ABFriday 32: Follow your own footsteps

A man with an umbrella is following his own footsteps in the snow / A man with an umbrella has a feeling that someone is following him.

Stacy is arranging something called «After Before Friday». Here’s what she has to say about it:

After-Before Friday posts provide an opportunity for photographers (amateur and seasoned, alike) to share their photos, and if they wish, their post-processing decisions. The photos will provide a fun “wow” factor; the post-processing descriptions, the “how.” The goal is to enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at others’ work while picking up helpful ideas along the way that each of us can use as we work with our own photos.

This was my process: I merged three photos into a panorama in Photoshop (but I ended up using only two of them), saved the file as TIF and opened it in Lightroom. In Lightroom I played around with the settings, Most importantly I added midtones (sat clarity to 100) and removed the saturation for all the colours except yellow. I also did some brightening. You can see all the settings in this gallery:

Here’s a link to Stacy’s post. It’ll be live on Friday afternoon. http://visualventuring.com/2015/01/16/after-before-friday-32/

Tutorial: Color the sky with Lightroom

Do you use Adobe Lightroom for your image editing? Here I’ll quickly show you how to get some more color on that bland sky. 

If I have a photo like this one, where the skies are a bit bland and boring, instead of changing the saturation of the whole image, I pull down the blue luminance slider. It makes the blue more dark and can really help to lift the sky in a photo.