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hey everyone it's Mike here from Filter
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grade and today I have a little tutorial
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for all the street and urban
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photographers out there so if you find
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yourself taking a lot of pictures in the
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city or in urban environments this might
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be helpful to you basically we're going
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to create a faded sort of Moody tone to
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your images and here's a little preview
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like so as you can see it adds a lot of
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color to the shadows and brings out some
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of the texture in this photo and it can
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be really useful if you're just trying
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to have a nice look on some of your
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photos in the city so to get started I
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recommend opening your image in raw and
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editing the light first if you take uh
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photos on a DSLR if not just bring it
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right into Photoshop and then you can
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start here so the first thing we're
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going to do is create an adjustment
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layer and that adjustment layer will be
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a curves layer um the curves help bring
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out some of the light and color in this
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image so we're going to start by
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clicking right about here and dragging
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up to about there and as you can see
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that brightens the image quite a bit a
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little bit too much then click the top
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point and drag it about 1/3 of the way
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down this sort of Blends the light uh in
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the image as a whole and then finally
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click here and drag this point down to
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sort of straighten this curve out at the
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bottom so that it's more gradual and
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this makes sure that the image doesn't
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get blown out too much and blends the
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color a lot so that's it for the curves
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adjustment next create a uh photo filter
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adjustment layer and turn the and switch
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from warming filter to sepia and then
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change the density to about
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45% and this will just add a nice sepia
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tone to your image but it's a little too
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harsh right now so bring it double click
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your photo filter layer and bring it
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opacity and then it adds just a nice
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subtle tint to the image so it's not too
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powerful but it's just enough to give it
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something uh after that click the
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adjustment layer again and this time
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we're going to select brightness
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contrast now for this you're going to
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just very simple adjustment just turn up
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brightness to four and contrast to -3
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and that's all you have to do and then
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finally we're going to create a
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selective color adjustment layer and
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this is where you get those deep tones
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in the image uh we're just going to play
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with the whites neutrals and blacks for
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this image but you can adjust every
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single level of color with Selective
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colors which is kind of cool um to start
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go to the blacks and we're going to turn
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the Canan up to about eight and then
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everything else below that will just be
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1% next adjust the neutrals uh we're
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going to turn Canan up to three this
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one and then finally in the whites we're
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just going to adjust Canan to -10 and
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yellow to 10 and that'll be it for
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that and then I know I said finally but
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there's actually one more effect you
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want to add um click the adjustments
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panel and then then click
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Vibrance and we're just going to turn
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the Vibrance up to about eight and the
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saturation to -5 and this will just
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boost the Vibrance in the image and then
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turning saturation to neg5 helps avoid
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oversaturating an image and it gives it
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a slightly uh toned look which is nice
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photography and then after that you can
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close that and we'll group the layers up
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and that's about it for the street photo
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effect so let me just turn this on and
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off against so you can see what it looks
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like so here's before sort of just a
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regular image and then here's after with
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the tones applied as you can see it adds
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some nice shadows and texture to an
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image and it can really help with your
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street photography so I hope you enjoyed
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this tutorial uh if you have any
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questions feel free to leave a comment
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below I'd be happy to help you out and
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uh please subscribe to the channel we're
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going to have a lot more tutorials
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coming out soon thanks so
