Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
Lesson 38 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
Lesson 38 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Lesson Info
38. Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
I want to go in and focus on the flowers before we move on. And I want to really bring out the color of the flowers in the dark areas. So I'm going to select wherever there is a flower that I want to see a little bit more of. Just like that. And feather, let's say 50 pixels and above everything. So this curve adjustment is not gonna be pinned down. I'm just making that area brighter, so we're just seeing a little bit more detail there. I also noticed that there are these windows. I actually really like this, this glare that's happening on the helmet. But I wanna get rid of the windows. So that's gonna be the last step to clean up this image before we take sort of a pullback view and look at how we've done. Okay, So let's go in with our clone stamp tool and working with a small brush. I'm just going to try to get the most neutral area here. I'm even gonna take my hardness all the way down the most neutral area to just slowly get rid of anything identifiable as a window because I don't w...
ant anyone to look at this print and think, Oh, they were in a studio. That's not really the look that I'm going for. So I'm gonna try to fix it as much as I can, uh, in a short period of time, which might be quite challenging because this is a lot of intricate, um, work with clones stamping here. So maybe I'll do that later. Pretend it's gone. It will be. We'll get rid of those. Eventually. Let's take a zoomed out look. Okay, It's funny because as you edit, you may notice that you think that you've done something really extreme. But really you haven't You think that you've done something like, whoa, that was too much. And that's how I thought with the contrast, I thought, Whoa, she's too bright. Whoa, this is too much. Now I think it looks quite flat. So I'm gonna go in and add by clicking on my lasso tool I'm gonna add just selecting where I want to see there be more light right through that area. Feather will do 500 pixels and go back up. So we're affecting every layer. Okay, And Brighton and contrast, Great and might even try from the mid tones a little bit more. Okay, I really like how that's looking. I think it looks so evocative and really matches the Siris in tone right now. And I'm gonna have to check it against the other images because that's how we edit for a Siri's. So if I look at this, I'm gonna hit, save, I wanna pull up the images and do they match? So I just kind of going back and forth, back and forth. Does it match? Does it match? So the colors work, and I think that in general they dio I think that they're looking quite nice. It needs more finesse. I'm gonna probably play with the colors to make them slightly more neutral. But in general, I think this fits in great to the Samsara Siri's. So I'm going to move on to the second Samsara image
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark