To get rid of the red spot and leaf, I just click on the Layers button, which brings up a new window. Once again, removing these annoyances is made easy thanks to Heal/Clone Layer abilities built right into AfterShot Pro. These small details can really distract a viewer from the hear of the image, and while you might not see them at first glance, it is important to give your photos a good study before you export the final edited image. Instantaneously, the photo looks perfectly balanced!Īt this point, this photo is looking pretty good to my eyes… but there are a couple of things still bugging me that I’ll need to fix before I’m ready to export.įirst off, in the vines up in the top right there is what appears to be some sort of reddish dot, and in the bottom right is a yellow leaf that is much brighter and bigger than the rest of the leaves in this image. You simply click the eyedropper tool next to the white balance drop-down menu, and click on what is supposed to be a white spot in your image. AfterShot Pro has a great built-in function that allows me to choose a white spot in the image to correctly adjust the white balance. Look to the left of the photo below…In the photo below on the left, you can see that the camera’s auto white balance made the scene appear a bit blue. There’s no need to add sharpening to the out-of-focus, or bokeh, areas. The reason I did this in the Adjust Layer is because I only wanted to sharpen the model, which it turns out conveniently was the area that I brightened in the layer as well. While still in the Adjust Layer 1, and still zoomed in at 100% on her face, I slowly bring up the Sharpening slider until I’m happy with the results. On this particular photo, I can see that her face is not as sharp as I like it. Next, I want to zoom in on the model’s face at 100% to check for sharpness. Let’s start with this image of our model, one of the four I selected earlier. With the culling and rating out of the way, it’s time to get down to work on these photos.
No need to buy extra culling software, wait for my images to import to a catalog, or even wait for the previews to load. The best part-I did it all in AfterShot Pro… It was fast & super easy.įor me, the best part was that I did it all in AfterShot Pro. It took me four rounds of going through all of my images, and a total of about 20 minutes. Now I need to cull my images, removing the bad ones and rating my favorites. You’ll find a whole post dedicated to this process in Part 1 of this series, Rating and Culling Your Images in AfterShot Pro.Īfter starting with more than 1,000 images, I’ve now narrowed the field down to my 4 favorites. QUICK TIP: For even more space, try switching the layout thumbnail preview panel from vertical to horizontal by using hotkey ‘Cmd+L’ (Mac) or ‘Ctrl+L’ (Windows and Linux). Let’s go ahead and collapse the Directory View so I have more room to view my images and fewer distractions on my screen.
Just double-click on the folder and watch the images instantly populate in a thumbnail preview panel. Once that’s done, and with AfterShot Pro 2 open, I click on File System in the Directory View (found on the far left side of my screen), then navigate to the correct folder. To begin, I create separate folders for Day 1 and Day 2 with the model and move the corresponding photos from my memory card to my hard drive. The main goal is to get this number down to something I can work with. The first step is getting my images off my memory card and narrowing down the field. This is obviously a huge number of photos, and more than the model or I will need. Recently, I spent a couple days shooting a model in London and over the course of the two days I took more than 1,000 photos. It’s likely my RAW photo workflow may differ from yours or other photographers out there, but we’ll start at the beginning with the basics and make our way through my entire workflow process as a baseline to help get you started. AfterShot is so incredibly easy to use and with a few quick tips, you’ll be on your way to some truly amazing results. Today, we’re going to dig a little deeper and take a look at how I post-process my RAW photos when I come back from a shoot or traveling on vacation.
If not, you can always download the free 30-day trial now so you can follow along with this tutorial. Hopefully, since then, you’ve taken my advice and have made the jump.
In Part 1 of this series, I showed you the powerful rating and culling abilities of AfterShot Pro and how they can make it easy it is to make the switch from Lightroom.