is amazing how Lightroom has improved and the creative possibilities that have been added with the last editions. Bravo for your beautiful photographs and thank you very much for your insight: it is very inspiring and moved me to transform and/or fine tune some of my photos to give a more painterly impression. The palette of styles can be very varied: from renaissance, baroque and classical landscape paintings (Giorgione, Carracci, the Flemish, Turner, etc.) to modern art (Monet, Cezanne, pointillism, fauvism, etc). Something that I have been striving to do by playing with light and focus in some of my shootings.
Another excellent video, Nigel! More tools for me to add to my editing workflow, as I progress in this hobby of mine!
Thank you so much for allowing us to watch some of your technique. I'm always going to photoshop because I do like to use the layer mask option to brush in/out but i should really make a bigger effort and practice more in lightroom...cheers fella!
Man, that was soo interesting!
I don't use LR or PS (ART and Affinity Photo instead) but these basic techniques are applicable to all tools that support them. Good content.
Although I use Capture Pro I saw many ways to apply the same type of filters, including deglaze, black, white and many more that Capture Pro naming is fairly similar to Lightroom. Thank you for a very insightful video, as always!
Hi Nigel great informative video is the first image taken in Padley Gorge Derbyshire because it looks so much like to an image I took there it’s such a great location and is that Padley at the end of your video? Thanks Tony.
Folks, we just got a free masterclass in Lightroom.
There were a few Bob Ross moments where I thought "what are you doing?!!!" only to say "ohhhhhh" after! Thank you so much for sharing and well done!
In a word, invaluable. I’ve always tended to get comments that my photos are painterly but have always struggled to understand how some of them ended that way and this post is, quite literally, the missing link. Thank you!
Btw I have cabinet envy and would love to know what print cabinet that is!
I can't remember where I got it from. It is an architect's drawers
Cool stuff; thank you. I wonder what focal length you find the most useful doing your woodland work ? Thanks.....
What is the action you mentioned you have set up for the blur feature towards the end of the video? Would be interested to hear how you set that up! ☺️
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing
A really great informative video Nigel. I have one question about using the curves adjustment and blending layer for the Gaussian blur. Would using blend-if on that layer have the same effect, where you ‘protect’ the shadows so only the light areas are effected?
Yes, absolutely
Great tutorial, Nigel. Thank you.
I use Lightroom CC, and I think I am missing tools you are using. If you don't mind, what Lightroom reference are you using?
Thans a lot from Barcelona.
Beautiful photos and a great video Nigel! What paper are you printing your photos on to enhance the painterly look? Thanks in advance - I've been a follower for years!
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Nigel…tried to buy Masterclass 2 but it did not offer 50% discount as you listed? Anyway to get that discount?
Is the mask options only available in newer versions of lightroom? I have the 2020 version and my toolbar looks different!
Hi Nigel, may I ask what monitor are you using here in your video?
You say you always shoot in "cloudy", presume thats the white balance. As you shoot RAW does it make a big difference?
Nigel awesome video and very informative. If I may ask, what are you storing your images in? It appears like some sort of chest, but I would be interested in knowing what it is call as I'm in the market for something similar. thanks!
is it correct you can't reach the 99% Adobe RGB on the IMac screen? Does that bother you since your printer can?
Nigel - a serious question, your before picture is the accurate photo of the scene, it matches your memories of the moment, tweaking images for the cool factor is NOT what your shot originally - does that seem that wrong? Just seems so many people fully manipulate the original image and not true to the art. - just my 2 cente
I try and recreate an image that my minds eye saw (as Ansel Adams used to say). Editing has been done on images for 100+ years. After all a JPG is an edit of a RAW. So basically if it recreates the mood you felt then great
damn, I Tried to buy your masterclass but in Nederlands, I mean in the EU Paypal doesn't support bank cards idk can't connect my bank with PayPal was so frustrated because the 50% of was a perfect moment to buy....
For my taste most of the techniques you shared is making what wasn't and it kind of devalues images completely. But still makes for a nice art, I guess. Just not as precious as getting that golden fog for real and capturing it into a photograph.
If you have to alter the image to such a point it looks false .
Less is more
There's nothing "painterly" about this. You desaturated it. That's it. You added a bunch of jargon in your explanation that doesn't apply to what you're actually doing. We can see what you're doing and it's not matching the words you're using.
Another great tutorial. BTW, when I click the link for the Masterclass discount, it's for 30% not 50. With a bit of pokingaroubd I found the discount code though.
Amazing edits. Thank you so much for sharing your great knowledge for free 🙇♀️.
Glad you like them!
I’ve been a professional photographer for over 20 years, all be it portrait largely, and I really value your deep understanding of light, the journey of the eye… more than that, I really learned some new skills and have been wondering how I could apply this to portrait photography. I’d be really interested to see how you retouch a portrait using these same techniques. Have you done this and would you consider a tutorial? Having a fresh approach would be really interesting.
I am a beginner photographer and I am trying to get better. I love woodland photography and we rarely have good conditions for photography on this part of the planet. So your videos are giving me great push and teach me a lot to become better and better photographer although the lack of conditions and locations
Can't even describe how helpful this tutorial is, I turned more into woodland photography this fall, but I really struggled with editing these kind of images. Hopefully I can do better after this video! Really appreciated Nigel!
I have trouble even taking woodland photos. I just do not understand how I make my subject, maybe a specific tree, stand out from all the other trees without using bokeh.
Really interesting to hear your process. Found it fascinating to hear you're inspired by paintings!
This tutorial is superb and will be so useful using some of your techniques. Your original images are raw excellent but the subtle changes in individual colours and luminosity in selected areas make such an overall feel.
Thank you
Great video! Love woodland photography and it's always a treat seeing your images 👏
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