How to start the later stage of photography?

In the later stage of photography, the visual effect of the original picture can be enhanced, and the original picture can be creatively changed, which can easily make people curious and curious in the later stage.

Then I study hard at PS. LR.CR and AE software, tossing for a long time, until I exhausted all the excitement and didn't want to play.

Because the knowledge of learning is too scattered, there is no real understanding of the principles behind it, and psychology is not systematic. Optics is a bit one-sided technology, and it still depends on obscurity and confusion in the later stage, so it is very tired.

How to understand later?

1. In the later period, the visual effect was strengthened, not changed.

For example, in the portrait of the later period, you can grind off the moles and wrinkles on her face, remove the black and add white, instead of turning her into a snake face, and even she can't recognize herself. This is to change the essence of the original picture, and it will not work.

2. The later stage is the total step of the total score.

The total score is always adjusted in three steps: first, the overall adjustment, then the local adjustment, and finally the overall style adjustment.

Overall adjustment: including exposure balance and color balance, so that the picture is in an unclear state and the operating space behind it is enlarged.

Local adjustment: this emphasizes the adjustment of the subject. The exposure and color of the subject should be in contrast with the companion and the environment, so as to make the primary and secondary priorities clear.

Style adjustment: including bright tone, dark tone and gray tone, it is also the combination of light and shade of exposure and shade of color, highlighting different styles.

Through these simple descriptions, we will find that exposure and color are actually adjusted later, first exposure, then color.

Examples of the steps of color matching in the later stage

I understand that the later stage is the total step of the total score. Let's take a picture and try to adjust it.

Phoebe, a river in the forest, is a very ordinary photo. If I give it to you later, what kind of feelings do you want to show?

I must feel gloomy in such a dense forest, but I can't feel it in the photo, so take it out.

The dark tone suppression effect after adjustment.

1. Overall tone exposure and color

Analysis: There is no obvious dead white and black exposure in the photo, which is relatively balanced. The color is green, especially the water is greener than the leaves, which will be a little scary. Keep it for now, because it will feel strange in the end, so fine-tune it first.

Open the mobile phone app and boldly retouch the picture (I suggest you use the mobile phone software to color more, so as to adjust it at any time)

Strengthen the contrast in the light effect tool to make it more transparent.

In HSL, yellow turns to green, and green turns to cyan, which reduces saturation and lightness, and unifies into dark green, which is colder.

2. Local adjustment

Analysis: The water level in the picture is not obvious enough, and it is peaceful and gloomy.

Select the eyedropper tool in the local tool to absorb the color information of highlights and shadows on the water surface, and adjust the brightness and color temperature respectively. Shadows are dimmed in blue and highlights are brightened in orange.

At this time, the color forms a strong contrast with the light and shade, and the layers are rich, which also aggravates the cool atmosphere.

3. Overall style adjustment

The highlight in the picture is near the water surface, so I only highlight this highlight, and everything else is dimmed, and I want a very depressed dark tone.

Use the dark corner tool to darken the surroundings again, and move the center of the dark corner to the bright part of the nearby water surface.

Find the glare in the layer tool and add a downward light. The contrast between light and shade is particularly obvious.

In the Tone tool, add a little blue to highlight to make it transparent, and add a little blue to shadow to make the picture colder.

The final effect is completed.

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Late color matching is a subjective behavior, there is no certain standard, and the color you adjust is different every time.

But there must be a similar idea, that is, the total score should be adjusted to avoid confusion.

I hope the answer is helpful to you, thank you!