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Improving a landscape

Improving a landscape

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Improving a landscape

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- [Chris] Hello friends, this is Chris Orwig. Welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we'll look at how we can improve this landscape photograph using Lightroom, and this is a picture that obviously has a person in it as well. This was captured during one of my other live action courses where we went out on location, and looked at how we could capture portraits within a landscape. And one of the things that I want to do here with this image is improve the overall exposure, the color, and retouch away a few little problem areas. Now, if you look at the problems areas, you can see we have an oil rig off here and a little blue flag in the foreground. So I'm going to get rid of those areas and then improve the overall color and tone. And sometimes I'll actually start with some of these nagging little things. I'll just paint over a little problem area, and I'll get rid of them really quickly, just so that I can move ahead and get on to the good stuff. So here I'm going to do…

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