In this quickedit video I‘m creating another glowing mushroom photomanipulation using Adobe #Lightroom Classic and Adobe #Photoshop CC 2019 for the #Editing.
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For this photo I shot several images: The base image (without glow) 4 times with different focus points for focus stacking later in Photoshop (I have to admit I did mess this up a little bit as the mushroom isn’t sharp from front to back) and multiple photos to make the mushroom appear to be glowing by holding a flashlight close to it’s top. My goal was to create an image with rather muted colours and overall make the picture a lot darker to make the glow appear to be brighter. Most of the editing was done in Adobe Lightroom Classic, while I used Adobe Photoshop for focus stacking, blending and some minor editing.
1. Basic raw adjustments
Before I start: I edited one of my base images and then synchronised the settings with all the other photos.
First, I changed the camera profile to Adobe Standard, this will reduce the contrast by making darker areas slightly brighter. Then, as I wanted to have a dark, gloomy image the next step was to drop the exposure to make everything darker. Also, I decreased the highlights but increased the shadows and whites slightly.
2. Local Adjustments
I started working on the right side of the photo. Here isn’t much going on but to further make the background smoother I dragged a graduated filter over the right side and decreased the texture, clarity and exposure which will help bring more attention to the mushroom.
Next, I added a radial filter for the mushroom itself. Since I wanted it to be extra sharp and detailed, I increased the texture and clarity a lot. Another radial filter was added over the mushroom, but this time the outside will be affected by it. I wanted to add a little bit of fake vignetting, so I dropped the exposure, as well as the texture and clarity.
3. Colour Grading
The original shot had a lot of strong green tones, which I personally don’t like to have in the final photo. So first I dropped the green hue, giving those tones a warmer colour and also dropped the yellow hue slightly. Now the photo was still a bit to saturated, so I dropped the green and yellow saturation carefully. I used the split toning to apply a cold colour tone to the shadows. Finally, I headed to the calibration tab where I played around with the red, green and blue primary settings.
4. Photoshop
After synchronising all the photos in Lightroom I opened them in Photoshop. First, I aligned all the images so the mushroom on every layer overlaps perfectly (Edit Auto-Align Layer). After that I did the focus stacking on the base images (Edit Auto-Blend layers).
Then it was time to add the glow effect to the base images. With the base image at the bottom of the layers panel I applied a layer mask to the glowing mushroom layers above and inverted the layer mask (CTRL + I) so it’s filled with black. Now I grabbed the brush tool, set the foreground colour to white and carefully painted over the mushroom on the layer masks to reveal the glow effect.
