Edit food with a PRO photographer

In todays video I show you how to edit food photographs in Capture One, although the exact same principles apply if you are using Adobe Lightroom or any other raw editing software.
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[@geranraath]

Such a great video! Thanks Scott.

[@Vlad_a450]

I finally found were this kind of aesthetics comes from. It is from the 50s. Actually I had a book on food that looked exactly as if you were the author of all the pictures in it. It is not about good or bad. It is just style identification. I think it is very close to the 50s.

[@videoyoplait]

I just learnt about the little checkbox under the colours selection. It helps you isolate the colours. Love it because I am a bit colour blind and can't see subtle differences between certain colours.

[@happysunshinemedia7092]

I was really looking forward to the slurp to be included in the audio haha

[@pauldarville3843]

Very informative, Thanks!

[@kimchikidbear]

Has a hobbiest Food Photographer I’m very thankful for this

[@matrixphotodesign]

Potato ,Patato, lets call the whole thing off ( LOL )

[@TinHouseStudioUK]

pretty much how my day is going

[@matthewwordell1352]

Just curious - what monitor do you use for editing?

[@Sonybo100]

From what I know a levels slider is possible in photoshop, but I haven't found it in Lightroom, does that mean the equivalent would be working with the tone curve? Because I have memory that you don't mess around with it in some of your Lightroom workflows, there you work with the normal exposure panel (highlights,shadows,white,black,etc)

[@Popa_Bogdan_Light_Drawing]

thank you!

[@alex199273]

The perfect number to say those magical words 4:20 #AlrightAlrightAlright

[@Hikups]

Aah , watched it all the way to see you apply grain, then you didn't. What are your recommendations for that?

[@user-dk9cy1eg9p]

After your adjustments the picture looks a little distorted

[@brianstalter6569]

Scott - from what I have read online today, TIFF file format is the industry standard for editing in Photoshop (vs. PSD). Does that seem to be the case in your line of work? I didn't know this and have been going with PSDs because I didn't know any different. Is there any other industry standards related to file formats/color space that may be common knowledge to some but not to everyone? I think I'll be going back through my recent PSD to change the format - I just wish I had known long ago.

[@TinHouseStudioUK]

To be honest its a case by case situation. Sometimes wits PSD (more often PSB) for the full workflow, othertimes TIFF. Really does vary

[@kenbot77]

A layered TIF file will be a smaller file size than a layered PSD (duplicate a file to test). Therefore, most of my WIP files for photoshop retouching are TIF (as this will save HDD/SSD/Backup/Dropbox space at every stage). You may need to save some layered files as PSD, for instance… I was just doing a layout in Adobe InDesign, and InDesign (for some reason) would not display the deep-etched layered TIFs correctly (with transparent background, and forced solid white BG instead), and I had to manually go and re-save all of those WIP layered photo files again as PSD instead (and in turn InDesign displayed them correctly, transparent BG). And as mentioned, if you end up doing a heap of layers and retouching work on a high resolution photo, then you maybe have to save those as PSB files instead. But yes, I’ve found that using TIFs for my main working files (layered for WIP, or flattened for delivery), work almost as identical to PSDs in 98% of cases, but can save a noticeable amount of space over a heap of jobs together, so that’s what I use. Another thing to note, and this can be used either way… From the point of view of other people/teams/clients etc that you’re working with/for… You pretty much need Photoshop to open or even view sometimes a PSD file… but a heap of other programs can open/view/print/convert a TIF… So, yeah, you may want (or not want) others to be able to see/view/make selections/critique before ready/etc those WIP photos… so PSD or TIF can also play a part there too.

[@brianstalter6569]

@@kenbot77 thanks for sharing some more information on the subject. Based on what you shared I think TIFFs will be the way forward for me. I mostly work on portraits and most of my layers are adjustment layers - with the occasional use of high frequency separation. Saving space is always a plus. lol I know storage is getting cheaper and cheaper but if I can prolong the storage I already have - that's a win for me.

[@hishamalyahmedi1366]

@@brianstalter6569 what's the difference if i use psd or tiffs for my work?

[@brianstalter6569]

@@hishamalyahmedi1366 mostly just different file formats - but TIFFs can be used more easily than PSDs by other software - and many print services allow you to send them TIFF files. I have read (but not confirmed) that TIFFs can save above 2GB whereas PSD limit at 2GB before having to use PSB format.

[@Cuchulain-rk1kw]

Is it wrong to say that it’s making me hungry?? #childofthe70s