Create THIS DARK BLUE Style using ONLY LIGHTROOM!

[@davehenson5390]

For the gaps in the wing selection, you could use 'add/remove...colour range' and use the eye dropped in the sky near it. Also, I sometimes find 'select object's with the 'square' selection works better than 'select subject'.

[@jessicajohansson8494]

Thankyou for sharing. Love your editing :)

[@nibusprofessionalphotographynp]

Very beautiful and precise explanation for lightroom editors. really helpfull

[@samelogio7441]

You are a master at masking with Lightroom. You continue to amaze me with all your little tricks and I continue to learn something new with each new video. Thank you so much. Enjoy the holiday season.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much!

[@johnyoung1606]

i luv the way you can re imagine the final edit (and make it happen) !!! You Are an ARTIST !!!!!! :) :) :) THANKS !!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@danmaynard120]

Never tried lining up the RGB panel up top for a natural colour. Will try tomorrow!

[@karlkiiliphotography]

Thank you Christian. Everyday I learn something new from you. For the pesky masking near the feathers, you could use add/remove luminance mask

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the comment, very happy to hear that! I actually tried removing with a range mask, but it didnt work :/

[@bharath700i]

Awesome. Saw this in reddit as well. I liked it a lot. Thanks for sharing the method.

[@ronbonoz4139]

Truly awesome explanation... I can now bring some dull lighting bird pics alive!!! thanks Christian

[@andrewlamberson539]

AWESOME! A have a Bald Eagle image that I will try this on tomorrow am.

[@happymystic9800]

This is one heck of an edit. Really well done and something to take away. ❤ … cheers, 😊

[@jackbaratta5722]

You are a very good teacher. I like how complete your verbal explanation is and how clear your video examples are. I learned several things just watching this one video today!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much, thats great to hear!

[@biancamariacapanna9466]

Very nice your tutorial

[@markvinton1047]

I learn every time I watch your work! TY

[@kapilbhallafoto]

Very useful tutorial, thought process is outstanding

[@815MikeB]

I really appreciate you giving us the RAW file to practice with. Helps me a lot since I unfortunately don't have Lightroom, I use DxO Photolab, and while I know I can't get the exact same results, following along with the original RAW image helps try to translate the actions between the two programs.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the kind comment, very happy to hear that you can still follow along even with the other raw editor! :-)

[@CUBOPhotoMilano]

I do mostly metal birds (i.e. aircraft) and to minimize the halo in acute angle spots, when masking the subject, I generally subtract the sky or the background from the subject mask: works most of the times, especially against uniform background So much so, I saved that mask as a user preset, speeding up basic editing

[@scomart]

Always enjoy the masking tips!

[@raylo1017]

Done very well! Thank you for changing things up with some wildlife. I really enjoy watching your channel. Hope you have a nice holiday season.

[@spnzz3976]

Masterpiece. I Was waiting so long for this tutorial ❤

[@ramblersnook]

This is very simple and well-explained. Thank you for sharing and spreading the knowledge, Christian!

[@cristianogiani702]

Fantastic !! Many thanks...

[@davemitchell6404]

Love it 👌

[@stevebauer8218]

Great work, Christian. I’ve found that the Object selection tool does a much better job of selecting birds than the Subject tool. Give it a try and you’ll notice a much better feather selection on the wings. Thanks again for sharing your work.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the comment! You are right, I also feel like the object tool works better most of the times!

[@Relentlessiam]

Very good Christian as always 👏

[@ChantalDeVos]

Fantastisch!!

[@philpetrie]

Brilliant

[@iqueque]

The RGB concept is new to me, and is a great idea.

[@alexnrs8700]

Nice edit!

[@DrPankajMalukar]

Awesome❤❤❤❤

[@andyallard5990]

What started off as a pretty average picture ended up being stunning. ❤

[@KINDJIRO]

RESPECT!

[@FabioBozzone]

Impressive! No need of photoshop that is, at least for me, too much complicated to be used at a good level. Thanks for sharing your workflows in this very clear tutorial!

[@iqueque]

I hope in future we can feather masks a small amount to avoid the sharp edges which always screams “masked”

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

That would be awesome!

[@ChrrZ]

super erklärt, vielen dank!

[@pitma7463]

Great video

[@ucarcam]

nice video bro

[@petereliassen9698]

why make things higher exposure by adding whites vs plain exposure slider? (i am a beginner) youre video's are very helpful and fun!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the comment! If you increase exposure, everything will become brighter, but if you increase highlights or whites, only the brighter parts will get brighter and in turn we can add more contrast this way

[@petereliassen9698]

@ThePhlogPhotography thx!

[@JeremyHearne-ez1qb]

Really enjoyed this edit and you gave such a clear explanation of how you did it. There does appear to be quite a bit of noise in the image. Would you use the Lightroom noise reduction for this?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks for the comment! Denosing would improve image quality indeed, I'm just a bit lazy here since I dont think its needed for putting this image on different websites :-)

[@chacataplan]

more this, plsss!!!

[@scandinavianthinking1251]

Christian, I am very thankful for your beautiful photo and magnificent presentation! I do have difficulty with the first Adobe Color selection, is it for a warmer color, not considered the background?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much Nancy! Do you mean the Profile I was using? I changed it from Adobe Color to Adobe Standard since the Adobe Standard profile has a little less contrast. This in turn gives us more control over the contrast. In the end its a very minor change and not that important, I just like setting up a rather flat base image on which I then apply the masking :-)

[@brausso]

Nice video. Just a quick note, the reason you couldn't mask out the small part of the wings was because 1- auto mask was on and had a hard time picking up the correct area. In small areas like that, I always turn it off. 2- your brush size was too big. Go small and turn off auto mask.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

You are correct, I had auto mask turned on (I deactivated it in the process but might have cut out that part of the video) but the brush might have still been too big for that tiny area :/

[@GrahamMarsden]

A little bit complicated but the result made it worthwhile.

[@marcguillaume3547]

Superbe

[@pharaotv4347]

If you just want to Remove you should deactivate the Generate AI. Works for me better because sometimes it doest remove and just puts something Else there

[@damienu.2668]

Great job indeed, I really enjoy following your videos regularly since many weeks now. I’ve begun shooting birds, so this video has immediately called me. ISO 3200 : you don’t integrate denoise operation during your editing, i wonder whether it is necessary or not ? From my experience i’m used to denoise my photos with Topaz Denoise, i would be glad to know your opinion about this 🙂 Very nice result, especially the contrast between cold tones of the background and accentuated warm tone of the bird. Very helpful thanks a lot

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much for the kind comment! For better image quality, denosing would be helpful for this image indeed. I think for putting this shot online on instagram and other sites denosing is not that important though :-)

[@carolakroonenburg3011]

wauw!!

[@Jonathantuba]

For selecting the gaps in the wing, I tend to use objects selection rather than brush. I find that generally works best.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Oh, thats a good idea, I will try it the next time I have gaps like these!

[@ravikumarravi9060]

ಸೂಪರ್

[@onitanatimileyin8907]

What year Lightroom are you using?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I use the newest version (I think its 2025?)

[@josecalimero]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@441greenleaf]

i downloaded the photo but its like taken with a entry level dslr. why ? =( expected more resolution and sharped image with no noise :d

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Its shot on a Sony A7III I would Not call that entry Level camera

[@shadowspirit8974]

il y a toujours un problème de masquage entre les ailes

[@ahmedyassensama]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@simonlawch]

👍

[@vihat_studio2000]

Please Preset Provide

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Preset woulds make much sense for this image as its a lot of masking involved!

[@KARMA-vu8ii]

Wibrance?

[@mvanlisdonk]

Admire your skills but edits like this are so cliche and look per definition overedited in my opinion.

[@str8boogerflikn102]

Let me guess you like the original better before he edited it

[@mvanlisdonk]

@str8boogerflikn102 no not really, but even though it looks better after edit i think a less cliche edit would have been better. Especially that artificial lightsource is done way too much nowadays

[@str8boogerflikn102]

@mvanlisdonk okay, I value everyone's opinion. Not everyone's going to like the same things. I think the photo looks great..

[@alexnrs8700]

What did our grandmothers say? … If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t…

[@mvanlisdonk]

@@alexnrs8700 my grandmother said always be honest but i have to admit the grumpy "get it right in the field" me got triggered. By the way i absolutely think he does some great edits.

[@Lez325]

Looks so fake to me as a Wildlife Photographer - sorry

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

different strokes for different folks

[@Lez325]

@ThePhlogPhotography indeed

[@KARMA-vu8ii]

It's Video not Wideo

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

God forbid I make mistakes in a foreign language

[@alalone35]

Nice edit !