Major project - Lightroom and Photoshop practise

 As this week's practise for my major project I will be editing some photos in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

I will colour correct a few photos in Lightroom having in mind the knowledge I got from the tutorials I have watched before (more on them in the Ideas generation post), and I will do a sky replacement in Photoshop.

1. Lightroom

Below you can view a short recording of my editing process on one of the photos. Another photo I edited in the similar way and you can view the before/after comparison beneath the video.
The edited photos are in RAW format and were downloaded from Unsplash.


Before and after:



2. Photoshop

I started my photoshop practise with Sky replacements because it is one of the most simple techniques in compositing. I am quite new to this kind of editing, therefore I wanted to start from the basics.

 Below you can view a short video with commentary on my editing process. These photos were also supplied from Unsplash.


And here are the photos before and after:




I will be experimenting more with compositing and colour grading in the future. I have to do a lot of work in the compositing department, I still have problems with choosing the right colours so both photos look like one. However, overall I think that my sky replacement edits are quite decent for the first time, and I like my edits in Lightroom, but I think that the greens are too saturated.

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