Lessons
Class Introduction: What is Light Painting?
03:45 2Camera Considerations
16:18 3Camera Settings and Initial Exposures
09:26 4Light Painting Accessories
04:05 5The Color of Light
05:21 6Focusing in the Dark
03:13 7Light Painting Techniques
08:30 8Lightroom: Basic Panel
14:14Lightroom: Presence Panel Adjustments
06:05 10Lightroom: Hue, Saturation, Luminance
05:17 11Lightroom: Local Adjustments
16:46 12From Lightroom to Photoshop
11:55 13Photoshop: Lighten Blending Mode
04:31 14Photoshop: Star Stacking
03:17 15Photoshop: Layer Opacity
03:25 16Photoshop: Selection and Masks
05:55 17Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
05:46Lesson Info
Photoshop: Layer Opacity
Let's just talk about what I did here. Out in the field that, uh uh, gasworks, um, What I wanted to do is I wanted to get a shot of the skyline, so we talked about having a really nice background. We talked about accessibility. It's really easy for me to get in here and paint the fence and the grass and the line here, Um and we've got texture. Right, So we've got nice texture in the in the walk here. We've got texture in the fence line, and so it's kind of got everything I want for, uh uh for a good lay pinning. Seen. Now, what I did is I took several different shots. So in this shot, what I did was I walked along the path and put my flashlight up here and kind of got the barbed wire illuminated. So I'm feeling that looking pretty good now for this next shot. What I did was I stood back here and I walked towards the camera. Now, remember, as you're walking towards the camera, I'm holding that flashlight and putting my hand in front of the flashlight so the camera can not see that late ...
coming towards it. But I also need to get a low camera angle, and that's going to give us that texture. I mean, this is one of the more difficult things to Dio when you're light painting. And then what I did in another exposure was I went over here off camera, right? And I painted the grass back again at a low camera angle to try to get all of that ah texture in there. Then in this final photograph here, and we could just actually get rid of these two. Um, then in this final photograph here, I walked around to the camera left and through my flashlight back on the back side of the fence just to give it some some brightness here. So it wasn't pure black like it wasn't all these photographs. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take thes four images, and I'm going to again open them into Photoshopped as layers so that I can change the lighten, the blending moto lighten, and then start working with it. So let's check it out. Uh, grab those four images and go to photo at it in open as layers in photo shop So with all of the eyeballs on the images, click on the top layer shift, click on the bottom layer and simply Let's change this blending mode to lighten and about a being You got it, folks. That's how easy it can be. So painted four different exposures here and that quickly I can blend them all together in one image. But the other cool thing is that I could go back to my opacity again. Maybe I feel this grass is too bright. Well, let me find the grass layer. I'm gonna find the grass layer of just by clicking on these eyeballs on and off. Okay, this is the grass layer. So I click the eyeball off and that goes back to darkness so I can click on that layer and change the opacity. If I wanted the grass a little darker or if I wanted a little brighter, I could say, you know, maybe a painted too much brightness on the, uh on the on the walkway here, so I'll find the walkway shot. All right, quick care. It's not that one. It's not that one. It's that one. Okay, so I'm gonna click on that layer to activate that layer and pull that opacity back a little bit just to darken it. And so, in this way you could very much go through each layer, change its opacity and even mask things out to make alterations.
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