425 Developing a dark and stormy photo in Photoshop

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week we're going to take this hum-drum snapshot…that I captured of the exterior…of the York Minster in England,…and we're going to turn it into…this much more evocative, dark and stormy photograph…using a combination of Photoshop and Camera Raw.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, just so you have a chance…to see things on screen,…here's the undeveloped version…of this unremarkable photograph.…Pictured here as a JPEG fire,…and here is the more dramatic, dark and stormy effect.…

First thing we're going to do, again here inside Photoshop,…is go up to the File menu and choose Open In Smart Object,…and then, if you're working along with me,…go ahead and locate this file York Minster.dng,…which is the raw image file…that's been converted to the digital negative format,…and then I'll go ahead and click in the open button…in order to open the image automatically…here inside Camera Raw.…Now I'm going to start with some basic adjustments.…