Okay guys, so welcome to part five of my video course. In this lesson, I show you the editing the complete editing of my favorite landscape image in 2017. So I took this photo at the cap Formentera on my Orca. So many tourists visit this place every day. So it's very crowded there. But after the sunset, when you can see really a magical light, so when it gets really red in the sky, and when it's a magical moment, all of the people that are leaving the cup form and tada, they are driving home with their cars.

And I use this moment to capture the light track of these cars and combine it into my composition to use it as a kind of leading line towards the lighthouse. So I really like the curves here and the composition of it. So that was the raw file I took with my Sony A seven and I'll show you how to make something really great out of that kind of boring RAW files or it's too dark Of course. There are less colors in the sky. So we will take care of that. And we'll turn out with a great image.

So that's the before and that's the after that stop, guys. Okay, so, back to Lightroom. I've already imported our six RAW files, we will need to make the final image I have showed you. So why did I choose to take more than one photo here, and you'll see, I can show you the access data. So it was at 30 of a second. And you see the cost need more than 30 seconds to drive the whole street from the lighthouse to the bottom here.

So I decided to take more than one RAW file to really have a continuous light check because he in this image, I have only parts of it. So I really wanted to have a complete logic of red lights of cars which are driving him right towards the lighthouse and also a continuous white light track of cars who are leaving the lighthouse. So it Six images, I can show them to you. So that's image number one. Here we have the red, red light track image number two, the brighter here, image number three, number four, number six, and number seven. So, we will start by doing the road development in Lightroom.

So by we will choose one of these images and make something great out of that in Lightroom. So do the magic. So we will really recover the colors in the sky, we will sharpen the image and so on. And then we of course, go to Photoshop, and I show you how to blend these six images together to get one really awesome photo. So guys, let's start by going to the develop module in Lightroom. So for the rock development I took I take one photo which already has nearly a continuous lights track so this one has only Missing a part.

So with this photo, I can imagine how the final image 10 will look. So I decided to take this for the role development and then we will of course, synchronize all the settings to the other RAW files and then we will edit them in Photoshop. So, I start with my usual workflow as I already showed you in the last lessons. So first we make sure that enable profile corrections is switched on. Also remove chromatic aberration. Okay, so then we also click also add a bride that the image is leveled up correctly.

Okay, wonderful. And now we maybe also can start at cropping the photo because I think the sky isn't that interesting in this image because there are no clouds. There were no clouds this evening. And we can maybe crop it just a bit and make sure that the lighthouse is in the middle of the picture. So you can Take this little thing here too, to make sure that the latter is in the middle. So we can crop it a bit on this side, maybe something like that in the bathroom.

I think it's fine because we have some interesting foreground with the this fascist here. So I will maybe leave it like that the horizons also great, I think but we can make sure that it really is by using the tool here in Lightroom. Yeah, so now it's really straight. Then we just click Done. So now we've already cropped our photo. And then the lighthouse is really in the center of the image.

And now we can start with our basic retouching. So first, as always, we will have to set the correct white balance the camera I think the image is much too blue. So as it was a little bit of sunsets. situations it was short after the sunset, I think we really need warm colors here. So um, every time I added a sunset image as I told you, I go to shade white balance shade in Lightroom. And you'll see the difference.

So we take a look at the before and after it gets much more warm. Of course it doesn't look really well now, but we will add more colors to the newsletter and also take care of the exposures. I think it's a bit too dark, but I always underexposed my shots a bit to really capture all the highlights to have no tears, no parts of the image which burned out. So maybe let's brighten up just a bit. Maybe something like that. Okay, contrast is fine, I think so we don't have to change the contrast here.

And now as always, I bring down the highlights. Maybe not so much on this image, maybe something like 90 years time. Okay. So now I opened up The shadows, so you have never seen me doing that. Yes. And then we have to set our whites of course, our white points.

So by holding the Alt key, and here just okay if some parts of the light trail burn out. Because we don't care about that, just make sure that we have a bit of contrast in the image. So maybe something like that is looks good here, and also our black point. So we go to minus maybe not that much, because already was really dark, maybe something like minus 20. So we brought back the contrast now and has all the details. So if you take a look at the before and after, here, um the splashes and also the rocks here, it was really dark so we couldn't see all the details.

But now by opening up the shadows and bring down the highlights we have much more details in the sky and also here in the dark tones of the image. But now it again looks a bit HDR so we reduce the clarity we have minus k Here's always, maybe something like minus 17 here is fine. Okay, so that's the basic retouching. And of course we have to take care of the colors now. So let's add a bit of vibrance here. Maybe something like that.

So you see the, the ocean gets much more blue. The trees have more colors here also and here. Yeah, I think this really looks time and also we can boost the saturation a bit. So I really like that kind of look. And now to add more color and to really, really recover the colors in the sky, we can always do this by the Split Toning and by doing local adjustments, so we go down to this bit tuning section of Lightroom and we are now hope the Alt key and select a color which will like so many Maybe a bit of an orange tongue or something like that. Something like that looks fine.

And we of course boost the saturation of this. But not too much, because otherwise it looks weird if you have too much orange also here, but you can see this also here on the stones and the rocks. And it affects also these parts of the image because they are a bit bright. And this gives really a warm look to the photo as the sun would still shine on these rocks. So it just looks awesome. Yeah, and also we need to select tone for the shadows.

So again, holding the Alt key and select tone, maybe 230 is fine. So kind of blue tone to create a bit depth. Now we have to be really much out with the saturation to not overdo this because it will destroy the whole look of the image. So just go a bit here. The exposure bit. So if we turn on and off the Split Toning, you see we have a bit more color information, the sky a bit more blue tones in the depths of in the dark tones in the shadows.

And just the rocks here will shine a bit warmer. So I really like that. And now let's take care of the colors in the sky. So that's really important for this image that we bring back the colors here because I want to communicate the message of a wonderful sunset image after sunset image here and yeah, it's completely missing. So we can of course now do a radial filter to bring or take the sunset again, or to boost the sunset here in this image. So I'll do a radial all over the full width of the image here.

Maybe like that. Okay, and now we will add a bit of magenta. Oh, not that much. Okay, and maybe make it a bit warmer. Make always sure that Heather is it 100 that it looks natural. So, maybe a bit more magenta and boost the saturation.

Yeah, I kind of like that. The less magenta and a bit more orange, maybe. Oh, that looks nice. Wonderful. Okay, and now we can do a second gradient to make more orange tones here the right. So maybe just make sure that the exposure is set to zero here.

We don't write it up so much. Okay, make sure that feather is in 100 and then we add because we reset the exposure And we add a bit of orange here to this part not too much. So be very subtle and watch out that it looks natural and we boost the saturation a bit okay, we can add a bit of exposure here. Maybe like that and also here a bit more saturation and a bit exposure. I think that looks really nice. So if we take a look at the before the after of the radio filters, so you see it really brings back the colors to the sky.

It looks now that we had a wonderful sunset or after sunset situation here. So now, the sky at the top is too bright. So um, we will have to do that what I do at every image, we will close the image at the top and at the bottom of course. So let's add a gradient here. Lower the exposure to really get this here right into your photo. Something like that.

So you can make it a bit more blue at the top here a bit more saturation a bit darker, something like that I kind of like that look. Okay, maybe we can move to the radio suit a bit to the top here, make it a bit higher and boosted pay the saturation just a bit. So always remember that the colors on mobile phones and if you post this image to social networks will get less so sometimes you have to overdo it a bit just a bit on your computer because the colors just won't be as strong as on your PC then. So I have recognized this very often. So I think here and the left hand top in the left top corner, it's still a bit too bright. So we can add a Radial Filter here again and lower a bit the exposure here to make it more natural.

Okay something like that is sine. Wonderful. So I kind of like that look here and let me show you the before and after of the radial filters. So it's just amazing what you can adjust with radial filters. Really important tool in Lightroom. So boom, we recover the sunset so we have now colors in the sky.

And as we set the correct white balance of warm white balance, it looks natural because also the rocks and everything here is a bit warmer and by doing the Split Toning, we have also wontons now in the shadows and in the highlights here at the at the stones. So it just looks natural, I think and if we will take a look at the before and after. Wow While with these simple steps by just doing brown the basic retrenchment with the highlights, shadows, whites, blacks minus clarity vibrance saturation, as always, then doing the Split Toning and local adjustments by adding color by adding saturation by adding a bit of exposure by closing the photo with just get an awesome image look. And you can do this in 10 minutes. Yeah, if you have really routine to this workflow. After this video, let's just practice with the raw files I give you and you will have a routine.

And then you can edit all your raw files in in a few minutes and have great images, I promise you, I promise you. So maybe we can brighten up the old let's first close the photo on the button a bit just a bit. Take a look. That looks nice. We make a gradient here. So sometimes it doesn't make sense to do this.

But I always like to do that and bids just a bit here. Okay, wonderful. So that gives more depth to the photo again. And maybe let's take a look if we can add a little wind, yes, maybe not so much brighter. Okay, so we go to the effect section in Lightroom here and maybe just do a little post crop vignette, something like that. Kind of like that.

So I'm not too strong, right in here at the bottom, so we don't want to be too dark here.