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- 3h 36mof 4K video
- Advancedfor experienced editors
- 12 Sample Images6 RAW + 6 JPEG
- 5 Layered PSDsto follow along
- Captionsand chapters on every lesson
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Description
Master advanced landscape editing in Photoshop and Adobe Camera RAW. Learn precise adjustments for exposure, contrast, color, and light with the AI landscape masking in Camera Raw and Lightroom. It doesn’t edit your photo for you. It gives you accurate selections of the sky, mountains, water and vegetation, so every adjustment lands exactly where you want it. We take six RAW photographs from start to finish, from cactus-covered mountains at sunrise to a glacier ice cave.
Explore advanced techniques for sky replacement and color grading that will help you transform your landscape photos into professional-quality images. You’ll learn how to choose a sky and make almost any sky match your photo, with a manual approach that gives you more control than the one-click Sky Replacement. You’ll also target single colors with Point Color, recover highlights and shadows, correct lens distortion and vignetting, add light rays and a warm sunset glow, and create a focal point so the viewer looks exactly where you want. Download the included RAW files, sky images and PSDs to follow along every step of the way.
What You’ll Learn
- Make precise exposure and color adjustments in Camera Raw
- Replace skies and grade color for a professional look
- Mask skies, mountains, and more with AI-powered selection tools
Table of Contents
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Transform Your Landscapes
Advanced Landscape Editing in Photoshop
Capturing nature’s vast beauty and intricate details with just a camera can be challenging. Ever wonder how those stunning travel and landscape photos are made? The secret lies in using Photoshop and Camera RAW. This tutorial will show you how to perfect exposure, recover hidden details, master color grading, and even create light rays.
Creating Natural Enhancements
Landscape photography is a unique craft, and landscape editing in Photoshop has its own rules. We’ll show you how to edit these images with a focus on composition, simplicity, and natural, realistic adjustments.You’ll learn techniques to enhance your photos without making them look overly processed, ensuring the final image truly reflects the beauty you witnessed.
Explore Photoshop & Camera RAW
Photoshop and Camera Raw have powerful tools for landscape editing designed to help image makers of all types. From RAW adjustments, to color grading, to sky replacement, learn how to use each to enhance your nature and landscape photos! We also recommend learning The Beginner’s Guide to Travel Photo Editing, the perfect addition to the landscape photographer’s toolkit.
Perfect Exposure
Correcting exposure is the first step in landscape editing in Photoshop: it can transform your photos, revealing hidden details and creating a more harmonious image. Learn how to balance out exposure, dialing down the brightness of the sky, while lightening the shadows of the ground below.
Sky Replacement
Once we’re done teaching you the basics, we’ll take your skills to the next level with AI sky replacement! Imagine swapping out dull skies for vibrant sunrises or dramatic sunsets, all with a few clicks. AI sky replacement lets you create the perfect mood and lighting, making your adventures truly shine.
Advanced Masking
Discover the exhilarating power of advanced masking tools, the heart of advanced landscape editing in Photoshop! This tutorial goes beyond basic selections, teaching you to wield absolute control. You’ll learn to target specific areas for flawless color correction and creative enhancements by adding to your selections for ultimate coverage, and subtracting unwanted details with precision.
Bring Back Details
Sometimes, even a great shot can miss some of the magic. Photoshop offers a friendly helping hand to recover those hidden gems. We can unveil the intricate details in a rocky cliff face, or leafy textures dancing in sunlight.
Professional Sharpening
Sharpening is the best way to finish off landscape editing in Photoshop. Learn Aaron’s must-know sharpening technique that will bring out intricate details and add stunning clarity to your landscape photographs, making them truly pop without introducing unwanted artifacts.
Adding Sun Flares
Learn to craft stunning light glows and realistic sun flares! We’ll show you how to enhance sunset effects using gradients with specific blend modes and color customization. Discover techniques to create dynamic light rays with the Radial Blur filter, adding ethereal light and depth to your images, perfectly mimicking natural flares and boosting your scene’s atmosphere.
Non-Destructive Editing
Ditch the fear of editing! Non-destructive landscape editing in Photoshop lets you experiment freely. Rewind to your original photo anytime and adjust edits on the fly. No more starting from scratch! In this tutorial, we’ll show you the best worry-free workflow to get the best results.
Global Color Harmony
Beyond localized edits, we’ll show you how landscape editing in Photoshop handles global color adjustments to harmonize your landscape photos. Learn to leverage Point Color to enhance specific hues throughout the entire image, like boosting vibrant yellows. Explore the powerful Color Grading panel to infuse your mid-tones, shadows, and highlights with complementary tints, achieving a cohesive and artful overall look.
Using Smart Objects
Smart Objects are key for a flexible and professional workflow. We’ll show you how opening your raw files as Smart Objects enables truly non-destructive adjustments. This means you can apply transformations and filters without ever sacrificing image quality, giving you ultimate flexibility and control throughout your landscape editing workflow.
Hands-On Practice Files
To give you the best learning experience, this landscape editing in Photoshop tutorial comes with six RAW landscape files for you to download. By editing right alongside us, you’ll get hands-on practice with the exact same starting images. This helps you truly understand every technique and master the full editing process from start to finish, seeing the amazing changes happen.
Class Instructor
Aaron Nace
PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor
Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. He has been teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography since 2011, and has taught at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.
Aaron publishes a free tutorial every week and a new in-depth PRO course every month.
- 2M+YouTube subscribers
- 160M+video views
- 1,000+tutorials published
- 15years teaching Photoshop
Special thanks to Cora Rose and Jose Vilchez of Art We There Yet, and to Chris Staats of Staats Productions, for providing the RAW images used in this tutorial.
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Great first tutorial on advanced landscaping. I have been using the select sky in Photoshop and thought it was pretty good. But in Aarron’s words they are just “okay.” This is a great method, and I will be using this method from now on. I have been enjoying all your tutorials in your pro courses so far. Thank you, Rob Tatham
Very useful thank you. I haven’ t taken a tutorial in ACR since learning Photoshop via Creative Live so this was a great refresher, and also handy to know that the sky replacement tool is skippable (it seems to result in gargantuan file sizes). Somebody else has said this, but it would be interesting to see your approach to night sky images, and also perhaps some tutorials on creative (non-natural) colour manipulation / grading of natural images. The latter would be very useful for the composite workflow as I often find myself departing significantly from the colours in my images and it can be hard to keep things looking somewhat realistic to the eye.
I have just finished watching the full tutorial. I thought the tutorial was excellent. It fully explained the use of thew editing tools in Camera Raw. Then when moving into Photoshop it gave ideas of how to finish the final image. Great explanation of masking in Camera Raw and also how to create your own masks.The tutorial gave me the enthusiasm and motivation to work on my own images. Thanks to Aaron and his staff for a great tutorial.
Great tutorial. I am only part way through it and it is fantastic. Definitely great for learning Landscape editing. Please keep the tutorials coming. Really informative.
Very good tutorial as always ! Keep up this good work. Cheers, Guy
Great learning experience, R\real world applications. Thank you!
I am relatively new to Photoshop and primarily shoot landscapes. This course alone was worth the price of the annual subscription. The various adobe camera raw masks and adjustments, especially the manual sky replacement demos, were outstanding. I also greatly appreciated the thoughts on WHAT to correct/enhance in an landscape image as was demonstrated with all photos, but the ice cave photo demo was awesome.
I was struggling with a photo that has fog in the background with an orange sky shining through. What I learned about Camera Raw was just what I needed. I was trying to get the orange out of the sun. The photo is still not perfect, but I’m getting there thanks to your tutorials. I’m looking forward to the next section to continue learning more about correcting landscapes.
Great tutorial. Additional chapter needed on use of depth mask to enhance 3d in landscape. Also there was no coverage on the intersect mask.
Another great tutorial, really looking forward to using these techniques on my future and past landscape shots.
Great tutorial, Aaron. Following along has been important for practicing and your teaching pace is perfect for such method. I see post processing moving toward to LR and CR more than to PS recently. Interesting shift from Adobe.
This is such a great tutorial. It is so well presented and thorough. It has to be a great asset to anyone wanting to make the most of their landscape photography, and bring their editing skills to ‘next level’ status.
Great tutorial Aaron. I enjoy using Canera Raw and mixing between that and Photoshop. Would you make a tutorial on how you bring two or more people in to one image? Connecting B&W, Color Balance and more? A 2025 setting! Thanks again for the videos!
Thank you Aaron for such an awesomely presented course. It’s so easy to follow along and in doing so I’m learning so much. You’re helping this oldie accomplish Photoshop skills way beyond a level I thought I would achieve. Well done.
Experimenting in real time is so nice, Aaron has a nice sense of humor.
i really enjoyed that, i liked the light rays at the end of the final image. i would like to see more composite image creation and blending techniques
Aaron explains all the necessary techniques in a very understandable, practical, and personable manner. Thank you, Aaron. Best regards, Dieter, Switzerland
Fantastic tutorial! I’d love to see MORE landscape edits that include adding final special effects/actions (Orton, lighting effects, etc) in Photoshop. Also would like to know how/when you address noise reduction in your work flow (LR/Topaz?). Love to see you edit a few night sky images. Always learn so much from Aaron! Thank you!!!
Very nice review and explanation of the new tools available.
great tutorial as always. You always learn something new from Aaron. The sky replacement is invaluable for creating realistic skys
Excellent tutorial, thanks! However, do not like the herky-jerky camera work shooting Aaron as he’s talking. Rough, unnatural, dizzying, and unsettling.