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hey everyone this is Mason from filter
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grade today we're going to be using the
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Adobe Lightroom mobile app to edit urban
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and city photos the urban look relies
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heavily on a moody D saturated look and
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when we go into detail on which tools to
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use to achieve this look and how to use
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them this is not a be-all end-all of
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tutorials because every image is a
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little bit different experiment around
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with some of these settings to achieve
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your desired look but hopefully this
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gives you a good baseline we're going to
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start by importing our image into
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Lightroom so we have this image of a
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stairway lots of concrete we've got some
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yellow lines some yellow details in the
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background but a very city setting here
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so the first thing that we're gonna do
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are bring up our settings we're gonna go
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to the light tab 3 should start we might
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mess with the exposure later but we're
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gonna start by just slightly reducing
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the exposure we want it to be a little
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bit darker in here but we might end up
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adjusting that later next we're going to
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increase the contrast then we're going
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to increase highlights a little bit
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increase shadows a little bit increase
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the whites they're a little whiter and
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then decrease the blacks and then if we
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go into our curves you can set 3 markers
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here and then we're going to want to
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bring up our highlights a little bit
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bring up our mid-tones a little bit
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bring down the black slightly and then
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bring up the shadows just a little bit
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so they're a little bit into the gray
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tones there now we can go to the color
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tab here and the first thing we're gonna
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want to do is give it a slightly cooler
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temperature so we're gonna go a little
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bit into the blues here as you can see
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we're already making a lot of progress
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we have these deep moody shadows and the
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shadows are sort of in there
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blue tones now we're going to go to
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vibrance and we're going to decrease
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that a fair bit so it almost starts to
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become a black and white photo and we're
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going to increase the saturation a
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little bit this is going to make sure
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that the colors that we want to bring
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out our brought out very strongly and
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everything else is more subdued urban
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photography editing benefits from using
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orange tones and subduing everything
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else so if we go into the color mix tab
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here we're actually gonna take our reds
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and yellows and turn them Orange and
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then we're going to reduce everything
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except for our oranges so we take the
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red hue here move it Orange then we can
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increase the saturation and luminance a
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little bit but it's not too big of a
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deal if we go to Orange that looks good
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we're gonna up the luminance a little
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bit so it really comes out if we're
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gonna go to yellow also move that to
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orange and then everything else if we're
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going to turn the saturation all the way
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down so it pretty much just doesn't show
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up now as you can see that blue didn't
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really do what we wanted it to so we're
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gonna bring some of that back up we're
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gonna bring the Blues back into this
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image but obviously we don't want to go
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too far you know let's just keep them
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just a little bit lower than zero and
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then say done now we're going to go into
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some additional effects and we'll need
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to use a couple of these we're going to
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increase the clarity that sort of helps
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give it a a grungy look obviously I want
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to go too far but if we go just a little
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bit up that gives it some extra texture
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and we want to add a vignette a little
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bit yet there and then feather it so
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so we're looking pretty good right now I
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don't love how blown out this bottom
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stairway is though so I'm gonna go back
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to our lighting and see okay we can
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reduce our highlights yeah
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reducing our highlights really brings a
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lot of that texture back but our
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vignette is a little too much now sorry
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go back to vignette and reduce it so
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it's just barely there on the edges now
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we have a lot more texture gives it a
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lot more of a grungy Moody City look and
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now if you want to really give it some
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some of the blue moodiness we can go
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back and we can make the color
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temperature more blue let's undo that
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and then let's go back into here and
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we're gonna go to split toning and here
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we can actually decide what color the
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highlights and shadows should be and if
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we take those two a fairly desaturated
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blue for both of them that can kind of
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give us that dark slightly blue tone
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that we want as you can see the Blues
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are coming out and the oranges are
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coming out this is exactly what we want
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I think the only thing that would make
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this better is actually if we reduce the
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maybe the saturation a little bit as
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well we don't need as much saturation as
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it seemed like and here is our final
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product now let's try this one
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this one is a little bit different it's
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brightly lit has a very orange town this
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looks like it might be a bit of a
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challenge to turn into something dark
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and moody because the original photo was
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not dark and moody at all but this will
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show you that it doesn't matter what the
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original photo was you can really turn
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it into whatever you want it to be so
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we'll start with the exposure turning
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that down a little bit and we're gonna
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up the contrast actually I don't like
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how dark that became let's keep the
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exposure at zero for now and then we're
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going to increase the highlights a bit
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you increase the shadows increase the
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whites increase the blacks a little less
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highlights then go into our curves
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create our three points do the same
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thing we did before and arrays
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highlights raise the mid-tones lower the
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shadows bring up the blacks to a little
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more gray we're already getting sort of
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a photo filter look here but we're still
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very orange so we're gonna go to the
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color tab turn that temperature nice and
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blue now we have a nice more neutral
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tone going on and vibrance turn that way
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down saturation turn it a little bit up
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already looking good and if we go into
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the color mix as before we're gonna turn
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the reds and yellows into oranges boost
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the orange saturation then for
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everything else we're going to reduce
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the saturation down to nothing except
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for blue which we so really that's only
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adjusting the center where the buildings
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are you can see so we're gonna keep that
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relatively be saturated but not too bad
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can we make it darker
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and make it a little bit darker ooh but
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we don't want to change the luminance
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much it looks good as it is so I'll stay
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done and so far looking pretty good
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there's the original and here's what
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we've created so we could stop here if
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you wanted to other than adding a
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vignette of course always helps increase
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the feather on that vignette a little
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bit now I've got some pretty good to
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enhance this you could decrease the
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color temperature more if you wanted to
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get rid of some of those warm tones make
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it a little cooler and then you can also
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go into split toning again and make the
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highlights and shadows blue but in this
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case I don't think really adds much to
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the image we're gonna warm that back up
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a little bit and then let's go see if
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clarity does much for us oh yeah clarity
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will give us a bit grungier of a look
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this one's a little too much texture I
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think so we're gonna scale that back
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down to just a little bit there we go
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there's another piece of urban
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photography this one's a little less
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desaturate because there's a lot of
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orange tones in the buildings and
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everything so this one's a little bit
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warmer than the last one but still very
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grungy and urban well hopefully you
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found this video interesting this is of
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course a template if you will for
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editing urban photography as you can see
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I made a lot of adjustments on the fly
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this is not set in stone it doesn't work
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for everything so make sure that you
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take a photo that works for what you
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make sure that you are cautious of other
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colors in this case there was plenty of
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orange to work with but you know if
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there's plants or anything like that
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then you're going to need to adjust your
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greens make sure that nothing looks out
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of place if you desaturate everything
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and end up with a bright green tree that
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is now gray it might look a little weird
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even when you are trying to achieve that
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look so keep in mind that every photo is
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different and go out there and have fun
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