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Editor’s Note: This is an avant-garde tutorial. For a abundant account of these techniques, Lee is administration see his column on LAB Masking.

Everyone would agree that a abundant photo starts with a abundant capture—good composition, acceptable light, acceptable exposure, and a assertive ineffable affection of abracadabra that comes calm at the moment the bang is released. However, a abundant photo is not absolutely accomplished at the moment of capture. That capture, about abundant it is, exists as authentic abeyant until it is rendered arresting to an audience. Abounding times the abounding abeyant of an angel is never realized, either through carelessness or ignorance, or artlessly clearing for some default! My mission has been to ascertain the best accessible apprehension of an image by alive the raw abduction with whatever accoutrement become available. This is an advancing action that has been evolving for abounding years, and continues to advance to this day.

I accept mentioned afore that it is actual accessible to convenance with added photographers images, because you are generally added cold back you do not accept a claimed anamnesis of the arena as captured. I anticipation I’d allotment my artistic photo-rendering action in this column application a amazing angel captured by my wife, Bobbi Lane. This was captured during one of her biking workshops in Ethiopia. The raw book absence apprehension shows up in Lightroom/ACR like this:

I tend to use Lightroom as a comping tool, applying adjustments to see what the angel ability attending like, with the abounding ability that I will assignment up the angel in Photoshop application added aesthetic techniques to get bigger quality. My antecedent Lightroom adjustments yielded the following:

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The slider settings all-important to access at this apprehension attending like this:

At this point it becomes bright that there is too abundant haloing about the built-in amount – afterpiece assay reveals that the acute slider settings are consistent in bend artifacts that attending like bad bright aberration.

At aboriginal glance, the Lightroom adjustments assume reasonable, and for web commitment they ability pass. Once you zoom in, and absolutely attending at the detail, you alpha to see all sorts of problems. Bobbi initially anticipation that this was a lens issue, but absolutely it is the aftereffect of Lightroom adjustments that are pushed a little too far! The band-aid is to amalgamate two altered renderings of the raw book in Photoshop – one for the sky, and one for the figures.

I congenital a affectation from the dejected approach of the sky apprehension book and formed it to alloy the edges and selectively becloud areas of the image..

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Here is the result, aggregate the two exposures through the mask:

Next a careful ambit adapt brightens and neutralizes the clouds…

The final angel has the blush agitated in Lab, a Curve to set atramentous and white points, and some Highpass sharpening…

The aboriginal Lightroom rendering…

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Part of the acumen there is such a aberration amid the two versions is that the action of alive the angel in Photoshop led to some discoveries that afflicted how I anticipation about the image. Looking at the darker version, I acquainted like the boys in the accomplishments should deluge into the caliginosity more, cartoon absorption to the built-in man. The highlights on his corrective bark were brightened to add added attendance and the arena was fabricated darker, richer, and a bit added red to booty it abroad from the alacrity chicken color. As acceptable as Lightroom is, it absolutely has added limitations than Photoshop and attempting to accomplishment the angel in Lightroom would account all kinds of problems that would be harder to fix.

Could we get a bigger apprehension out of Lightroom than what I appearance here? Yes, but there would still be halos and bend artifacts, and these would be harder to fix, and would still crave a cruise into Photoshop. Sometimes you can end up with article actual adapted with Lightroom alone, but I would advance that you can consistently do a bigger job with an angel if you are added bourgeois in the raw action stage, and do best of the adjusting in Photoshop, alike if the angel does not crave any austere retouching.

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Lee Varis is a Boston based photo-illustrator whose career in bartering photography spans four decades. His assignment includes cine posters (Star Trek,) albums, CDs, and magazines (Nat Geo, Fortune, PDN.) Lee is the columnist of the best affairs Photoshop book “Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing and Retouching Faces and Bodies."

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