Editing landscape images does not have to be difficult! This was recently brought home to me during a seminar that I hosted along with Hougaard Malan of Landscapegear for a Nisi launch event. Some of the editing tips he suggested were the same or similar to how I approach fast edits of landscape images. So here are three 'tricks' for better landscape editing:
- Gradient filters to balance the exposure,
- Radial filters/masks instead of the vignette tool, and
- Targeted color saturation instead of the saturation slider.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:18 The usual issues with Landscape Images
01:47 Trick 1 - Using gradient masks to balance exposure
06:19 Trick 2 - Using a radial mask instead of the vignette slider
09:06 Trick 3 - Using targeted saturation instead of the saturation slider
10:56 Image edit with all three tricks applied
14:36 Second image edit with all tricks applied plus extra selections
19:38 Conclusion