Lamborghini LP670-4 SV Photo Post Processing in Photoshop CS4 **High Key**

[kamek02]

This helps one to appreciate how much work actually goes into a professional car photo.

Any chance you'll be adding a video walk-through on your process? Maybe one for working with natural lighting, and one for working with strobes?

Thanks for these!

[hellenic300]

haha at 1:29 i got photoshop CS5 and instead of using the clone tool all you do it bush over it with this new tool and it does it perfectly and automatically for you

[douwebaekelandt]

Sorry mate, but I like the original better..

[SpotterGijs]

Wow, great work at this photo! Many things I recognize (because I do it myself too), but still you're a master at photoshop!

[D0D0BiirD]

how do you make the colour so vibrant in 0:33? Amazing!

[craig1377]

How the hell are we supposed to learn how to do that, it is faaaaaaaaaaar to fast!!

[hobbygirl1]

Maybe it is me...I would loved to have sound.

[phoebus00]

At the very end had he wanted to adjust the intensity of that background fade, but maintained the cloning, he would have once again had to retrace the car. The amount of layers is not important, but the fact that there are only 2 at the very end is not a good sign. Just think of every photoshop file as one you might have to pass along to another designer to edit, and you'll become great at it.

[phoebus00]

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to detract from his talent, or even outcome, just trying to help him speed things up and learn at the same time. How many times did he have to retrace his selection? Why wasn't the car's selection just saved as a channel? I'm not debating that the image was destroyed, I'm arguing that the modifications destroyed, essentially flattened.

[phoebus00]

Although it turned out fine, the final outcome is irrelevant to me. The way you're using layers and masks is incorrect, and in some cases rendered pointless. I know you're self taught, so I might suggest brushing up on adjustment layers and channels. In general this file should have many more layers, and you should never have to flatten the file. Think of it like this... you want to be able to adjust the intensity of any edit you've done. You want the edits to be non-destructive to the original.

[iheartapplecola]

So, ...you're saying there's a right way, and a wrong way to use photoshop? ...I've been using PS since version 1.0 and the amount of layers used is completely irrelevant, ..sure it may be a little destructive, but i'm sure there's a copy of the file untouched that can be pulled back in, but each step performed here appeared to be confident and deliberate.

[phoebus00]

@iheartapplecola @iheartapplecola Although confident and deliberate, it's also highly inefficient. There is no right and wrong way, but since I'm talking about his work flow, there is most definitely a "professional" and an "amateur" way to work, regardless of if you touch up images for Leo Burnett or your local highschool.

[camarogod93]

That's not too bad if you got a gig working for a AB.

But as much as I am a car guy, I wasn't pleased with the end result. Not that it wasn't good, I just think the photo itself was good before the over exposed background. But in this case you were making the car 'pop' off the page. And mission accomplished.

I really like how you cleaned up. With the building and foreground, that came out nicely. I hate it when I miss the 'random' clone and you can see the original area that was used.

[cri3047]

wat exactly are u doin, just bringing out more orange out of the car right? and how do u do it because there is no steps it just really quick

thanks in advance

[Grey07Honda]

Damn man good shit.  I've tried photo editing, and I've failed epically lol. Your photo looks great tho, good job on it you made it look easy.

[quadrangleman]

It's all good. You'll learn more from just screwing around like this than from any tutorial. As you get better, you'll also learn that less photoshop is usually better as far as touchups go. Keep at it.

[GFWilliamsnet]

haha cheers mate!

Normally I don't spend long at all as I have tight deadlines for clients

[GFWilliamsnet]

Not pro at all - I'm a 17 year old student and was just playing and seeing what does what. It's a learning process.

[quadrangleman]

hahaha, this is a very excellent video you posted of how much time you can waste in photoshop to make a good picture look terrible. Oh, and FYI, you can save selection paths and load them later so that you don't have to keep re-lassoing that spoiler. The More You Know™

[GFWilliamsnet]

I know it looks worse than before - I was having an experiment. I'm no pro at retouching, but I do get people travelling long distances because of my photography.

[duraiden]

The original photo looks better in pretty much every way, in my opinion.

[GFWilliamsnet]

I agree - I was just experimenting.

Also, where is this posted - I've suddenly had a lot of interest in the video and would be interested to read what you guys have been discussing about it!

[ChucklesKnuckles]

First post: (You'll have to change "DOT" to a period, and add a period and "html" to the end of the URL.)

carpicturesDOTcom/vehicle/10C7­A530231870

[ChucklesKnuckles]

But the big spike in interest probably came as a result of a story on AOL, which contained the link to the first URL. The AOL URL is very long, and I can't seem to change enough of it to make it work in the YouTube comment field.

[GFWilliamsnet]

Could you please just pm it to me.

Thanks!

[conory]

@GFWilliamsnet Its also on the Photoshop Facebook page. :-)

[videosean]

@GFWilliamsnet facebook  com Photoshop March 31 at 12:22pm

[pixelrender]

Very interesting. Can you please provide some high res jpg's.