Tutorial II - After

This tutorial is done in Photoshop CS3, and you need some basic knowlegde to follow it. The numbers are the exact ones I used.

Step by step snapshots at www.soffia.net/tutorial.html

1. I duplicade the layer twise, on one layer I erase out carefully the mountain with soft eraser, opacity 100 flow around 60. (you can also use masks) One layer is just to have the photo as it is.

2. Name the layers ( image01) mountains, clouds and just_in_case_layer.

3. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Levels. (Image 02) I tweeked the 3 arrows untill I got 8 ~ 0,73 ~ 200

4. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer again but this time choose Brightness/Contrast. and put in -12 for brightness and contr. -28 (Image03)

5. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer again and choose Hue/Saturation. (Image 04)
take up saturation to 22

6. For now, I´m fairly happy with the mountains, so now I drag the Clouds layer on top of all the layers. (Image 05)

7. Then I merge the mountains with all the adjustment layers by selecting all the layers, and choose merge layers (Image 06)Name the Layer mountains again if it´s called hue/saturation.

8. Now we can work on the clouds, you can turn off the mountains layer by clicking on the eye on the left. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Levels. (Image 02) I tweeked the 3 arrows untill I got 18 ~ 0,84 ~ 215

9. I want a little more contrast in the big cloud so duplicade the clouds layer, name it cloud-contrast go to Image - Adjustment - Levels. Use 59~ 0,64~ 195. The reason why I choose levels from there is cause I only want it to affect the new cloud layer(Image 07)

10. with the cloud-contrast layer picked, go to Image - Adjustment - Brightness/Contrast and put brightness to +36 and contrast +17

11. I find the cloud too red, so go to Image - Adjustment - hue/saturation, in Edit: choose
Reds and take the saturation down to -42. After that I rease around it so the layer would look like this (Image 08)

12. Let´s go to the Clouds layer again, Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Brightness/Contrast. put in +45 for brightness (Image03)

13. Go to create new fill or adjustment layer (Image 04) and choose Hue/Saturation. In Edit:
Blues hue: -13 sat: -67
Cyans hue: -10 sat: -57 (or tweek the numbers untill you´re happy with the colors......)

15. Merge the layers by selecting Cloud-contrast,clouds and the all the adjustment layers(image 06) (you can also select the layers and hit Ctrl + E )

16. Turn on the Mountains Layer. Flatten image. Then I did some more adjucstment with hue/sat, cyan -9 and -39 then blues -4 and -22 and Yelloes -35. And then I went to levels and did 8 ~ 1,16 ~ 255.

17. Then I put the lomo gradient fill with 40 % opacity on that layer

I did use the clone stamp to erase out a part of the sky, the dark bottom part... :P

And finally I ran it through Neat Image, a software I bought the other day. neatimage.com/

I could probably spend another hour tweeking and tuning. But let´s say this done for now.

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  1. ★

    wittermann, joka2000, Michael Ash Smith, JuttaMK, and 1023 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Soffia Gisladottir (58 months ago | reply)

    Before:

    Tutorial II -Before

  3. alun_thomas09 (58 months ago | reply)

    Nice job, very beautiful!

  4. Kamal H. (58 months ago | reply)

    striking image! Well done.

  5. Michael Ash Smith (58 months ago | reply)

    wow ... great tutorial and shot Soffia!

  6. Sandra_R (58 months ago | reply)

    Wow! Outstanding!

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    Fantastic


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  8. * Roman Rivera * [deleted] (58 months ago | reply)

    Excelente imagen....

  9. Dyrk.Wyst (58 months ago | reply)

    amazing work.. and thank you that you take the time to share your "secrets" ;-))

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  10. Bene Maldonado (58 months ago | reply)

    wonderful colors and composition!!!

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  13. Michelle TX (58 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful! And thank you so much for your wonderful tutorials...you are too kind! :)

  14. accipitereye (58 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for sharing. What a great, dramatic end result.

  15. Oddur Jóns (58 months ago | reply)

    Glæsileg mynd og flott að fá svona kennslu. Á eftir að prófa þetta skref fyrir skref.

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  17. risemeagain© (58 months ago | reply)

    Awesome,my friend!

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  18. Mohd Al-Harbi (58 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for the info ....
    Beautiful capture ...

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  20. intweetion (58 months ago | reply)

    *thank you*.
    Stunning work.

  21. Soffia Gisladottir (58 months ago | reply)

    And thank YOU all, and you´re welcome.

    After finding out there are people out there who actually like my photos and want to know how I work them, I give them all "my secrets" with plesure and potatos : )

    Sx

  22. a_chiriboga (58 months ago | reply)

    Wow! Awesome job! Thanks a lot for the tutorial...

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  23. EmMGee (58 months ago | reply)

    Great landscape!

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  24. Stathis Stavrianos (Stathis_1980) (58 months ago | reply)

    Very nice photo....thank you for the tutorial....congratulations for shairing your knowledge...!!!

  25. David Giral | davidgiralphoto.com (58 months ago | reply)

    very nicely done... the only thing that bothers me is the colour of the sky after... but it's a matter of taste.

  26. RDK e8ght (58 months ago | reply)

    nice...

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  28. johann Smari (58 months ago | reply)

    glæsileg

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  29. Krynowek Eine (58 months ago | reply)

    AMAZING!
    I'm your fan!
    Great Shot! and better corrrection!

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    It was a great shot to start with............now it's spectacular!!!
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  38. Luis Vásquez [ Luis3D ] (58 months ago | reply)

    wow amazing sky i like you work , i love you work :D

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  45. Joel Bedford (58 months ago | reply)

    wonderful tonal balance here...

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    captured very well and treated perfectly !

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  50. sigrún bein (58 months ago | reply)

    geggjað flott tutorial ...ég verð að prufa þetta.
    kv Sigrún Björk

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