Hey everyone, welcome to the second episode of our Edit Explorer series! In Edit Explorer, we dive deep into submitted photo edits, offering constructive feedback and valuable tips that can enhance your photo editing workflows and techniques. If you’re a member of ON1 Plus, you can submit your edited photos along with sidecar files for review. Today, we’ve randomly selected three submissions from the community to discuss editing techniques and inject new life into these images.
Photo #1 Seascape and Rocks:
Common issue: Applying detail and texture (i.e. Dynamic Contrast) to the entire photograph can make the image busy and create distractions in areas that should be soft.
Recommendation: Selectively apply the detail to specific areas either using AI masking such as Super Select AI (K) or manually with the masking brush (B) or the masking bug (M).
Photo #2 Elephant Scenery:
Common issue: Bright foregrounds can be distracting especially if the subject is darker and has more contrast.
Recommendation: Darken bright, distracting foregrounds with a local adjustment or by adding in contrast with a filter.
Photo #3 Church Interior:
Common issue: Removing the highlights from entirety of the image sometimes makes the image appear flat, too much removal can create a dull look – especially when paired with boosting shadow tones.
Recommendation: Remove highlights selectively with a local adjustment.
Thanks to everyone that submitted their images! Submit to the next Edit Explorer here —›
On April 2, 2024 at 6:31 am David Price wrote:
Hi Dylan
Thank you for this series. Some good examples of how to use Photo Raw to bring out the best in images. Also, it is good to remind us, that many development choices depend on personal taste, and that we won’t like and or agree with everyone else’s decisions. But, that we should then stand back and remind ourselves, that personal taste is not universal.
Best wishes David Price
On April 2, 2024 at 10:01 am Guillermo ve wrote:
Very useful video. Thanks to Dylan and those who contributed their photos!
On April 2, 2024 at 3:57 pm Linda Hamilton wrote:
Just wondering when using Brilliance AI with the prefferences set including nonoise what happens if you dicide to also use nonoice when editing your image. Does the image get a double wammy of no noise or is it simply adding adjustments to the initial adjustments made by Brilliance AI?
Thanks for the editing ideas, great help!
Linda
On April 3, 2024 at 1:01 pm PHILIP PODUSKA wrote:
Dylan, I really like your suggestions. One more thing I would have added to the church image is straightening. The image is just a few degrees tilted to the right. The bottom of the image shows the bottom of the left pillar slightly higher than the right. I viewed the image for several minutes wondering why there was this sense of irritation. Then I looked for clues and noticed the tilt.
On April 3, 2024 at 3:03 pm Jim Kok wrote:
Very beneficial with good examples on how to enhance. I really like the finished elephant and the very busy cathedral scene with application of the luminosity mask. Keep these tutorials coming!
On April 4, 2024 at 3:28 am ERvert Middelbeek wrote:
A reaction in the Dutch language gets somewhat mutulated. Next time my reaction will be in English. Thanks again Dylan and please continue the good and much appreciated work.
On April 4, 2024 at 8:54 am Robin Hatton wrote:
Daylan,
I think you missed the photographer’s main focus in the photo. I think her main point of interest was the white birds nesting on the foreground rocks. She probably didn’t have a telephoto lens with her, but shot the scene with what she had.
On April 4, 2024 at 11:38 am David Hamory wrote:
I would find it useful if the “as shot” image could be included along with the edited version.
On April 4, 2024 at 1:27 pm Bernd Palmer wrote:
I like the way you explain your edits by pointing out what you are looking for in the overall composition.
On April 4, 2024 at 4:50 pm Kenneth Sponsler wrote:
Dylan,
Very helpful and useful edits and recommendations. Could I make one suggestion for future installments? If you would hit the backslash key at the beginning of each photo discussion, we could see the overall effects of the submitter’s edits. Hitting backslash at the end shows the difference between the original and their edits plus yours.
In the church image, since you dimmed the sides with the reflective gradient, maybe the selective highlight recovery with the luminosity mask wasn’t needed? Useful to see how it’s done, though.
Ken
On April 4, 2024 at 5:35 pm Jean-Maurice Juge wrote:
Thank Dylan. I love the series. There are always some great tips. I am also wondering if there is a way to do the “Amdamski Effect” with On One. If so, I would love it if you could do one of great tutoring.
Thanks a lot and have a spectacular day 🙂
On April 12, 2024 at 8:07 am Bryce Born wrote:
Excellent!