Hey guys I am Vaibhav and today I am going to talk about Creating Awesome Sunset Effect in Lightroom. Last time I talked about Retouching a Portrait using Lightroom for Beginners which is really a recommended tutorial if you are a beginner. For today tutorial I am going to use Lightroom 4.3 which is a bit old version because Lightroom 5 just came out. I am going to use Graduated Filter, Some Local Adjustment, Brush etc.
Stock: http://designdivala.deviantart.com/art/skyline-sunset-by-Designdivala-135325801
FINAL
INITIAL
STEP 1
First thing that I am going to do is to adjust some local adjustments because the image looks so dull. The changes that I am going to make is
- Temp: +10
- Tint: +12
- Contrast: +57
- Highlight: -26
- Shadow: +40
- Whites: -74
- Blacks: +76
- Clarity: +36
- Vibrance: +17
And these little tweaks added a little bit life to the image.
I dragged the temp slider to the right because I want to add a little bit warm effect to the image. I increased the tint by 12 because I want a little bit purple shade. I added the contrast because the image was too flat. I decreased the highlight to make the sky less exposed. I increased the shadow to increase the exposure of the buildings. I decreased the white all the way to -74 to reduce the “whites” in the clouds. I increased the blacks because the buildings were so underexposed. I increased the clarity to make the image a little bit clear and vibrance to increase the vibrance.
