Digital Joint wrote:
WOW, Christmas came early this year, Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to passing on your knowledge!

Haha, indeed. Thank you.

Imageri by Tim Davis wrote:
Why would you take the grains of sand from the male model's body? And why would you take every single tussle of hair from the female model's hair? The are on a BEACH. You took the things that made the image "real" and eliminated them.

Unsolicited critique! Not allowed here!!

Be grateful someone willing to share his knowledge.

Imageri by Tim Davis wrote:
Why would you take the grains of sand from the male model's body? And why would you take every single tussle of hair from the female model's hair? The are on a BEACH. You took the things that made the image "real" and eliminated them.

I explain that in the videos. If I'm not mistaken, Part 10 is about that very same image. But don't forget this is meant primary as educational material, so in certain times I would remove or add things for the sake of demonstration, and I explain when I do why I did it. People asked me how would I remove the sand, so when I removed it it was partly to explain how. It made more sense to be part of the same series, than to try to find a completely different image and try to show it there. Also removing the sand is showing how to remove something else in the image, since the principle is the same. I used the editorial series, to give structure to the tutorials but also something I can use to explain a particular topic in each episode. If you watch the videos you will also see why I made the choices I did.

You can disagree off course, but it is true that this part of forum is not for that kind of discussion, but if you have something more to say, feel free to send me a private message.

Chuckarelei wrote:

Unsolicited critique! Not allowed here!!

Be grateful someone willing to share his knowledge.

It wasn't a critique, but an observation. Besides it's knowledge I already know.

Jean Renard Photography wrote:
Thanks for you work.

quick question, is there a simple way to access camera raw from lightroom?

Depends on what you mean by simple way, hehe? As you can see in that last tutorial, you can open the image from Lightroom as smart object inside Photoshop and than use smart object to access camera raw. Other than that, there is no need. Develop module in Lightroom is essentially Camera Raw.

Curious. Why do ask, what were you trying to achieve? Maybe there is a better alternative.

Jean Renard Photography wrote:
I am trying to establish a smart workflow for a lot of diverse images.  The controls in both interfaces are slightly different and wondered why one would use one or the other.

I see how to open the image as a smart object. Until I watched your tutorial I had never used that.  I do not use photoshop very much but increasingly am being forced to. 

The Gucci stuff that I shot ages ago achieved all the stuff you go into with a simple polarizing filter, highlights were with reflectors (scrim jim) or foil and gaffer tape for specular highlights,  there was no real retouching in any of the images, but that was film and now digital is a totally different animal.

Thank you, I am on part 5

For at least some of the reasons why would I use Lightroom over Camera Raw in the last episode (part 12) I cover that in much more detail and you can probably watch it independently of the other parts, so you might want to check that out.

But in simple terms. For only few images that I need to open and work on, Camera RAW + Bridge from a retouchers point of view makes more sense. For a situation where I'm working with more images and they are from the same series, the same project, make more sense for me personally at least to use Lightroom. It offers me more flexibility for managing more files. In that videos I mention I explain in detail why and how?

As for a Photographers it almost seems like no brainier to take advantage of everything Lightroom has to offer compared to Camera RAW + Bridge workflow. You should look more into it for sure. If yo have specific questions afterwords, feel free to ask.

Cheers!

Retouching by Ryan wrote:
Thank you for these videos! I am slowly but surely looking at every one, and my retouching has already improved as a result.

Thank you Ryan, I'm glad to you are also benefiting from them.

Krunoslav Stifter wrote:
Part 13 of Editorial Retouch From Start To Finish series is uploaded. Cheers!

Capture One Pro is a professional raw converter with some very powerful features and in this video I will be covering a workflow using Capture One and Photoshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5cCnz2AdgM

As much as I like C1 and use it sessions and catalogs do my head in, your explanation is clearer that Phase One C1 tutorials.
You find some photographers will employ a Capture digital Operator as C1 can be a minefield.