Let’s face it: no matter how good you are or how many landscape photos you’ve taken, you WILL face highlight blowouts. It’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN!
Ideally, we want to get everything perfect in-camera, but if we don’t, we no longer have to throw out those photos. There is a straightforward fix for them, and it comes in an odd package… Selective Color.
Yes! A tool we typically use for color grading can also be used to fix highlight blowouts and it’s actually pretty simple to do. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll be fixing highlight blowouts in seconds, I promise!
Chapters
00:00 Quick Intro
01:04 Quickly Explained
03:25 Slower Explanation
06:42 Refining the Adjustment
07:16 Fixing LARGE Blowouts
09:20 More with Selective Color
f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite are the brainchildren of Blake Rudis. While he is a landscape photographer, he is most passionate about post-processing images in Photoshop and mentoring others.
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
THANKS
Great problem solving for many images! Thank you!
Fantastic technique! Thank you so much!
This is great (as is most of your stuff), thanks!
haha, just most of it. Well I guess I need to throttle it up…
Blake, This is awesome … and thanks for explaining absolute and relative! I loved your comment about not drink is straight out of the bottle … ha, ha
Great information! In facebook I belong to an Old Family Photo group. This group posts old B&W photos of their families. A lot of times they will request to repair and colorize these photos. I take these photos and practice on them to colorize and to repair the photos. When I get done with photos and send them back to the facebook group, I get a lot of great compliments on my work. I use all your techniques in Camera Raw and Photoshop to get the job done. I do not consider myself to be expert in photoshop (who is?) but I am quite comfortable using Photoshop. Thank you for being a great instructor.
Thanks for great tutorials. In both your recent Selective Color tutorials, you’ve used an overlay that shows the color effects of the sliders. As you said, it’s not available in Photoshop, but can you give the source? It looks incredibly useful.
Wonderful, Blake. I tried out a photo using your earlier recommendations. I had an opportunity to photograph a spider that was smaller than my pinky nail. Unfortunately I couldn’t stack it in camera b/c it kept moving but at least I had a macro lens ready… Unfortunately there was a blowout behind my yellow hat on which the critter was scampering but it’s now a lovely yellow match. Watching those tips was timely b/c the other methods weren’t working for me. Now I’m off to put more of your tips to good use. How I value being an f64 Elite member.
THKSM Blake !!! … Excellent and useful topic !!! … Because this happens to everybody many times in real life !!! … Best wishes !!!
This was awesome and I can’t wait to try it!!
ps – pour from the absolute bottle!!