Overview
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Learn how to use Camera Raw and Photoshop to make your night and low-light photos look their best. Explore the basics like noise reduction, as well as more advanced techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Enhancing your night photography skills
- What you should know
- Working with Camera Raw from Bridge
- Set overall tonal balance
- Use neutral guides to set white balance
- Color balance for creative effect
- Use Dehaze on night photos
- Removing chromatic aberration
- Fine-tune with local adjustments
- Synchronize settings to multiple files
- How exposure affects noise levels
- Camera Raw for noise reduction
- Open a raw file as a Smart Object
- The Reduce Noise filter
- Photoshop Dust & Scratches filter
- Merge to HDR in Camera Raw
- Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop
- Toning 32-bit HDR files in Camera Raw
- Saving 32-bit HDR files in Photoshop
- Layer stacking to blend lighter areas
- Aligning misaligned layers
- Combine exposures with a layer mask
- Refine with creative adjustments
- Retouching airplane light trails
- Exposure stacking to create star trails
- Create a star comet effect
- Create a luminosity mask
- Luminosity masks for the Milky Way
- Making a constellation more visible
- Removing blurry stars
- Adding new stars
- Next steps
