![]() ![]() and change the values there (not too much again). I select Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast. Now it’s time to adjust brightness and contrast. Then, Image – Adjustments – Vibrance, and change the values there (not too much) and hit OK again. and move the Amount and Tone sliders for Shadows and Highlights, leaving the Radius slider alone, and on the Adjustments section, I change the Color and Midtone sliders according to my preference and hit OK. To accomplish this, I first select Image – Adjustments – Shadows/Highlights. Now that I have selected the bird, it’s time to adjust some lighting options. I choose Select – Modify – Feather (Shift+F6)from menu and apply a value between 8 to 14 for the Feather Radius. Then, from the menu, Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation (Cmd+U), I increase the value for Saturation to a maximum of 9 to give the image a bit of redness.īecause I want to lay some emphasis on the bird rather than the background or the surrounding other objects, I choose to select the bird roughly using Magnetic Lasso Tool (L) by magnifying the image with Cmd-+Īnd now the tricky part, before proceeding any further, in order to keep conformity (not to cause color difference) with the background, I apply some feather to the selected bird. Then, I choose Image – Adjustments – Color Balance (Cmd+B) from the menu and increase the value on the first box of Color Levels, which is Cyan, to a maximum of 9, where I generally prefer a value around 7. I will not go into detail here.Īfter applying Topaz DeNoise, I go to Image – Adjustments - Levels (Cmd+L) from the menu on top, and move the slider in the Input Levels either to left or right to adjust the light levels of the image, again to my own liking. I use Topaz Denoise for this purpose but this is the subject of another blog. When I’m done with the adjustments on Camera RAW, I click on Open Image button and move to Photoshop CC main window where I perform some more adjustments.įirst action I take here is to reduce noise. Again the values change according to the image but I generally move Highlights to (-), Lights to (+), Darks to (-) and Shadows to (+) direction. Then I move to Tone Curve tab where I make some more adjustments on the image according to my liking by sliding Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows respectively. The reason being is that even though giving a little sharpness to the image shot over ISO 2,500 increases the amount of unwanted noise (grain). Please note that I move the value here down to “0” if the image is shot on high ISO like 2,500 and above so that I can reduce noise on Topaz DeNoise. ![]() When I’m satisfied with the result, I move forward to the Detail tab where I increase Sharpening to +35 to sharpen the image just a little bit before processing on Photoshop main window. Then pressing the ALT key, I move the sliders left or right for Blacks, Shadows, Highlight and Exposure respectively until I get rid of or almost get rid of the exploded parts (the blue, yellow and red parts) in the image.įollowing is the before and after image example of adjusting Blacks slider.Īnd these are the examples of Red exploded areas when you press the ALT key while moving the slider on Whites and when processing Exposure. Then I click Auto to see the exploded parts of the image and increase the value on Clarity to +40 to give the image some clarity. Starting with Basic tab, I first check White Balance. Generally I use this format for the images I upload to Facebook and Instagram) and after cropping the image, I carry on with making some adjustments with the tools on the right panel. This gives me the opportunity to easily adjust the image size to Full HD or 4K format whenever I prefer to use it. So before making any adjustments on the RAW image, I crop the image to my liking which is almost always 16:9 format. ![]() So that I may see the exploded areas on the image. When processing images on Camera Raw, I always keep the Shadow clipping warning (U) and Highlight clipping warning (O) ON. My Workflow to Post-process Bird Images on Photoshop CCĪs I always shoot RAW, I start with double clicking the CR2 file which is the RAW file format for Canon cameras (yes, I’m a dedicated Canon user) to open it on Photoshop Camera RAW. I’m using Photoshop CC 2018 while processing my bird photographs and follow almost always the same method which I will share with you in this article. ![]()
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