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Landscape Photography Editing - Transforming Iron Blow Lookout Tasmania with TK9 Plugin

The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly via YouTube

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Learn to transform a dramatic landscape photograph from Iron Blow Lookout, Tasmania using advanced Photoshop techniques and the TK9 plugin in this comprehensive 24-minute tutorial. Follow along with a complete step-by-step workflow that demonstrates how to shape light, contrast, and color for professional landscape editing results. Master the use of TK9's powerful luminosity masks and panels to make targeted, natural adjustments while maintaining a fully non-destructive editing approach. Work through specific techniques including sky and foreground balance adjustments, midtone contrast enhancement, selective lightening and darkening, color cast correction, saturation enhancement in water elements, vignetting, and detail enhancement. Download the provided practice image by Paul Burdett and accompanying PDF notes to follow along with the editing process. Discover how to integrate Lightroom Classic with Photoshop for optimal workflow efficiency, and see how TK9 fits seamlessly into real-world landscape photography post-processing from initial adjustments through final polish.

Syllabus

00:00 Intro
00:21 Today's image from Paul Burdett
00:30 Do you have an image you'd like me to edit on a TK Friday?
00:42 Download the image and PDF notes
00:48 TK Web Store Information
01:42 Lightroom Classic editing information
02:33 Sky and FG Balance and Contrast adjustments
05:09 FG MidTone contrast
08:17 Lighten FG MidTones
10:02 Lighten upper FG
12:45 Reduce Magenta color cast
13:37 Darken light area in the lower FG
15:24 Lighten FG exposure
17:08 Increase the saturation in the water
18:48 Vignette
19:22 Add detail to the FG
22:46 Overall Before and After
23:13 Outro

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The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly

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