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Enhancing Night and Low-Light Photos with Photoshop

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe Photoshop Courses Night Photography Courses HDR Photography Courses Noise Reduction Courses Low-Light Photography Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to use Camera Raw and Photoshop to make your night and low-light photos look their best. Explore the basics like noise reduction, as well as more advanced techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Enhancing your night photography skills
  • What you should know
1. General Enhancements in Lightroom or Camera Raw
  • Working with Camera Raw from Bridge
  • Set overall tonal balance
  • Use neutral guides to set white balance
  • Color balance for creative effect
  • Use Dehaze on night photos
  • Removing chromatic aberration
  • Fine-tune with local adjustments
  • Synchronize settings to multiple files
2. Noise Reduction
  • How exposure affects noise levels
  • Camera Raw for noise reduction
  • Open a raw file as a Smart Object
  • The Reduce Noise filter
  • Photoshop Dust & Scratches filter
3. Using Photoshop and Camera Raw for HDR Night Shots
  • Merge to HDR in Camera Raw
  • Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop
  • Toning 32-bit HDR files in Camera Raw
  • Saving 32-bit HDR files in Photoshop
4. Using Layers to Enhance Night Exposures
  • Layer stacking to blend lighter areas
  • Aligning misaligned layers
  • Combine exposures with a layer mask
  • Refine with creative adjustments
5. Star Photography Post-Processing
  • Retouching airplane light trails
  • Exposure stacking to create star trails
  • Create a star comet effect
  • Create a luminosity mask
  • Luminosity masks for the Milky Way
  • Making a constellation more visible
  • Removing blurry stars
  • Adding new stars
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Seán Duggan

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