Sure, I could always open up the Adobe Camera RAW filter in Photoshop to see where things are up to, but what about real-time feedback as I make a change? As I brush with a new brightness or highlight? As I adjust with a deeper shadow?Ī hunt through Photoshop showed no setting to enable this, but a Google search found this really great post on the Adobe forums. All updated with every single edit I make. You know, if I were to really push the brightness and see the areas of blown highlights in red, or take it too dark and get solid shadows in blue. Through editing more and more in Photoshop, I did really start to miss the dynamic highlights and shadows clipping that Lightroom would display in real-time as you made changes to the image. All of the adjustments, all of the edits, all in Photoshop. High level, my workflow now has file management and a (very) basic RAW process in Lightroom – and the rest happens in Photoshop. The online component of Adam’s workshop has been superb at breaking down the workflow, and finding that reason behind different processes – and it’s been great, and really changed the way I review how I process my images, and has been superbly presented by Adam (thank you, so much). But from an editing perspective, never really had the right workflow to use (and the reasoning behind “why” it should or could be done that way).
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Sure, I knew how to use Photoshop – at least for my day job – layers, masks, brushes, selections, sure no worries. It wasn’t just about editing or using a camera, but about creating connection – with the viewer, but also the photographer – and was an enlightening and valuable day. Adam’s Workshop Wizardry full-day session was just what I needed – to help with creativity, help with self-reflection and looking at my own anxiety and depression, and also, of course, learning new skills – specifically editing within Photoshop. The bulk of my editing and RAW processing was in Lightroom.Įarlier this year, a mate (and incredibly talented photographer Michael Stringer: check out his exhibition in Ballaratuntil 20th October 2019) and I were chatting about his experience at a workshop by another talented photographer, Adam Williams. But for my photography, I tended to use Photoshop for specific things – such as cleaning up or polishing an image as the final step.