From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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885 Developing your over-under in Camera Raw

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to take that fake over/under shot that we created in Photoshop and we're going to develop it to great effect inside Camera Raw. All right, so the first thing we need to do is take all of the layers that we've created so far and merge them onto a new layer. And you do that by pressing Mash Your Fist + E. So, Control + Shift + Alt + E here on the PC, or Command + Shift + Option + E on a Mac. And now I'll just go ahead and rename this layer Merge, so I know where it came from. Now, in the next step we'll apply the Camera Raw filter. If you want to apply it as an editable smart filter, then armed with your rectangular marquee tool up here at the top of the tool box, you want to right-click inside the image window and choose Convert to Smart Object. The problem is that that's going to more than double the file size. And so I'm going to go ahead and skip that step. And I'll move directly to the Filter menu and choose Camera Raw Filter in order to permanently modify the pixels on this layer. All right, that's going to bring up the Camera Raw plugin. I've got this set to the full screen mode, so I have as much room to work as possible. And I'm going to scroll down to Basic panel here, and click inside the Shadows value and take it up just a little bit to plus 20 to bring out some of the shadow detail inside the image. I also want to bring out some of the detail in the animal's fur. So I'm going to click in the Texture value and I'll press Shift + Up Arrow a total of five times in order to increase that value to plus 50. That's not only bringing out that medium frequency texture, but it's also increasing the color noise. We'll take care of that problem in just a moment after we make it even worse by tabbing down to the Vibrance value and taking it up to plus 80. And then I'll take the Saturation value up to plus 50. So these are not subtle modifications. But that does help us to see this outrageous amount of color noise right here. So I'll go ahead and switch to the Detail panel. And I will click inside the Color value. And I will take it up to plus 50 in order to reduce the color noise. And you can see that eliminates those color aberrations quite nicely. All right, now I'm going to go ahead and scroll up to one of these sea lion faces right here. And I'm going to crank the Sharpening amount value here up to its maximum of 150. And then I'll tab down to the Detail value and set it to zero, so that we're not sharpening the noise. And you may notice, if you look closely at this image, that it's a bit crooked. You can see that the horizon right here is at an angle. But I think that helps to contribute to the chaos of the scene. After all, this front-most sea lion is so close to me that part of his nose is cut off. All right, so I'll just go ahead and press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on a Mac in order to zoom out. And now I want to adjust some of the colors on a color-by-color basis. So I'll go ahead and switch to the HSL adjustments panel right here. And then I'll grab my Targeted Adjustment tool, which you can get by pressing the T key. And assuming that the Hue tab is active, then you could just go ahead and drag inside areas in order to change their hues. So, for example, if I drag inside of the sea lion's skin down here, then I'm going to reduce the yellows value, ultimately to negative 40. And I'm going to take the oranges value down to negative 10 as well. And that's going to warm things up nicely. So notice, we're moving the yellows toward orange, and the oranges toward red ever so slightly. And now I'm going to drag inside this region, to the right this time around, in order to take the aquas value, you can see that value over there on the right-hand side of the screen, to, ultimately, plus 80. I'm not looking to make the blues purple, however. So I'll go ahead and take that blues value back down to zero like so. All right, now I'm going to bring out some of the detail in the sky. So I'll switch to the Luminance tab and I'll drag inside these blues right here, to the left this time around, in order to take the blues value down to negative 30. I'm going to reset that aquas value to zero. And then I'll Shift + Tab my way up to the oranges value, and take it up to plus 10. And then I'll tab to the yellows value and take it up to plus 50, let's say, in order to increase the brightness of the sea lion's skin. And at this point I'm done. So I'll just go ahead and click OK in order to accept my changes. All right, just so we can see what we've accomplished here, I'll press Shift + F to switch to the full screen mode. And I'll zoom on in as well. And so here's the drab version of the layered composition that we saw at the outset of the movie. And here is the dramatically enhanced image, thanks to our ability to modify hues and luminance levels on a color-by-color basis inside Camera Raw.

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