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Creating magic and mood

Creating magic and mood

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Creating magic and mood

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- [Voiceover] Hello friends, my name is Chris Orwig, and welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we will take a look at how we can use Lightroom and Photoshop in order to add some magic and beauty to this photograph. This is a picture of one of my daughter's friends here with her horse on the beach in our town, and what I want to do with this picture is I want to fix exposure issues and color first. So here in Lightroom, I'm the Basic panel. And one of the things that I do when I look at a photograph is I ask myself, does it really match how I felt? And it actually doesn't, because it's a little bit too dull. So I'm increasing exposure and contrast. I like what that does to color, but she right here, she's a little bit too dark. So I'm going to bring up my shadows, 'cause she's in the shadow. This should be really bright, and airy, and beautiful. And then maybe a little bit more exposure. And then maybe a touch more contrast. And my highlights have gotten a little bit…

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