Photoshop Live Editing Session - Adding Foreground Interest to a Landscape Photo
In this video, I use Photoshop to add some foreground interest to a Landscape image and correct an unbalanced composition. Part of my “Live Editing” session series normally for Patreon Members, I’m making this episode available to everyone on YouTube.
I took this photo of the famous lake in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, in Ireland a few years ago, and while it’s ok, I was never fully happy with it. The problem with the original is that it lacks balance without something in the foreground. So I looked through the rest of my phots and found a piece of driftwood, and used photoshop to composite that into the original. In the tutorial, I show you how to quickly cut it out using the new object selection tool in photoshop, and then how to blend the object into the new background using various tools.
Here’s the original image used int he tutorial (after some tweaking in Capture One)…
Original Photo (With just some basic edits in Capture One)
And here’s the final composite, with some additional effects in Photoshop
Final Composite
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