How I Edit Photos Now vs When I Was a Beginner (Lessons Learned for Quality Landscapes)

[@lordperilous]

I don't see a lot of photographers go back and compare old techniques and images to new ones. Obviously in some cases technology makes it better (or easier), but looking back I realize I made bad choices based on my current experience. I'd love to see more examples of how you did it before vs now. Great video!

[@raleighmeade9104]

What a mean trick! You got us all energized with your boundless and contagious enthusiasm, and then you disappear for MONTHS!! Hopefully, you are doing well and having great photoshoots somewhere, but just know we have noticed your absence. We look forward to your return!!

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Awesome insights. Now I’m going to go take the same critical eye to my work over the years and see if I can speed up the learning curve

[@jimjames4252]

Excellent video that helps me look at my own editing in a different light.

[@rlfisher]

Masterclass! I've found it quite revealing to sometimes go back to my older images and processing techniques and see what I can do now. More and more it's about local adjustments.

[@guitargeorge6423]

Sometimes I give myself the Cripps

[@soniad3241]

Thank you for this informative and well explained video. It has made me think more closely about Lightroom. I just wish it processed Fuji raw files.

[@davemacias3865]

This is very informative, now I will have a little more to play around with in Lightroom and Photoshop. Thank you.

[@Kayahdog]

Thanks Joshua, very well done. As we all have grown as photographers over the years, along with having better equipment and editing techniques, this reinforces the fact that one can ‘go back’ and revisit earlier images to improve them. By using these new editing approaches as you’ve illustrated, I’ve often found some average images can be made much more powerful with this newly applied knowledge and technology. Appreciate your detailed approach in explaining your workflow...thanks!

[@eleojay401]

Super videos! Greetings from Norway

[@ScotTheGr8]

Noticed your old PS file was in 8 bits. That’s pretty impactful when editing as well. Depending on how far you push it, maybe more so.

[@TomMannHome]

You shouldn’t attribute the banding & other artifacts you pointed out to working in PS’s layers. Such artifacts are par for the course working at 8 bits per channel compared to working at the 12 or 14 bits per channel processing of raw files in LR or ACR.

[@ScotTheGr8]

@@TomMannHome. Concur. The 12 or 14 bits of a larger dynamic ranged raw or a 16 bit finer quantization of a normal image.

[@judyboyd9530]

Very informative, thank you 😊

[@STACYBURK]

Great video! Just found your channel. I use DXO Photolab 5 with the NiK Collection to edit and the DXO PureRAW2 engine to process my raw photos into DNG's. I was wondering if you can basically do the same editing you're doing in Lightroom in DXO Photolab 5 and with the same quality? Also, what's your opinion on the ON1 RAW photo editor?

[@TheGrud69]

Evening josh,I've seen you using a pen stylus, please could you tell me the make and model. As after a op I can't hold a mouse very well, especially for editing thanks Anthony

[@nh-ss5pw]

Hope you can make back to NZ one day soon white cloud.

[@_JeffMart]

Thanks for the video! I feel like there is maybe some confusion on the Photoshop editing being destructive. I don't think PS editing has to be destructive, just like lightroom. Maybe I'm confused about how Photoshop handles files but I'm pretty sure as long as you use adjustment layers on top of your base image layer that's not destructive. You can go back and adjust the strength and settings of those layers later, as well as the layer's mask. Anyway great video and it is really nice how powerful LR has become as an all in one tool and you're definitely showing that well!

[@justinrichardson3864]

Yeah, a main benefit of Photoshop is being able to go back and adjust your various layers, which can be trickier to do in LR since there are no layers. I mostly wonder if the difference in quality presented here is from advancements in raw processing today vs 14 years ago and the fact that Cripps isn't a beginner in 2021.

[@TomMannHome]

I was going to make exactly the same point about adjustment layers not being inherently destructive.

[@lordperilous]

Although he doesn't show it in this example, there are times in PS where you need to snapshot the current workflow into a new fresh layer to also build on. When you stack like this, you lose the ability to go back and make adjustments to early edits without having to potentially redo a lot more above it. But it depends if you can keep it to adjustment layers without merging up.

[@justinrichardson3864]

@@lordperilous I've not run into that limitation (probably in part because I'm not shooting a 100MP camera), but you could just merge and save as a new file so then you could go back to the old set of layers if you needed to.

[@SteveMorrisTCS]

Hi Joshua great video as always. Just wondered if you have looked at the layering system coming out in lightroom and do you know if this would create artefacts or as its on the RAW file would be smooth adjustments as you demonstrate in this video?

[@tobywoolgar9517]

How come you don't use luminosity masks like tk actions in photoshop?

[@hakaneliacik]

great

[@johancarlberg1530]

You seem like the nicest guy ever

[@craigallenphotography]

What I think when I go look at some of my old edits is "what the hell was I thinking?" LOL, LOL I went through an HDR phase that I thought I was keeping it realistic, but good grief was I NOT. Anyway, I didn't know that multiple layers in PS could degrade an image. That's unsettling for sure since I do rough edits in LR and then fine tune edits in PS. Time to look a little closer at some of my images. Thanks for the great information.

[@300hiker]

First!!!

[@ushren]

Dude, u disappeared again. R u ok? If you're going thru something we're here for you. At least I am.

[@victormedina2269]

I love your hiking and videos of the Sierras but your post processing leaves a lot to be desired...sorry! You should take some lessons from Anthony Morganti on how to process photos! He's terrific.

[@adiboyxbox]

Please do something about your audio.