#Remove yellow in aurora hdr 2018 full

One of the things I always try to do is to 'break the grade' so that all surfaces are light and dark.

Original image was very flat because it was evenly lit. The look I found was the old Ansel Adams interior look or the Hitchcock look. A control you don't have simply using a layer mask and a black or white brush. The advantage is you have more leeway as you can control the micro exposures of shadow, mid-tone, and highlights. Most of the dodging and burning completed using dodging and burning tools. dodging and burning tool preferred to anything else. In general brush is preferred to radial circle, and in PS. Brush used to bring up all the dark areas so always some detail in the shadow areas and soft glows around other areas such as the couch. Radial circle to darken the outside patio, different approach from the colour version. Used the brush in LR extensively especially on the curtains. Final processing was sent to Silver Efex Pro, then back to LR, and finally in PS. I kept it light by using LR to continually increase the shadows while trying to preserve details in the highlights.

#Remove yellow in aurora hdr 2018 full

I prefer the black and white version due to the many different textures and the full range of shades from black to white. Lesson learned, always work on a images over at least a two day period. Next morning brightened the image and cropped. This is a trick I used to use with the dodging tool, but the layer mask approach works best because you can change the luminosity of the layer. If still too contrasty, use layer mask and use contrast control, or simply use a white brush and paint over entire building. When too contrasting export to LR and bring up the blacks. Also, did some major cropping to make the image more panoramic. The images suffered from no centre point of focus, that is the reason why I placed the bright light at the very top and continued with the extravagant lighting. To date probably the most sophisticated image. Painted the trees with white paint brush. Gradient and vignetting added to the entire image in LR. In the end also used circle in top centre of building.

So I brushed the image with white paint brush. Towards the end I still wasn't happy the image was too contrasty.

Used several methods, masks, then dodging and burning tools. Spent a great deal of time breaking the grade on all the buildings starting in LR then to PS. Used the clarity to accentuate sky clouds. Started again importing in PS and making the sky white, and replaced the sky with a pre-shot sky with clouds. Kept it colour to the last minute then exported as colour and changed to bw in PS. It is somewhat stilted as I started over at least three times.īegan in colour and tried playing with the sky, gradient filters, etc. When I think of the 4 hours it took to process this image, I can't help but think of the hours spent playing pinball. That is the equivalent of the kitchen sink, no rules, no strategy, it either worked or it didn't. My friend and I would play, what we coined as, 'hack and slash'.