Hey Pavan, thanks for the comment and for having my wife and I for 3 days, we are so grateful for both your Wife and yourself's hospitality, we very much enjoyed staying with you. we travel back to GB tomorrow, after almost 3 weeks of wonderful California adventures 😀
I love you tutorials and as you requested I feel free to comment what I would do differently, nothing dramatically, just nerdy details 😅. At 6:54 , pushing the white slider to the left, only makes the image dull. Blown highlight are blown highlights, you shift them only towards muddy grey. Just imagine sun reflections as on chrome surfaces or in mirrors, you never can get rid of it. Because you replace the sky anyway, I’d rather preferred to keep the image brighter. To get rid of clipping, I suggest to use the tone curve, bring the highlights upper right corners output value down to 254 or 253 or less and if you have clipped blacks bring the bottom left points output up to 1 or more until clipping is gone. That doesn’t make the image nor dull neither greyish.
In principle, I agree with what you have said, particularly regarding blown highlights from the original image, however, I find that if I do not correct the blacks and whites after making a number of other corrections, you can still end up with whites or blacks that are beyond the 16bit images limits (outside the range of the software raster) and this can sometimes be seen if you print the image. Your point regarding the tone curve is interesting, I always thought that the tone curve was just a different way of expressing the sliders, so I will look deeper into what the tone curve can do, thank you for the comment 😀
@@jamiermathlin Re the tone curve in LRc I have just watched a Mark Denney RUclips video about using the tone curve as a good way to bring more control to getting better contrast as opposed to using the contrast slider (or indeed any other slider that does a similar job).
Yet another amazing tutorial. - Jamie, at 4:20, that creates only a group and doesn’t merge/hide the original raw, isn’t it? I keep that always checked, also merging panos and HDR, it keeps the related images together.
That's correct Roland, this creates a stack, so you deal with the finished image only, the previous images including any RAW will be placed behind the final working image in a stack, in this case, I did not stack the images, so I could show the comparison at a later time, thanks for the comment 😀
Another excellent tutorial. I expect you know, but you can streamline the merging of layers in photoshop. You currently select each layer before doing the merge, but you actually only have to select one of the layers then right click to the right of the layer name and you will get 3 options - merge down, merge visible and flatten image. Just a small time saver but useful.
My RAW files don't go back that far so I should be OK. What do you think of making a virtual copy of my edited image then resetting it and then running denoise?
If I use the Denise feature on and old photo that I retouched long ago do I have to go back and reset it to a raw photo do do so or can I run the denoise function on the retouched photo?
Great questions, basically Denoise will only run on RAW or DNG files, not TIFFs PNG etc. I am not sure how far back the support for RAWs goes, so you will have to experiment. I have checked my RAWs and DNGs back to 2014 and they work very well with Denoise 😀
Great video, I learned a lot of new things again, thanks for that!
you are very welcome 😀
You can also click on sample all layers with the remove tool activated and it will work.
thanks for the tip 😀
Great video. The editing is explained very well and the image is fabulous.
Hey Pavan, thanks for the comment and for having my wife and I for 3 days, we are so grateful for both your Wife and yourself's hospitality, we very much enjoyed staying with you. we travel back to GB tomorrow, after almost 3 weeks of wonderful California adventures 😀
I love you tutorials and as you requested I feel free to comment what I would do differently, nothing dramatically, just nerdy details 😅. At 6:54 , pushing the white slider to the left, only makes the image dull. Blown highlight are blown highlights, you shift them only towards muddy grey. Just imagine sun reflections as on chrome surfaces or in mirrors, you never can get rid of it. Because you replace the sky anyway, I’d rather preferred to keep the image brighter. To get rid of clipping, I suggest to use the tone curve, bring the highlights upper right corners output value down to 254 or 253 or less and if you have clipped blacks bring the bottom left points output up to 1 or more until clipping is gone. That doesn’t make the image nor dull neither greyish.
In principle, I agree with what you have said, particularly regarding blown highlights from the original image, however, I find that if I do not correct the blacks and whites after making a number of other corrections, you can still end up with whites or blacks that are beyond the 16bit images limits (outside the range of the software raster) and this can sometimes be seen if you print the image. Your point regarding the tone curve is interesting, I always thought that the tone curve was just a different way of expressing the sliders, so I will look deeper into what the tone curve can do, thank you for the comment 😀
@@jamiermathlin 👍 Many ways leading to Rome. Please take my comments just as suggestions 😉🤗
@@jamiermathlin Re the tone curve in LRc I have just watched a Mark Denney RUclips video about using the tone curve as a good way to bring more control to getting better contrast as opposed to using the contrast slider (or indeed any other slider that does a similar job).
,,,learned so much about LR from this vid AND how remarkably well Generative Fill performs!
I think Generative fill is a real form of Magic 😀
Always a good video Jamie. Your commentary is very informative and pitched at the right level for me. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you Bruce, it is comments like yours that kind me going on RUclips 😀
Well done again, thank you for the instruction.
You are very welcome 😀
Great video again Jamie....Just can't understand why you didn't use a radial gradient this time....lol. Seriously superb. thank you.
lol 😀
well done Jamie, another masterpiece! Cool calm and highly enjoyable, you make learning most enjoyable. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome Roy 😀
Great job, Jamie. Love the way you’ve just enhanced an already incredible image. Mike
thanks Mike 😀
Brilliant! Thank you! it was 'Option 2' all the way, Adobe save the best till 2nd!
Yet another amazing tutorial. - Jamie, at 4:20, that creates only a group and doesn’t merge/hide the original raw, isn’t it? I keep that always checked, also merging panos and HDR, it keeps the related images together.
That's correct Roland, this creates a stack, so you deal with the finished image only, the previous images including any RAW will be placed behind the final working image in a stack, in this case, I did not stack the images, so I could show the comparison at a later time, thanks for the comment 😀
Thanks Jamie...... the best is the way you doge and burn...... never done that in LR.
I find the use of the 'auto mask' function with the brush is extremely effective when dogging and burning 😀
Another excellent tutorial. I expect you know, but you can streamline the merging of layers in photoshop. You currently select each layer before doing the merge, but you actually only have to select one of the layers then right click to the right of the layer name and you will get 3 options - merge down, merge visible and flatten image. Just a small time saver but useful.
Great Tip John ! many thanks 😀
My RAW files don't go back that far so I should be OK. What do you think of making a virtual copy of my edited image then resetting it and then running denoise?
I think that could be a great idea, as long as they are original RAWs or directly imported DNGs you should be fine, let me know how you get on 😀
If I use the Denise feature on and old photo that I retouched long ago do I have to go back and reset it to a raw photo do do so or can I run the denoise function on the retouched photo?
Great questions, basically Denoise will only run on RAW or DNG files, not TIFFs PNG etc. I am not sure how far back the support for RAWs goes, so you will have to experiment. I have checked my RAWs and DNGs back to 2014 and they work very well with Denoise 😀
Interesting video, well done. But isn't it "white reveals, black conceals"? You are revealing the original image and not the mask.
You could well be right, I do often get them muddled up 😀
is this only 360p ???
The RUclips upload sequence sometimes uploads a lower resoultion first before it renders the 4k version, everything looks to be ok now 😀
ok no worries@@jamiermathlin just thought id let u know