Ghostly Mountains
My favorite subject in front of the telephoto lens: moody mountains caught in swirling clouds. Learn countless state-of-the-art techniques in this highly detailed video tutorial for editing ghostly mountains in Photoshop.
With this course you can recreate:
Gleam of Dawn
Freedom Spires
Still for a Moment
Landscape of mountains
A ghostly image of a mountainous landscape. When we use the telephoto lens to frame a summit among swirling clouds with the odd bird circling in thermals, we are transported to a different state of mind.
In this mountain photography tutorial, we will post-process three completely different images of a moody landscape of mountains, where atmosphere is the most important aspect.
Watch me edit “Freedom Spires”, "Still for a Moment" and the panorama "Gleam of Dawn" - start to finish. That’s right. Three full-length processing videos! During this 3,5+ hour long silent editing video, you will learn new techniques such as Matte Painting, Color Grading and Creating a Film Look, that you can use in any of your photos to make it look like a screenshot from your favorite movie. Additionally, you will see how you can repair a panorama gone wrong if one image is not quite sharp, and all the special effects like Soft Glow, Orton and Diffuse Light created in both Photoshop AND Skylum Luminar. If you’re an intermediate or seasoned digital photographer, then there are Channel Selection techniques and Luminosity Masking tips in here as well. Lastly, you will learn how to make your images look fantastic for the web.
Resized PSDs and DNG raw-files are included for all images. All videos are fully narrated and annotated/subtitled (English only) to explain what’s going on.
What you will learn in this tutorial
✔️ Aligning layers by hand using the Difference Blending Mode.
✔️ Selecting the best parts of different images shot in rapid succession: birds, changes in light, etc.
✔️ Leading the eye with darkness and light.
✔️ Cloud dodging and reflected light dodging.
✔️ Luminosity Selections (RGB Channels and Tony Kuyper’s luminosity masks).
✔️ Post-Processing for a dramatic film-look, straight from the fantasy films of Peter Jackson set in Middle-Earth.
✔️ Matte Painting - the technique actually used in those films to create backgrounds.
✔️ Alternatively use Skylum Luminar to create those light effects.
✔️ Panorama Stitching with a back-up plan.
✔️ Repairing slightly out-of-focus mountains.
✔️ Selecting the best crops.
✔️ Editing the raw file for use in Photoshop.
✔️ Creative Controlled Warping & The Transform Tool.
✔️ Simultaneous Raw pre-processing.
✔️ Orton effect creation and control in Photoshop.
✔️ Light Bleed and other light effects in Photoshop.
✔️ Cloning out distractions.
✔️ Color grading and color corrections.
✔️ Export and sharpening for the web.
What’s included in this course
⭐ These three videos contain more than 3,5 hours’ worth of processing together, one of my biggest Photoshop tutorials ever recorded!
⭐ Three PSD-files (resized) of “Freedom Spires”, “Still for a Moment” and “Gleam of Dawn” with every adjustment still present.
⭐ Read-me file linking to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.
⭐ A bunch of ever updated videos that keep up with tools, updates and versioning, to make these videos absolutely timeless.
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Specs, how to watch and other fine print
After payment, you will download a PDF document containing links to download the actual videos and files needed to follow along from a private Dropbox link. You don’t need Dropbox, or any other account, it’s just hosted there on mine. There’s additional information in that PDF as well.
Note that this is a Digital Download product. No physical DVD or USB thumb drive is included.
I do not offer refunds on digital products.
Video: H264 MP4, 1920x1080p (Full HD). 10fps, variable bitrate
Audio: AAC 48 kHz, 192 kbps stereo
Fully English subtitled by me. Narrated by Michael in English, a professional American voice actor.
Total running time: 3 hours 37 minutes PLUS nearly two hours of additional videos as a free bonus.
Total size of the download: about 4.7 GB.
You can download the files separately, so you don’t have to download one huge file all at once.