Creating a VIBRANT sunrise phot with Adobe Photoshop | QE #208

In this quickedit video I‘m creating a bright, vibrant sunrise image using #Adobe #Photoshop CC 2019 for the #PostProcessing

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I first wanted to create an HDR image, but once back home at the PC I noticed this photo can be edited without using bracketed photos. My goal was it to make the raw image way more vibrant, add heavy vignetting and add a lot of local glow above the horizon.

As I’m only using Adobe Photoshop for the editing, I will be doing the basic raw adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw. To start the raw adjustments, I activated the lens corrections, changed the camera profile to Adobe Landscape (to gain more base saturation) and added some tint to the white balance to give the image a more purple colour tone. Since the base image is a bit dark, I increased the exposure and to prevent overexposure I dropped the highlights. For some more structure / sharpness I then increased the texture and clarity.

For the local adjustments I added graduated filter for the sky where I dropped the exposure making the sky darker. I created another graduated filter for the foreground to add some more brightness and clarity. With three different sized radial filters I added glow above the horizon as well as some temperature to make the area warmer and brighter.

To further enhance the sunrise colours, I used the split toning to add a warm colour to the highlights. After that I sharpened the image a bit and finally opened it in Photoshop. Here I started by getting rid of the branches on the upper left and ride site using the spot healing brush. Using a hard light layer, I added some more glow above the horizon by carefully using the brush tool.

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