How to Adjust Sports Photos Like a Pro in Photoshop & RAW
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Kim: Okay, a few people have asked me what process I use for my photos. So I thought I would go ahead and do a quick tutorial and show you how I post process my photos. So I'm going to go ahead and pull up my photo. Right now, this is what I like to call an inspiration photo which I think has really nice color. It’s a stock photo. I can compare my photo and make sure that I like the color base I'm looking at this one and sometimes it just helps give me a gauge so I'm going to go ahead and pull out photo that I took in RAW.
And this is my photo and I have this little triangle on and it shows me the areas that are maybe blown out and this one shows me with blue. The areas that maybe too black and there's not a lot, so it’s not anything to worry about. If there was a lot of black then I may need to do some adjustments with the blacks and decrease it. Just so that I still have some shadows and some good color and one of the reason I like to this photo is he has a nice intense look on his face. You can see his face and he is also got the ball in the picture.
It has a lot of nice space in front of them and with sport shots is always nice to have room in front of the player so I'm going to go ahead. The first thing I'm going to do is come to auto and I would just like to see what auto does and I like what it’s done but I may want to just increase the temperature a little bit and come over to my saturation and increase the vibrance and the clarity.
Sometimes it’s nice to just have a really nice bright photo and that’s all the adjustments I'm going to do in RAW. So I'm going to go ahead and click open image. I'm going to make a copy of my original and change this to 25% so I don’t have to need distortion. And the first thing I always like to do is run a noise filter. I'm going to come up here to filter, come to imagenomic, noiseware professional. And when I was looking for a noiseware program, I downloaded the free trial of a lot of them and this is the one that I finally decided on.
I just really like all the options that I had. It has settings for landscape, portrait one is great for close up photos where you really want to skin to look soft. But for sport photos I go ahead and usually just use landscape and you could see the difference. And then you can also adjust this if you feel like its got to much smoothing going on. You can adjust it a little bit further with all of these other areas. I'm going to go ahead and just run the basic landscape and click okay. That really takes all the noise out but it also softens up the edges a little bit.
So what I like to do is make a copy of that layer, come up here to filter other and then high pass and usually for a high resolution photo like this, a three pixel is perfect. You can see what it looks like with higher.
Basically, what it’s doing is you can see these areas on the edges and it’s just basically going to highlight this. I'm going to go ahead and click okay. And then I come over to the adjustment area and click overlay and then if I turned it off and on you can see the difference that it makes. I'm going to go ahead and change this to 50 so you can see close up and you can see how it sharpens the edges. And if you think well that brought some the noise back and I don’t like that then you can always take your high past layer and you can run your noiseware on your high past layer.
And that takes some of the noise out. You can see the before and after here where it’s taken the noise out of that so I'm going to go ahead and press okay. And then one more thing that I usually do is I usually try to run curves so stay tuned.
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