One of the trees that has fallen at Ashenbank Woods near Cobham Kent.
I thought I would give you a guide into the processing I did on the above image. I knew in my mind I wanted to create a soft but saturated image of a fallen tree at Ashenbank Woods near Cobham. As I was adding a slight texture to my image, I knew I would be using Photoshop – so I broke down my workflow into three stages.
Lightroom Stage One
- Camera Calibration Panel
- Camera Landscape
- Lens Correction Panel
- Enabled Lens Profile
- Remove Chromatic Abberation
- Basic Panel
- Highlights -50
- Shadows +14
- Contrast 17
- Vibrance +19
- White Clipping -19
- Black Clipping -21
- Edit image in Photoshop
One of the trees that has fallen at Ashenbank Woods near Cobham Kent – After Lightroom Edits Stage One
Photoshop Stage One
- Duplicated Layer
- Added Texture – Overlay Blending Mode 100% (Courtesy of Kerstin Frank)
- Used Nik Color Efex Filter Plugin – to give a soft focus to the image.
- Photo Filter Adjustment Layer – with a layer mask so filter only affected trees
- Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer – again using same layer mask as Photo Filter Layer Mask – decreased density of mask
- Merged layers using SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+E
- Added surface Blur – Multiply Blending Mode 8%
- Merged layers using SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+E
- Made selection so only the outer edges were selected and duplicated this layer by CTROL+J
- Changed Blending Mode to Multiply with 24% opacity
- Added a light leak layer changed Blending Mode to Soft Light with 7% opacity
- Saved image which was imported back into Lightroom
One of the trees that has fallen at Ashenbank Woods near Cobham Kent – After Photoshop Stage One
Lightroom Stage Two
- Radial Filters
- Added 5 radial filters to certain parts of the images to lighten certain elements of the image – Used 0.60 Exposure
- Effects Panel
- Added Post-Crop Vignette of -24
- Basic Panel
- Changed Black Clipping to +31
- Contrast to +21
- Clarity to -21
One of the trees that has fallen at Ashenbank Woods near Cobham Kent – Final Image after Lightroom Stage Two
Most of the processing I could have achieved in Lightroom alone, using the adjustment brush but I knew I wanted to add a texture so I used a texture from my collections which is courtesy of Kerstin Frank who is on Flickr. If you are into textures, her work is superb.. I just love how she combines her textures with her images. A Great Artist.