In this quickedit video I’m creating another glowing mushroom light painting photo. For the #PostProcessing I will be using Adobe #Lightroom Classic and Adobe #Photoshop CC 2019
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To create this image, I had to use two separate pictures: One base image and one image where I was holding a flashlight on top of the mushroom to make it appear to be glowing. For the basic raw adjustments of those two photos I used Lightroom while I used Photoshop to merge the pictures and do some final editing (also using the Nik Collection Plug in).
I started working on the base photo in Lightroom by activating the lens corrections and changing the camera profile to Adobe Standard. Since the base image is rather dark, this will help make it a bit brighter. I didn’t change the white balance as the colours looked good already. To further make the photo brighter I increased the highlights. This resulted in overexposed areas, but since those were in the bokeh in the background it didn’t really matter to me. Next, I increased the shadows carefully and also added some vibrance for more saturation.
I applied two radial filters: One was for the top of the mushroom where I applied some more texture and clarity which results in a sharper and more detailed mushroom, the other one was for everything around the mushroom. Here I dropped the texture and clarity to make the background smoother.
For the colour grading first I dropped the yellow and green hues all the way down, and this way getting rid of the green tones by making them more orange. Then, in the saturation tab I increased the orange and yellow saturation and reduced the blue ones. I still wanted to have some nice blue tones, so I used the split toning to apply a cold colour tone to the darker areas. This helps to make everything look more mysterious and works well with the colour of the glowing mushroom.
After applying all those Lightroom settings on the second photo I opened them in Photoshop to merge everything. But first, since the pictures weren’t aligned perfectly, I selected both layers and let Photoshop auto-align them (Edit – Auto-Align images). I applied a layer mask on the glowing mushroom layer and filled it with black (this will mask out everything of the glow image). Then I used a white brush to carefully paint back in the mushroom and this way make it appear to be glowing.
Once the merging was done, I wanted to work on the glow behind the mushroom. I created a new layer and switched it’s blending mode to hard light. Then I picked a slightly blue colour and used the brush again (with a low brush opacity) to paint in single spots over the bokeh in the background to create more glow.
Finally, I used the Nik Collection Plug in to slightly change the colours of the whole image (polarization filter) and apply more glow to the brighter areas of the image (Soft Focus Filter).
