Levitation Photography Tutorial - How To Video on Levitation Photography Photoshop and Lightroom

[Music] okay what is up guys I'm free tog Rafi and I'm here with a special guest and she is Victoria say hello Victoria hi okay what we're gonna do today is we are gonna teach you how to do levitation photography and how to post process and make the file in Adobe Lightroom and in Photoshop alright so this is my first time doing a tutorial so bear with me and let's see how it goes so what you're looking at on the screen right now is the broom that we did the photo shoot in alright so we're gonna take a picture from this picture and this picture to create this picture right here so it makes it look like she's levitating that's right so put yourself in the room you're the photographer you have your model you've got your tripod of your camera first thing you want to do is set up your scene and exactly how you want to picture to look then you're gonna take a picture of the room with nothing in it which is this picture that you see right here then you're gonna take your model for me my model is my 11 year old daughter Victoria yep and anything that she can support herself with like a stool that we used here you can put the stool in place you're not gonna move your camera your camera stays exactly as it is in the first picture that you took or else it won't work that's right then you set up your model on the stool and you put her in position them in a in a way that looks like she's floating it always is better to have a flowing dress as you can see right here on my cursor only difference if it's a boy you do something different if it's a girl she should be wearing a flowing dress and now when I took this picture I should have positioned her dress better but we can fix that in Photoshop but if you want don't know what I have to fix it in Photoshop then have a flowing dress and and have it flowing down over the stool to make it a lot easier in post-processing then there you go you have picture one you go to picture two and then when we're done we're gonna have to fix your three so first thing you want to do is you want to open up Adobe Lightroom which is what I recommend that everybody uses and Lightroom is probably the best for doing this type of thing you're going to go right down here and you're going to do import then you have to find your file so we go to the desktop and it is in I believe it's untitled folder no that's my wife No so you want to find your folder which is called levitation you're gonna pick all three files and you're gonna import okay so here they come just takes a couple seconds so now you are in Lightroom and you have your pictures we actually don't need this picture so I'm gonna delete that just remove okay first things first you're gonna select both pictures and you're going to apply the same edits to both pictures so you're gonna start by selecting one hold down your Shift button select the other one you're gonna click your develop tab give it a minute alright so now we are in the developed tab of Lightroom and you have both pictures selected what you're gonna do here is you're gonna hit sync right here sync button and everything that you do you're gonna hit check all everything you do to one picture will be applied to the other one all right what I always do is I always go to the very bottom and I always start with enable profile Corrections and you select your lens that you used then you're gonna go to straightening you're gonna straighten the picture you can always start with auto auto does a pretty good job at straightening and there you go so we're gonna show you again turning it off we have a little bit the lines aren't quite straight you're gonna go Auto and now you've got a nice straight picture so now when I go to the other one this one should also be straight hit sync first synchronize and okay no I didn't do that okay so we're gonna autumn there you go we're nice and straight enable profile Corrections okay so now both pictures what's going on here Otto there we go there we go both pictures are almost the same they're close enough we can work with this alright okay so a quick correction on the syncing what you want to do is you want to click this little button right here to auto sync all right so auto sync means that any adjustment you make on picture 1 will automatically apply to picture 2 so what we've got now is we have both pictures we have straightened them both they're both pretty much identical so now we're gonna go to the very top and we're gonna work our way down each line here to make our edits and our revisions first thing I like to do is you see we've got some blowdown windows here right so first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring my highlights down and that brings out a little bit more green from the window and you will see that in this picture it's done it as well all right so next thing is you want to bring out some of the shadows and a little bit more detail in the picture so I'm gonna bring up my shadows and it depends on how much you want right you go all the way to the left it makes it very dark you go all the way to the right it makes it look a little bit fake so I'm just gonna start in the middle and I'm gonna move over a little bit I like him to be like that now you've got your exposure which to me this perfect this picture is exposed quite well you've also got your white balance and my preference is to leave the white-balance as shot but you can choose automatic white balancing which didn't really make any difference you can do daylight white balancing which makes it a little bit more adds a little bit of yellow a bit darker cloudy these are some of the the pre bates options but again I like to go with I like to go with as shot ok I'm not gonna touch the exposure I'm not gonna touch these the contrast because I'm very happy with the way it is then you work your way down your whites you can make it darker you can bring it up a little bit you start right in the middle and then you know you just work your way over a little bit until you're happy same thing with the blacks you can bring in more detail or you can take away detail it adds contrast it takes away contrast I'm gonna go a little bit that way now clarity is something that some people overuse and I'll show you the difference between so perfect clarity is right in the center if you go all the way to the left you get this sort of cloudy like dreamy looking sequence yeah all the way to the right and it almost looks like an HDR and it looks extremely extremely over processed so I'm not gonna really do anything with clarity maybe a little bit to the right just thirteen right there vibrance is your color overall color all the way to the right it's extremely saturated all the way to the left is almost like a black and white dress yeah I'm just gonna leave that and we'll get to the dress color in a minute saturation is the same awful black and white we're just gonna leave it right in the middle all right yeah then you've got your tone curve and again it sorts of highlights this you know going to the right with some of these highlights here it can be a good thing if you give you a little bit of detail so I'm gonna just move my highlights over to the side there now we're gonna talk about the dress and the orange on the wall and the greens outside all right so we're gonna start with saturation the color red and we can go all the way to the right and it makes it very red in this case I want it really red all right but what you have to be careful of though is watch Victoria's face alright so when I'm right in the middle there's that but when I go too far to the right her face turns red yeah so we're just gonna go a little bit maybe halfway and that gives a nice a little bit of red to the dress okay then we're gonna do orange to bring out some of the colors on the background and the bricks see all the way here makes everything look very strange yeah so we're just gonna get a little bit of orange to the right and then I'm gonna pick the green and we're gonna make the greens outside pop a little bit more alright so that's your saturation then I take it over to luminance and I do the exact same thing and you can play with the colors do you want your your dress to be a darker red you also have to watch the face right again because it doesn't just change the spot on the dress and there's other ways to do it but this is the way I do it so I'm gonna go a little bit to the left right there orange you play around with a little bit it'll make it you know again you're doing global color changes to the picture so I'm just gonna leave it and then you're green you go there you go there that's a little too green that's not green enough so I'm just gonna go that way so you got a little bit of green all right then the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this wand here and I'm gonna just bring down some of the exposure down here because I think it's a little too bright so what I'm doing here is I've selected the wand and I'm gonna bring my exposure down and then you can change the size of the wand if you can see where it is right now it's very small and where'd it go very small now it's a bit bigger so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna click and drag around the bottom to this corner yeah and that just brings down your exposure level and you get a little more detail and it's not quite so bright and I think it looks really good all right you hit done don't worry we'll get to that next thing we're gonna look at is a vignette right here so if you go all the way to the right it brightens it up if you go all the way to the left you if you look at the outside edges of the picture it's brighter it's darker when you go to manual you can add how much been getting you want you see so right there you see what I'm doing here so I like what I like about this is that it puts more focus on the model okay so I'm gonna start from the middle and I'm gonna add a little bit more vignetting and I like the way that that looks for me from my personal references on editing style this is what I like next we're gonna open the picture in Adobe Photoshop alright so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take this picture both pictures and we're gonna open them in Adobe Photoshop so as you can see the changes that I made in this picture have been applied to this picture so they are identical pictures with the exception of I might have moved the camera a little bit between the pictures as you can see it's not quite perfect but that's okay we'll fix that so so what you're gonna do and still have both pictures selected make sure we're gonna go photo edit in Adobe Photoshop Photoshop is open now here's what I do so you've got photo number one and you've got for number two all right we are going to put photo number two in front of for number one if that makes sense as a layer this is the way I do it like I said before I know that there's probably other ways to do it that people probably follow up but I go select select all edit copy go to your other picture edit paste there now you've got your layer layer one is Victoria on the stool we'll go up here and you will go to view layers okay so now that I'm here what I want to do next is I want to duplicate my background so I'm gonna drag this right here so now I've got I'm gonna take this background away and now all I have is background copy which is the empty picture and you've got layer 1 which is Victoria now what we're going to do is we're going to erase the stool so that all you see is what's behind so what I want to do that's bigger I'm going to take my magnifying glass and I'm going to zoom in as close as I can to Victoria alright then I'm gonna take my eraser tool which is right here and I need to make the eraser very small for what I'm about to do so now what you want to do is you want to start erasing the stool but be very slow and very careful to not erase the dress so you want to keep the edge of that circle very very close to the dress to you now what we're doing is revealing the background all right I touched the dress a little bit there but that's okay all right and then we're gonna go to this side here from this corner there now everything that is touching Victoria is now gone so now we're just gonna erase the rest you know now as you can see the color is a little bit different between the two layers but that's alright we'll fix that oops that's far here alright so now what we're gonna do we're gonna view fit on screen then I'm gonna make my eraser a little bit bigger and right so now you can't really see the difference between the layers now it looks like she's floating right okay so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to make my eraser bigger and I'm gonna bring the hardness down so now it's gonna make a little bit of a softer erase and I'm just gonna take away I'm just moving the other layer away so that everything is the same cuz watch what see this brick right here it's actually a little bit different so just try to make it as good as I can so at a glance you really can't tell that the two layers are off by a little bit no okay so there you go so now what you have is you have Victoria floating yeah yay so now here what you have is you have your photo of a girl floating and levitating in a room what I probably should have done on site was I should have moved there's a chair behind her I should have moved that chair because my father fix is here because it almost looks like she's using that chair to sit on I probably should have moved that chair anyways what you want to do now is you want to hit file and you're gonna hit save and then you're gonna go back to Lightroom very okay so now it's important back in the Lightroom and it's saved the picture you're right yep okay and now you've got a picture of a girl floating which has gone from picture number one of the room to picture number two of the chair you've made all of your global changes to the picture you have erased the dress I should say the stool in Photoshop where'd that go there it is so there you have your final picture and a little bit of a little bit more information of what you want to do here is you want to add your meta descriptions and keywords to the picture so what I got here is all my typical keywords that I put in a photo what I'll call this I'll add the keywords levitation I will add levitation photography make sure I spell it right I will say portrait I will say creative spell it right creative photography other people might be looking up floating photography so what you want to do is put your keywords in the picture you're going to give it a name so we are going to call this levitation photography that's okay 2018 fix that that would typically I'll take the file name and I will copy it and I will paste it as the title and I will say a creative levitation photograph photograph with my daughter Victoria okay there you go everything saves automatically you've now got a lesson on how to make a meditation photograph hope you guys have liked it thanks for watching thanks for following Victoria whatever you want to say thank you for watching this amazing edit video okay thanks for watching [Music]