This is a great opportunity Nigel and very glad that this time you had one of the images in DNG format as my older version of Lightroom wouldn't process the NEF files 👍
From a learning perspective, would love to not only see the best edits, but maybe a few that were good except for 1 or 2 things that could have put it over the top.
Hi Nigel. I think this is a really useful exercise for people new to editing. However, I don't use Lightroom or Photoshop but Gimp with Nik plugins. Your raw filetypes aren't supported by Gimp so I am having to convert these to tiff first. Unfortunately this does seem to affect exposure/brightness so my starting images are not the same as your raw files . Is there any chance of sending out your files as tiffs (which seems to be supported by most post processing software) to start with or would these not be of high enough quality?
If you’ve been searching for years for a great educator this is your guy. Thank you for all the hard work you’re putting into this Nigel! Please make an online photography/editing/business course! Would love to support your work and continue learning from you.
Nigel, what I love about watching your videos is that you demonstrate and teach. Not like a lot of other photographers on TH-cam that are a lot of talk. Yours are truly educational! Thank You!
I agree. Blending two images together to get the waves you like, well, for me that's crossing the line between truth and a lie. You can dress up the truth but you cannot tell a lie.
Great info on editing, will be putting some of the tips into use when I convalesce from cancer treatment. Looking forward to that, the editing not the other!
Holy smokes!!! This is a game changer video for me, Nigel! Using a grad filter to cover entire image and then being able to use range masks is genius. This negates the use of PS in most cases unless preferred. Thank you for this
It’s always very special and enjoyable for me to listen and learn from you Nigel, I admit that I play around with my colours, I’m learning slowly, I’m allowed to go slow, I turned 75 a couple of weeks ago, I’ll put on my go faster boots. Keep up your teaching ideas Nigel. Thank you.
Thank you for demystifying many of the terms and techniques used by professionals. Also thank you for taking the time to offer alternatives for technical solutions. After all it is about the composition and impression of the photo and how to get there by any reasonably artistic means possible.
Awesome set of tips and strategies for using Lightroom and Photoshop more effectively for landscape photos! Thanks for sharing some of your inspirational raw photos to experiment with to help us put these tips into action!
Thank you very much. Just being able to see a RAW file from a photographer such as yourself which allows me to compare your starting point to my starting point has been invaluable.
Nigel - this is probably one of the best LR/ACR/PS tutorials that I’ve ever seen! Each idea is very clear and explained with detail. I learned more from this than from a lot of the courses that I purchased. Thanks for these wonderful tips. I will tell all my photo buddies to have a look.... stay well
Thanks Nigel. I got excited when I saw the edit of the Blending of the 2 Wave photos. Also the lightroom tips were amazing. Appreciate. Hope you are not too frustrated with Lockdown. Time for learning!
I work in VFX for Hollywood features so I am used to changing images around quite a bit, but it made me laugh when you said it doesn't really matter that the final image doesn't need to look like the original colorwise (my paraphrasing). There are arguments at present, with AI, and forever I suppose for photography in general, about what constitutes "a photograph" ... in particular the "authenticity of the images" and it is amazing to me how one side or t'uther justifies their particular vision on what are the parameters for image manipulation.
Wow! I was inspired by your tip on opening two files as layers in photoshop and using the brush tool and mask, to create one spectacular image and I’m pleased with my successful resulting new image, bringing a couple of my ‘ok’ images into another realm... I love learning new things and putting them into practice and feel we are all capable of learning new things, no matter what age, or what our level of photography we are at, or how long we’ve been capturing images. Thank you so much for your videos, Nigel.
Thanks Nigel . Hope the back gets better soon. For local adjustments in LR ...the adjustment brush is a go to for me ..probably more than grad and radial filters .
Hi Nigel..I am french and i love all your photos and knowledges. You are a big inspiration for me and hope to become professional one day like you are...Take care.
You rock. You are my favourite photographer. I am humbled and grateful for your help in my quest to be a great photographer some day. Your knowledge blows me away. Thank you thank you thank you.
Fantastic video Nigel! Absolutely crammed with useful stuff which you probably could have got away with spreading over numerous videos, kudos and thank you.
Great top level outline of key skills to master, along with the rationale to motivate investing the time and effort to master them, and links to further resources in the notes to boot. Thanks!
As an almost exclusive user of Capture One Pro, I would like to add that most of these techniques can be done in C1 as well. Only image stacking must be done elsewhere, for which I use Pixelmator. Great video. Cheers!
Thanks for these videos Nigel, they're always helpful and informative 😊 can't wait to have another go at editing my own foggy trees, thanks for the ideas!👍👌
Thanks for another cracking video - good stuff! Thanks also for the list of references to other topics, which is very useful. All the best to you & yours!
Excellent video. The Option/Alt key is so useful (in LR) that I've programmed it into the rocker switch for my Wacom Pen. I've used it like this for so long now that's it's almost a reflex action to press the rocker with my thumb during any step of the editing process.
Quick keyboard shortcuts for some of the stuff in Photoshop: you can click Shift+Backspace to bring up the fill options, and use content aware from there. Ctrl+D is deselect!
Love your images. This vlog had great tips but the real key and challenge for me is to have the vision to say change the color balance or to add the dehaze. To be able to foresee creatively is a strength you have.
That was such a useful and timely video, Nigel. You explained the range mask and importing 2 photo's into PS so well. I'm sitting down to try out your tips right now.
Greatly appreciate this well presented information. And bonus on the Lightroom short cuts in newsletter 🤗 All will help me learn and grow in this craft. Cheers 👌✨
Thank you so much for this video :) .. It`s just amazing to find such talented persons "by accident" . I`m trying just to start to get my work from just being a part-time-photographer to youtube in german, what makes it eben more difficult due to the limited audience, but seeing talented people like you just inspires me to keep going :)
Thank You for an amazing tutorial. Just realised that I will have a month of work, to really absorb it. To me and a game changer on the use of PS and LR, plus the coaching aspects of the tutorial are just mind blowing. Wow! Cheers
Fantastic video, Nigel! Thank you so much, whenever I feel lazy or demotivated with photography, all it takes is to see your videos to recharge my enthusiasm batteries again and go out and shoot. Since we're not on lockdown down here in Paraguay, I'll go to a botanical garden and put into practice your advice. 😀
Thanks for the video tips and for the opportunity to edit your photos! I'm having quite a good time, and it's a fun challenge to edit based on my perceptions of your intent in the image. Fun!
I hope you’re enjoying the editing! Give it a thumbs up 👍🏼
Will this work in Luminar AI?
Giving it a go, just submitted!
This is a great opportunity Nigel and very glad that this time you had one of the images in DNG format as my older version of Lightroom wouldn't process the NEF files 👍
From a learning perspective, would love to not only see the best edits, but maybe a few that were good except for 1 or 2 things that could have put it over the top.
Hi Nigel. I think this is a really useful exercise for people new to editing. However, I don't use Lightroom or Photoshop but Gimp with Nik plugins. Your raw filetypes aren't supported by Gimp so I am having to convert these to tiff first. Unfortunately this does seem to affect exposure/brightness so my starting images are not the same as your raw files . Is there any chance of sending out your files as tiffs (which seems to be supported by most post processing software) to start with or would these not be of high enough quality?
If you’ve been searching for years for a great educator this is your guy. Thank you for all the hard work you’re putting into this Nigel! Please make an online photography/editing/business course! Would love to support your work and continue learning from you.
Appreciate that
All great tips Nigel. Hope everyone is safe in lockdown over there.
"7 Skills You Can Learn When YOU'RE Not Out On A Mountain Shooting". Amazing video, as always.
I caught that too!
Nigel, what I love about watching your videos is that you demonstrate and teach. Not like a lot of other photographers on TH-cam that are a lot of talk. Yours are truly educational! Thank You!
Always get great value from your videos Nigel
It's getting to the point the we need to differentiate photography from digital art!
I agree. Blending two images together to get the waves you like, well, for me that's crossing the line between truth and a lie. You can dress up the truth but you cannot tell a lie.
Great info on editing, will be putting some of the tips into use when I convalesce from cancer treatment. Looking forward to that, the editing not the other!
Holy smokes!!! This is a game changer video for me, Nigel! Using a grad filter to cover entire image and then being able to use range masks is genius. This negates the use of PS in most cases unless preferred. Thank you for this
I gave this video the blue thumb of approval as soon as I saw the title. Watched it, left satisfied.
Great video, thanks Nigel!
Your videos are incredibly helpful
It’s always very special and enjoyable for me to listen and learn from you Nigel, I admit that I play around with my colours, I’m learning slowly, I’m allowed to go slow, I turned 75 a couple of weeks ago, I’ll put on my go faster boots. Keep up your teaching ideas Nigel. Thank you.
Thank you for demystifying many of the terms and techniques used by professionals. Also thank you for taking the time to offer alternatives for technical solutions. After all it is about the composition and impression of the photo and how to get there by any reasonably artistic means possible.
Your videos have excellent content and are enjoyable to watch. Thanks. Keep your channel going
This is such a fabulous video! So helpful and instructive. Thank you, Nigel!
Thanks Nigel
Thank you again, Nigel. You deliver my Sunday night inspiration and motivation.
Love you mann really helpful!!
My favorite software is C1 and Affinity Photo but these tips are very helpful anyway.
Awesome set of tips and strategies for using Lightroom and Photoshop more effectively for landscape photos! Thanks for sharing some of your inspirational raw photos to experiment with to help us put these tips into action!
Thank you very much. Just being able to see a RAW file from a photographer such as yourself which allows me to compare your starting point to my starting point has been invaluable.
Thanks Nigel. These are some fantastic tips. Helps to inspire my imagination. Look forward to this every week.
Love these editing videos Nigel they really do help novice editors like myself as well as the more experienced too....👍
Great work..simple but awesome ❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this Nigel, the Keystrokes really helped. Made notes.
very useful tips. thank you a lot!
great tips!! thank you!
Thanks for these helpful tips and the idea to hone these skills while stuck inside. Providing links to more detailed videos is a great idea!
Brilliant use of your lockdown time. Great teacher as always.
Great tips Nigel thank you! Beautiful photos as always!
Thank your for this great Ideas!
Thanks for sharing these tips Nigel!
Nigel - this is probably one of the best LR/ACR/PS tutorials that I’ve ever seen! Each idea is very clear and explained with detail. I learned more from this than from a lot of the courses that I purchased. Thanks for these wonderful tips. I will tell all my photo buddies to have a look.... stay well
Thanks so much
the technique with the dehaze is gooooooooooooooooooold, thank you so much! Already getting awesome results with this simple one.
Thanks a bunch for this. I'm a shoestring budget photographer with minimal gear and tips like this are a genuine help.
Thanks Nigel. I got excited when I saw the edit of the Blending of the 2 Wave photos. Also the lightroom tips were amazing. Appreciate. Hope you are not too frustrated with Lockdown. Time for learning!
Very helpful. Succinct, useful tips. Good place to start thanks
I work in VFX for Hollywood features so I am used to changing images around quite a bit, but it made me laugh when you said it doesn't really matter that the final image doesn't need to look like the original colorwise (my paraphrasing). There are arguments at present, with AI, and forever I suppose for photography in general, about what constitutes "a photograph" ... in particular the "authenticity of the images" and it is amazing to me how one side or t'uther justifies their particular vision on what are the parameters for image manipulation.
sorry to hear you guys keep getting lock downed. we here in Texas are free to do whatever we want. but I am here watching and learning
Thanks Nigel, always good learning!
Lock Down is almost over, but these are still great ideas!! Thank you, Nigel!
That second picture with the 2 trees is phenomenal!!
Thank you so much, This was very helpful and amazing video 👏👍👍
Wow! I was inspired by your tip on opening two files as layers in photoshop and using the brush tool and mask, to create one spectacular image and I’m pleased with my successful resulting new image, bringing a couple of my ‘ok’ images into another realm...
I love learning new things and putting them into practice and feel we are all capable of learning new things, no matter what age, or what our level of photography we are at, or how long we’ve been capturing images.
Thank you so much for your videos, Nigel.
Learning something in every video, thanks a lot!
Thanks Nigel . Hope the back gets better soon.
For local adjustments in LR ...the adjustment brush is a go to for me ..probably more than grad and radial filters .
Great video! I now know Photoshop has a photo merge feature and how to use it. Thank you! Subscribed!
Sunday coffee and your video is my routine now so thanks again
You always creat amazing knowledge videos
Really excited about all the different editings to come 😊
Cheers Nigel , thanks for your amazing tips and tricks. Stay safe.
Thanks Nige. This was really useful. Some I knew, some I didn't but all the tips were, in my opinion, important for anyone to know.
Love your channel, great tutorials and tips. Fan of your way of shooting .
Best regards from Norway
Hi Nigel..I am french and i love all your photos and knowledges. You are a big inspiration for me and hope to become professional one day like you are...Take care.
Excellent video Nigel!! The new masking range in LR is huge
As always, great tips. Always look forward to your videos. Hang in there during the lockdown.
You rock. You are my favourite photographer. I am humbled and grateful for your help in my quest to be a great photographer some day. Your knowledge blows me away. Thank you thank you thank you.
I know what I’m doing this week. Thanks Nigel.
Fantastic video Nigel! Absolutely crammed with useful stuff which you probably could have got away with spreading over numerous videos, kudos and thank you.
Great top level outline of key skills to master, along with the rationale to motivate investing the time and effort to master them, and links to further resources in the notes to boot. Thanks!
Just discovered you....so helpful!!
Many thanks Nigel for the tips
As an almost exclusive user of Capture One Pro, I would like to add that most of these techniques can be done in C1 as well. Only image stacking must be done elsewhere, for which I use Pixelmator.
Great video. Cheers!
Thanks for these videos Nigel, they're always helpful and informative 😊 can't wait to have another go at editing my own foggy trees, thanks for the ideas!👍👌
As always fully explained instructional video. Many thanks...
So many great tips, thank you!!
Thanks for another cracking video - good stuff! Thanks also for the list of references to other topics, which is very useful. All the best to you & yours!
Excellent video. The Option/Alt key is so useful (in LR) that I've programmed it into the rocker switch for my Wacom Pen. I've used it like this for so long now that's it's almost a reflex action to press the rocker with my thumb during any step of the editing process.
Saved this to go over whilst I’m recovering from surgery to keep me occupied
thanks for the info
Quick keyboard shortcuts for some of the stuff in Photoshop: you can click Shift+Backspace to bring up the fill options, and use content aware from there. Ctrl+D is deselect!
Very useful video Nigel. Thank you
Thank you Nigel, I learned something today. Stay safe. ~from Texas.
Love your images. This vlog had great tips but the real key and challenge for me is to have the vision to say change the color balance or to add the dehaze. To be able to foresee creatively is a strength you have.
⏲ Timestamps Lightroom:
#1 02:07 Color Styling
#2 06:27 Dehaze/Clarity
#3 07:50 Mask/Filters
#4 10:03 Keyboard Shortcuts
⏲ Timestamps Photoshop:
#5 13:34 Photoshop Masks
#6 18:17 Focus Stacking
#7 19:25 Removing Objects
Nigel, very helpful .. Tks for your help!
Your videos are very useful! Thanks for all the tips
Amazing tips to try! Thanks a lot.
Again a great informative video Nigel 👍
That was such a useful and timely video, Nigel. You explained the range mask and importing 2 photo's into PS so well. I'm sitting down to try out your tips right now.
Greatly appreciate this well presented information. And bonus on the Lightroom short cuts in newsletter 🤗 All will help me learn and grow in this craft. Cheers 👌✨
Wonderful information and advice. Many thanks.
Epic video man! Loved the way you showed off these tips without going into too much depth, but just the right amount of depth.
+1 sub
Thank you Nigel.. great stuff as usual
Thank you so much for this video :) .. It`s just amazing to find such talented persons "by accident" . I`m trying just to start to get my work from just being a part-time-photographer to youtube in german, what makes it eben more difficult due to the limited audience, but seeing talented people like you just inspires me to keep going :)
Thank You for an amazing tutorial. Just realised that I will have a month of work, to really absorb it. To me and a game changer on the use of PS and LR, plus the coaching aspects of the tutorial are just mind blowing. Wow! Cheers
Fantastic tips Nigel! I've been really wanted to add more of Photoshop editing into my flow
Very clear and helpful, will try your tips, thanks very much from locked down Wales!
Fab tips. Thanks. I'm definitely going to go over some previous shots and give them a tweak
Keep up the good work Nigel. Some invaluable information in your videos 👍
Some great tips in there Nigel, thank you
Love that sweater, Nigel!
Thanks!
Fantastic video, Nigel! Thank you so much, whenever I feel lazy or demotivated with photography, all it takes is to see your videos to recharge my enthusiasm batteries again and go out and shoot. Since we're not on lockdown down here in Paraguay, I'll go to a botanical garden and put into practice your advice. 😀
Great video, Nigel! Picked up a few new tricks to try during lockdown. Hope all is well 🙌
Thanks! I'm trying to learn more things in Adobe and lightroom since the lockdown. I actually learned a few things I didn't know with your video.
Thanks for the video tips and for the opportunity to edit your photos! I'm having quite a good time, and it's a fun challenge to edit based on my perceptions of your intent in the image. Fun!
Another excellent and informative video.
Wonderful video! I feel ready to give editing a real go now! 😊
Amazing Video, as always Nigel! This is actually bringing my editing to the next level, as you mentioned! Cheers!
Thanks alot . very helpful .
stay safe from Dublin