Advanced RAW Photo Editing Tricks You DON'T Want to Miss!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

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[@JohnDoranski]

Found this very helpful in that I was not aware I could do the box versus just the eyedropper - as that was very difficult at times and I found myself doing the eyedropper several times. Great video - thanks.

[@danlundgren262]

Yes - your end result is great and the video also reminds me how much fun editing photos is.

[@stevejohnston7118]

Very helpful. I want to improve my masking techniques and this video will definitely be helpful! THANK YOU!

[@Rui_Fonseca]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

@@JohnDoranski Thanks John!

[@sjedouglas]

I enjoyed the moment where you looked at adjusting the blue saturation as I often find that mountains in the background of photos come out with a weirdly large amount of blue and purple in them, so I almost always tone those down to try and bring some realism back to the colour. Also, great tip on using the colour range to remove parts of a radial gradient. My (now old) technique was to try removing objects from the mask, then getting frustrated at lightroom's object detection so that's definitely going to help.

[@DaveKingMusic]

Great video! I liked that light behind the mountains trick.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks Dave!

[@scottvk75]

Thanks, Mark. I never thought of using color range for the mask. I like how that worked. Great tutorial.

[@EarlBlake]

This is exactly what I visit your channel for. Thanks!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Love it! Thanks Earl!

[@zornbtaylor]

this was helpful. I'm realizing that I'm a more advanced retoucher than I thought but I still got value from this video. Thank you

[@WisePhotographyForYou]

Lots of good points and advice. This was a good video. Thank you!

[@paulshipp23]

Your videos are always helpful Mark, many thanks for teaching me so much and for all your efforts. Your love of photography and passion in sharing your skills and knowledge shine throughout everything you do and is a wonderful thing.

[@MyrtleBeachBilliards]

Fantastic start to finish, hands on approach, thorough explanation of step by step with reasoning behind each carefully selected adjustment. Great video with a TON of value! Thank you for what you do 🙌🏻

[@M31glow]

I have to be honest, I would have given up on an image like this before I even started. Great post!!!

[@normansleep4491]

An absolutely fantastic explanation and a first class result Mark really enjoyed watching

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Nice edit. Much the same as I would have done, but watching you helps keep me sharp and thinking about all the alternatives rather than settling into a rut.

[@marvinvaughnsantos4064]

Great tips! I learn a lot from watching your videos. Thank you so much!

[@LEClarke-df3sf]

Great tutorial. You just put stretch marks on my brain!

[@richardhutson2474]

As always, I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. This time, it was bringing up the backlighting on the mountains and how to use the color picker. Thanks for sharing your work.

[@peters1526]

In Addition to my answer below I'd like to mention my current opinion to Lightroom - even that there are some dislikes about Adobes subscription model and some concerns about the usage of "our" Photos, that we "somehow load" to Adobe, in the last two years it's become such a useful and versatile tool, especially with the fantastic masking possibilities. So, as we are the landscape Photographers without the need to make compositions, a change to Photoshop is hardly neccessary any more. Greets - Peter from Germany!

[@prsearls]

I've not done much shooting lately but have been going through my better landscape files using these techniques and tips you're teaching. They have made big improvements to my images. The masking features allows me to "shape the light" in ways the original capture could not do. Plus, it's been great fun. As I get more experience with this, it becomes easier and I begin to "see" the possibilities better. I have also been experimenting with different blend modes in PS which can add more drama to a scene. You might discuss using these in a future video. Thanks!

[@Wanderingwookie]

Learnt a lot from this video. My main grab from it was the use of the colour range mask 👍🏼

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Glad to hear it!

[@alanjabs6935]

Great concise video Mark.. The more I learn the more I understand that there is more to learn.. Thanks...

[@hymanlevy2265]

Mark, your video provides some general ideas . Nicely Done!

[@donalobrien7879]

Hi Mark, very useful description of advanced techniques. Can you please explain why you use the Calibration panel rather than Color Mixer to adjust colors in the image?

[@kellykrueger178]

Super helpful video for me! You helped fine tune some things I have already been using but I learned new things too. I have never understood "subtract by color range" until now. I also was rather scared of the calibration tab. Thank you!

[@paulpotter7380]

Absolutely. I am on a steep learning curve at the moment and shall be revisiting some photos to see what I can achieve to, hopefully, reveal what I had hoped to capture.

[@redesign5096]

Mark, you’re really incredible at this! It’s always fun to watch and learn. This is how I learned to ski by going up that lift and following someone’s lead! Great work!

[@JohnSauler]

Watching you edit and the order of how you approach it makes more sense. I've always changed white balance first but I am going to move it closer to the end and see if I like the way my images come out better.

[@peterjones8862]

I have watched this three times bcse there's so much value in it. Thank you.

[@Vietguys]

Thanks a lot Mark. i have been searching for a completed tutorial on how to turn a photo into a dark moody and finally i have found one.

[@ebouwens]

Thanks!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks so much!

[@BenjaminHoegerPhotography]

Another great video Mark! Love this little valley with the impressive mountain walls! Hope you had a chance to hike up there, to the left is a incredible tree up there 😉

[@chrisnielsen9885]

Just one question - it's a fairly low contrast scene, why did you bracket it? Your camera should easily have had enough DR...

[@heinrichgattiker8585]

YOU ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST - Compliment.

[@davidkrye]

Absolutely. I’m heading to Scotland tomorrow for a photography trip and will definitely use some tips from this video. Thanks!

[@rcraigmacrae]

Total game changer for me. Thank you so much. I’m dumping Lightroom and going to classic.

[@troymclean9301]

Mark, love this edit. My WOW moment was the change in white balance. I need to better understand this for my edits…specifically when to adjust and when not to adjust. I’ll have to rewatch this again. I’ll search through your archives but do you have a lesson on when and why to adjust the white balance?

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks Troy! I do - I created a video all about white balance earlier this year

[@troymclean9301]

@@MarkDenneyPhoto Great Mark! That’s my next lesson! Thank you for your response.

[@rolsonn]

Mark, I learned a few new masking tips. Thank you!

[@jonnyroids1482]

Another great video mark, you make it look so easy. I struggle with editing my photos, hopefully with more practice I will be happy with my editing skills but that's a long way off. I find it easy going out taking a load of photos but this side of it I struggle with. Keep up the good work. Have a lovely week.

[@patcosgrave1546]

A priceless tutorial which is concise and comprehensive all I need to know can be found here

[@RickyCheung]

Amazing edit Mark. Super helpful step by step with your insight.

[@geoffreymee7671]

Yes! I really like your workflow and will take advice from it. Thank you Mark for sharing.

[@kathysnavely7639]

Thank you, great video, perfect timing. Just starting to go over my pictures from my trip to Wyoming and Washington. Very very helpful. Thank you.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks Kathy!

[@michaelmcdonald3345]

i always enjoy your videos. The way you back lit the mountains was something I have not seen in other videos.

[@JohnDoranski]

Of note, this is the most often that I have seen you use the Exposure slider in an edit. I have seen others do this in the past but not in yours - so, thanks, as I have recently started to do this in my edits and this adds greater confidence in what I am attempting to do.

[@shlomoeshet8525]

Really love both the process and the outcome. Great job. Also, the WB tip is golden. Thank you Mark.

[@audreyrice996]

Great video! I learned so much, and can't wait to try out some of these cool techniques.

[@hylkeheidstra2274]

Great video Mark, absolutely helpful, great outline of a more advanced edit!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Happy to hear this!

[@GARY1951A]

Great video, Mark!! Your editing process explanation is fantastic - I will use these tips in my editing!!!

[@radspanner]

Wow that's such a useful tutorial... I will take it onboard.... well done you. You need a new clock as the one you have now is broken.

[@sylvestersim423]

Thank you for sharing this incredible technique.. My go to channel when I'm looking for editing techniques

[@gamerw1zz]

Very helpful! Would love to see more with varying environments, lighting etc.. ❤

[@howardsmith6609]

For me at my present stage of my photographic journey, perhaps just a little bit too advanced but excellent stuff none the less. And I 100% agree that things at the edge going up instead of down make me feel uncomfortable 🙂. The only thing I would say, though, is that I tend to leave cropping as one of the latter stages of my processing. Many a time I've cropped early on and then had to redo my editing as I feel I've cropped too much. But to reiterate, a video I shall no doubt return to in due course.

[@michaelwhalen7154]

Absolutely useful. Thank you so much! Can’t wait try some of these techniques myself. Thanks for sharing your expertise. Much appreciated Mark!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Glad to do it!

[@draffish5661]

Thanks Mark another very helpful video to help us understand editing

[@ebouwens]

Excellent tips. It really increased my range of options.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thank you!

[@alisaconn]

You are so talented with your vision

[@eliaswolfram4798]

I like these videos!!! Learned a lot so far. Thank you so much!

[@michaelvanvalkenburg5593]

This was great. Thank you.

[@larrymulmed2081]

A Master Class! Thank you Mark.

[@nevvanclarke9225]

You can choose subtract and choose subject and draw around mountain to subtract mountain also ..same same Using subtract and overlapping masks is so easy and dare I say it fun 😁

[@colinbrewer6507]

Thank you Mark great info have learnt alot from you again 👍

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks Colin!

[@TimvanderLeeuw]

Overall an amazing job on bringing that image to life. At first it bothered my that the low-hanging clouds in front of the mountains were not part of the sky-mask and since you warmed up the sky, these clouds in front of the mountains look unnatural next to the rest of the clouds. I'm glad you picked that up eventually!

[@juliebaughan7533]

Yes it’s really helpful Mark, thank you 😊

[@brendallsterling4117]

Thank you again. I always learn something new and very helpful. Lightroom is a good program. Brenda

[@geoffreymee7671]

Very interesting Mark. I am a bit confused though as I have just seen two of yr tutorials about Capture One. The above video is ACR so are you saying it is much better now for landscape editing than earlier versions? I'm using Fuji RAF raw files. Once again thanks for your tutorials.

[@artefia-photo-video]

Woaw! Thanks for these great tips Mark. Patrice

[@FiazKhan-sk3dl]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks

[@michealpociecha8351]

Great video. Thanks so much.

[@polos1966]

Ciao Mark. Nice processing. I noticed that while editing the Sky there are some halos around the hedges of the mountains. Si there a method in lightroom to ad just them? Thank you

[@jamesbarnes3063]

Thank you for the tips

[@apougeoise]

Thanks for these tips. Is it possible to download your image file for testing ?

[@DavidMcCurry-f9h]

Great stuff!

[@thomasdean2472]

This was a great video. I learned a lot.

[@LarryHonke]

Thanks for the very informative video. I do have a question. I recently watched one of your videos and you showed a technique to make a cone shaped area of light. You connected two radial gradients of different diameters to shape the light. I can't remember how you did it and cannot find the video. Can you help me out?

[@maureenmarshall1070]

Definitely. Like the subtract from masks, so must give this a go. Great video, do more of this please.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Great to hear you enjoyed it!

[@keiththompson2289]

Love some of these tips!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thank Keith!

[@poerava]

Holy moly 9:30 I wish you would give it a few more seconds so we can see all of the the amazing adjustments or even side by side pics. I’d give a good 10-15 seconds to see all the awesome changes.

[@MikalRamirez]

Yes, very helpful , 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you!

[@robryan4272]

OK This one is a keeper !!

[@sequoi_]

@MarkDenneyPhoto curious how you're getting on w/ the Z8 now that you've had more time w/ it? Do you find your photos have less overall detail [ not pixel peeping ] than when shooting GFX?

[@GatorheadLuis]

Great video. More of these editing videos.

[@jackcooksey9691]

Outstanding!

[@biwageezer]

Might be a nitpick, but I think you should have subtracted the lower left fog from the Sky mask (could do via color range of the nearly pure white fog). If you look at the initial HDR, that section is clearly distinct from the sky. However, by not protecting it in the mask, that lower left fog gets "turned into sky" and basically disappears as a distinct feature in the image. Thanks

[@johnmiller6108]

Very nice photo edit. It is good to know great photos come from basic photography. You just need to know how to edit

[@TonyaGreenwood]

Awesome video!

[@brsseb]

Epic stuff.

[@michaelmcdonald3345]

Mark, just a thought... Would it be possible to post a link to this photo in it's original format for us to practice on? We cold download it into LrC and do our own step-by-step practice while watching your video.

[@57sapke]

Very useful video, thanks 👍

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@juanmm9297]

Thank for tutorial 🙏

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Happy to do it!

[@rafalkonieczny]

Interesting how often you use the color range masks. I think you would have better time setting global white balance first - instead of starting with clouds locally. Thanks!

[@bhhbcc4573]

Nice. But somehow I find the colours and light in video at 0:51 just as pleasing . Not dramatic at all but natural. Kind of difficult to bridge the difference between this and the original three exposures. Probably processing inside the "phone"?

[@guycl2381]

Rewind, play, slomo, Rewind, play, slomo, Rewind, play, slomo, :-) Great video ! Kind regards, Guy.

[@rrr46060]

great tips as usual Mark, one thing, when your toggling the masks on and off, slow down just a bit its hard to see the before and after when you go so fast. thanks again Mark

[@Greg_Ashley]

Amazing. Thank you.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks Greg!

[@tonycox169]

Another very educational and helpful video, thank you. But just one light-hearted question. Why is the clock behind you always saying the same time, does it need a new battery? It messes with my OCD about incorrect clocks and wonky pictures.😉

[@lindasmalley4718]

Thank you!

[@sh1209macro]

Very nice video!

[@santoshgc9416]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ great video sir❤❤

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thank you!

[@s.grabinska5827]

Nice!👌

[@dentReviews]

i waited over 10 minutes praying you were going to fix the mountain cloud white balance. hahaha. :)

[@lanemortensen1952]

So at what point does it move from being a photograph to being a painting?

[@JesemanuelRamirez]

I’m seeing a lot of people editing their photos that look like it has a heavy vignette effect on it. Everything else looks amazing just not a fan of a bright colorful center and dark halo around it