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Full Edit Tutorial for Driftwood Beach, Georgia Using TK9 Plugin for Photoshop

The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly via YouTube

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Follow along with this 24-minute tutorial demonstrating a full photo edit of a Driftwood Beach, Georgia image using the TK9 Plugin for Photoshop. Learn professional editing techniques as Dave Kelly walks through balancing sky and foreground contrast, enhancing mid-tone contrast, darkening areas under trees, adding detail to tree elements, increasing warm saturation in the foreground, framing the image by closing off top and bottom areas, reducing blue saturation in the sky, and inspecting/repairing tree edges. Download the provided image and PDF notes to practice these techniques yourself. The tutorial includes information about Lightroom Classic editing workflow and offers discount codes for various photography software tools including the TK9 Plugin, Topaz products, and DXO software.

Syllabus

00:00 Intro
00:17 Image By Mike Polk
00:36 Do you have an image you would like me to edit on a TK Friday?
00:52 TK WebStore Info
01:39 Lightroom Classic Editing Info
02:37 Sky and Foreground Balance and Contrast
06:26 Mid Tone Contrast
09:33 Darken the area under the trees
12:17 Add Detail to trees
13:46 Increase the warm saturation in the foreground
16:07 Close Off the Top and bottom of the image
20:40 Reduce the blue saturation in the sky
21:20 Zoom In and inspect the tree edges and repair where needed
23:19 Overall Before and After
23:43 Outro

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The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly

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