Trevor, this was really helpful. I will have to try this on some of my photos that I took over the past few years. I would love to see more bird processing tutorials, as it allows me to dig through what I already have and breath new light into old photos.
Thanks for sharing your post method, I like it, but no 2 people seem to do it the exact same way in either case...Personally, what I would have done on this image, is crop it in, possibly a 1 to 1 crop or perhaps a 4 x 5 crop, eliminating as much of the distracting background on the left as possible. I do 99% of my post work in LR5 using Canon RAW images from the Canon DPP program. It's relatively quick, easy & it works...I am able to achieve everything you have done in PS in this particular instance.When I am happy with the end result, I size it & export it into my designated JPG. folder as a high resolution JPEG @ 300 PPI, Done... Thank you,Bill Farr... :-)
William Farr - I shoot Nikon and have LR6 (not Photoshop, yet) and am interested in what you do in LR for noise reduction. Just play with Sharpening, Detail, and Noise sliders? Thanks.
@ Mark Muller... Sorry it took so long to reply back. To answer your question as best I can when working in LR... Less is better where sharpening is concerned on wildlife in general, especially birds... After my basic module work is mostly complete, brush work, gradients, radials, tone curve, etc. I move down to the Detail Module: Sharpening Amount is very minimal if any, I almost always use Masking, especially if there is sky involved, Luminance Reduction, again not to much, depends on what your ISO settings were in camera & how much grain is present. Sometime I use Detail & Radius while in there... After all my post work is done, be it wildlife or landscapes, then & only then I do Lens Corrections & then my cropping typically, but not always... I hope this helps in some small way... Bill... :-)
William Farr - Thanks Bill, that’s helpful. I’ll need to start using the other adjustments you mentioned. I think I rely too much on Sharpening. Thanks
You will have more control over your sharpening in LR when pressing the Alt/Option key while using the sliders. That way you'll see a b/w preview of what and how you're sharpening.
Another advantage of doing so is to keep the file size minimal, because each additional pixel layer increases that size drastically and hence slows down the processing.
Trevor, this was really helpful. I will have to try this on some of my photos that I took over the past few years. I would love to see more bird processing tutorials, as it allows me to dig through what I already have and breath new light into old photos.
Do you guys sell your photos and if you do can you share how you sell them and always thanks for the video love em
Great tutorial.
Thank you! This was very simple and effective!
Thanks for the feedback Donna!
Thanks, great and helpful video!
Great video. Thank you. 👍
Is that background music from The Elder Scrolls?!
Interesting video. Thank you.
Use a layer mask... also do a high pass filter and do the noise reduction on the grey image.
Thanks for sharing your post method, I like it, but no 2 people seem to do it the exact same way in either case...Personally, what I would have done on this image, is crop it in, possibly a 1 to 1 crop or perhaps a 4 x 5 crop, eliminating as much of the distracting background on the left as possible. I do 99% of my post work in LR5 using Canon RAW images from the Canon DPP program. It's relatively quick, easy & it works...I am able to achieve everything you have done in PS in this particular instance.When I am happy with the end result, I size it & export it into my designated JPG. folder as a high resolution JPEG @ 300 PPI, Done... Thank you,Bill Farr... :-)
William Farr - I shoot Nikon and have LR6 (not Photoshop, yet) and am interested in what you do in LR for noise reduction. Just play with Sharpening, Detail, and Noise sliders? Thanks.
@ Mark Muller... Sorry it took so long to reply back. To answer your question as best I can when working in LR... Less is better where sharpening is concerned on wildlife in general, especially birds... After my basic module work is mostly complete, brush work, gradients, radials, tone curve, etc. I move down to the Detail Module: Sharpening Amount is very minimal if any, I almost always use Masking, especially if there is sky involved, Luminance Reduction, again not to much, depends on what your ISO settings were in camera & how much grain is present. Sometime I use Detail & Radius while in there... After all my post work is done, be it wildlife or landscapes, then & only then I do Lens Corrections & then my cropping typically, but not always... I hope this helps in some small way...
Bill... :-)
William Farr - Thanks Bill, that’s helpful. I’ll need to start using the other adjustments you mentioned. I think I rely too much on Sharpening. Thanks
You will have more control over your sharpening in LR when pressing the Alt/Option key while using the sliders. That way you'll see a b/w preview of what and how you're sharpening.
Thank you! Share more, please!
Good video, but mask instead of erase. They have the same effect but you can revert the mask more easily if you delete a bit too much
Another advantage of doing so is to keep the file size minimal, because each additional pixel layer increases that size drastically and hence slows down the processing.
thank you sir good video. keep it up
+MTC Tutorials Thank you!!
I too listen to Skyrim music when editing photos.
thanks.
Nice photo but I find the background branch going from left to right out of his head distracting.
You need to learn a lot on the PP side IMO :)
Come on where are the 3200-6400 iso pics? Those are what birders struggle with..Not a 320 iso already perfect image..
The woodpecker pic didn't need sharpening at all.
You never showed us the before and after! Don't you think that might be helpful? Silly if you ask me...
This picture didn't need any noise reduction or sharpening so what was this suppose to teach me? Click Bait
Please drop the music. It is nice but distracting.