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Brilio.net/en - If you ever ending up buying tickets shortly after spotting an extremely beautiful landscape photo of your destination, then get disappointed once you get there, youre one of many victims to Photoshopped travel photos.
Taking a good picture isn't easy, and taking a really awesome one is even harder and by the way, taking an impossible picture is, well, impossible. Unless you have Photoshop on hand.
An internationally recognized photographer (who also happens to be a Photoshop wizard) will show you how most impressive travel photos are made, revealing before and after pictures that show some of the clever edits made by editing.
I like to approach my digital photography with a certain sense of the fantastical and the surreal, said Stewart, as featured in Boredpanda. He uses a technique called bracketed multiple exposure, which allows him to retain highlight details from different photographs before stacking them together into one picture.
These before and after samples are simply meant to highlight what can be done with the power of Photoshop, said he. As such, I have deliberately provided the most dramatic examples.
Not only revealing the truth about the photos, his explanation of these 13 photos will also help you improve your Photoshop skills:
1. This photo is edited using manual HDR bracketing technique in Photoshop. Nik Color Efex Pro used for finishing touch.
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2. Color temperature adjustment in Adobe Cameraraw has made this photo exceptional.
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3. Single exposure edit using Photoshop.
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4 Single raw image copied twice, flipped then cut diagonally. The two images are then united in one frame, then masked to create a seamless join. To reveal details, the brightness is increased.
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5. This photo is retouched to create a gradual sun-kissed sky, using gradient and color adjustments in Adobe Cameraraw. Sunrays created with Photoshop, with added glow.
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6. This photo is edited using the same techniques applied to photo number 1.
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7. Some perspective re-correction and power line removal are done using Photoshop. The color is enhanced using Color Efex Pro.
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8. Sky color adjustment has been done using Photoshop, and post-production color enhancement done using Nik Color Efex Pro.
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9. The details of this overexposed image are brought back using Camera Raw. Nik Color Efex Pro utilized for post-production colour.
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10. This Mount Fiji photos HDR bracketing composited using Photoshop's 'Merge to HDR'. Nik Color Efex Pro used for post-production colour enhancements.
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11. Two photos become one. Exposures are manually blended using Photoshop. Perspective is fixed using Camera Raw. The colour was adjusted using Nik Color Efex Pro.
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12. This dull city skyline photo had some adjustment in its contrast and colours in order to reduce haze and make it warmer. A composite sky is blended into the frame, and sun glow added in. Everything was done on Photoshop.
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13. This photo was edited using the same techniques as in the photo number 1.
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14. This one is edited with multiple exposure blending techniques.
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15. Three times exposures is manually composited in Photoshop CC. The sky is replaced manually, overlaid and painted in.
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16. Again, two photos become one. Single exposure, composite cropped and colour corrected using Photoshop. Sky background composited into image and the colour is also corrected.
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17. The colour is enhanced using Nik Color Efex Pro.
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18. The contrast is adjusted and the temperature is corrected using Photoshop. The colour is enhanced using Vsco and Nik Color Efex Pro.
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19. Again, the same techniques as in photo number 1.
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