Hi guys.
I´ve been getting many emails where people are asking me how
I work my photos
so I thought you´d like a tutorial.
Well, this is the first time I do a tutorial. I hope
it makes sence. If you find this helpful
I ´ll try to find a photo that needs a massive
work, and do another one, with more steps and screenshots.
This tutorial is made with Photoshop version 8.0, and a basic
knowledge to do this tutorial helps.
STEP 1
duplicate layer, name it sky
STEP 2
with layer we called sky, go to
IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS
and put in the numbers
68
1,38
255
go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - hue saturation
-12
-55
0
STEP 3
name the background layer mountain (turn off the sky layer)
go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS
49
1,03
217
STEP 4
turn on sky layer, and with that layer selected, erase everything but
the sky
STEP5
duplicate sky layer, name it blur
go to filter - blur - gaussian blur 8,4%
STEP 6
erase everything but the blue tones with a soft brush to make the
clouds in focus
and bring down the opacity of the brush at some points
STEP 7
merge sky layer and blur layer and name it sky
at the sky layer go to:
levels
44
1,00
255
hue-sat and change Cyans, blues and master.
Cyans
-5
-38
0
blues
-7
-28
0
master
0
-18
0
STEP 8
go to mountain layer
levels
31
1,00
255
at last I put on a radical gradient
with 50% opacity, to do the vignette
(make new gradient from gray to white, with
opacity at ca 70% on the gray part)
This is what I basically do, with some
images I duplicade layers again and again
to ajust the levels, and the hue sat untill I´m
happy. I sometimes use gaussian blur at the sky
if it´s noise after all the ajustments, and then
erase the clouds part to get the focus.
Hrönn Thorarensen (NinnaK), and 1474 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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kanelstrand 41 months ago | reply
Here's what I came up with :)
Ben Capaldi 39 months ago | reply
Thank you so much for these tutorials! They've helped me absolutly loads!! Fantastic and clear :)
esskay1983 38 months ago | reply
Wow.. amazing work!!
Heidi St. 38 months ago | reply
great work !
Faire Un Voeu [deleted] 38 months ago | reply
really beautiful.
dansana 36 months ago | reply
Thanks for sharing your post processing method. Great Shot.
maggie207 34 months ago | reply
it's wonderful thanks
C laurence 31 months ago | reply
magiiiic +++
nalo.soul 31 months ago | reply
Wonderful !!
Felix van de Gein 30 months ago | reply
Great result!
SHIELDS FL 29 months ago | reply
Great processing. Thanks for the tutorial.
Mole of the Ground 25 months ago | reply
nice!
Clipping Path India 24 months ago | reply
Wow what a scene..!!
Vin Dhir 23 months ago | reply
I applied this technique to an airplane lol:
hibru 23 months ago | reply
nice pp... cool.:)
J. Kaldin 21 months ago | reply
Excellent and creative works!
AspieWriter 19 months ago | reply
Not a very clear tutorial. My class tried to follow all of your instructions and each one of us came with a whole range of problems. Please, please, please, can you give more clearer instructions, because I feel as though this is for people who have more experience with photoshop, rather than people who are beginners. There is a big problem with they sky bit, I followed your instructions to the point but it did not come out right. Please, please, please, go through and follow your own instructions absolutely just to make sure that you don't meet with the same problems as us.
Roberto Junioor Scoralich 15 months ago | reply
linda foto
belo registro
marta.in.black 15 months ago | reply
thank you so much!!!
Muahahaha... 5 months ago | reply
Whataya mean erase everything but the sky?