Photo Edit 1 — Two-Story Renovated Home

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Transcript of the recorded lesson. Recorded 2023, reviewed 2026.

In this video we're going to do another professional photos editing video. So let's get into it. Alright, so this one is going to be number four. So first things first, we're going to go into Adobe DNG converter. We're going to select that folder. So let's go here to desktop four, select, and then we're going to select save in the same location. We're going to select a folder, which is for new folder. We'll call it DNGs, or DNG, select. Now we have all of our settings dialed in, so let's go ahead and hit convert. Now we have 219 images that's converting. Now this process does not take too long.

So while that's doing that, I'm going to go ahead and open Adobe Lightroom to start getting things ready there. And it looks like it's already finished converting. So I'm going to go ahead and hit quit. Now we're going to import those DNG files right here into Lightroom. So let's go to import. And now we'll go to desktop. This is four, and it is DNG. And now we'll just use the lens correction import setting. So just import. It's just going to adjust for the lens distortion that we were shooting with. All right, so all of these are now imported. So from here, we're going to apply the pre-merge interior preset here.

So where do we start? We start here in the inside and then scroll down to right before we go outside. Shift select. And now we'll go over here to the presets, user presets. And then we're going to select pre-HDR interior.

It's going to make some minor adjustments to the images. Now we're going to hit Command A. We're going to go to photo stacking. And we're going to auto stack by capture time. Three seconds should be good. Hit start or stack, sorry. Now all these are in stacks of three. So that's good. Now we're going to go ahead and right click and hit photo merge HDR. And now it's going to start merging. It looks like we have 75 images. And we're going to let this process play out before we start. Or actually, we're going to let this play out before we continue the editing process. All right, so the HDR merge has just completed.

So we're going to go ahead and add all the HDR merged images to the quick collection. So I'm going to select the first one, hold down shift, and then hit B. And then they all go to the quick collection. Now to curiosity, I'm going to take a look at what are we at? Folder. Let me see the folder for just to see how long it took to blend all these. So if I go to add it, let's go to HDR right here. So we start at 103 and then we ended at 112. So it took nine minutes to blend the 73 images. So first things first, let's go over here.

I'm going to go ahead and put the presets on them. So we'll do exterior there. And then we'll do exterior here. All right. And then we'll do the interior shots, apply post HDR. Actually, what I'm going to do is do profile and straight to see if I can get that straightening to work if I apply the second preset. I'm not sure what's going on. I might just have to create a new preset here. But the post HDR interior preset, yeah, it's definitely not. Let me go ahead and undo that. So what I'm going to do, I'm just going to do the interior ones. Let's start with the profile straight.

Actually, I'll do profile straight auto. Have it do auto settings to see where we stand. This also is a great way to start as well because sometimes presets don't work that well from property to property. So oftentimes, if I'm not in the mood to really use too many presets, obviously they're used to save time, right? Those things that you do repetitively, those settings that you're always adjusting. So it's a good way to start. So let's go ahead and so I feel confident with the presets that we have applied. Now I'm going to go through. They're all in the quick collection. Now I'm just going to go through and see if we have any repetitive angles or angles that we just want to remove from the beginning.

Not a huge fan of this electrical box, but I think it's still important to get that sight shot of the home. All right, so we got several down here. We have two in the bathroom. So I'm assuming that my second one was a better shot. So I'm going to keep that one. I don't really like this photo too much. It doesn't really show too much. Let me see if I have a shot that kind of shows the go through. I think I know why I shot this like this, but I'm going to go ahead and remove it. We have some excellent photos here. I like those ones better.

And I think we'll get a good idea of the flow and some other angles here. So let's go through. We're seeing we're upstairs. We've got the master, master bathroom, closet, and obviously these ones, the auto-aligned did not work properly. We'll adjust those when we get there. All right, so I'm going to start with the top and we'll just go from the beginning. So I actually like this photo as is. I'm not going to make any adjustments. Same with that one. Now the only thing with these is that you have a sky that's cloudy sky. I actually don't mind the cloudy sky. Some of your customers might prefer a blue sky.

But if you're going to do the blue sky, you're going to have to do it on all the photos because it's not going to look right if you just do a sky replacement on one. So actually what I'm going to do right now is while we're here, it's a cloudy day on this one. So let's go ahead and edit it in Photoshop and do a quick sky replacement on this just to see how it looks. And then we'll determine if we want to do it on the rest of them or just leave it as is. So in Photoshop here, let's go to, let me just adjust it here.

Let me zoom in a little. All right, and then we're going to go to edit sky replacement. This is definitely not the sky we're looking for. We want a blue midday sky. Maybe a cloudy sky because you can tell it was cloudy. Maybe we just want something with a little more texture. That actually looks good. Honestly, I like it. So I'm going to go ahead and roll with it. I think it looks good. So I'm going to hit X and hit save. So I do think it does look a little bit better than this, I would say. So let's go ahead and we'll do a quick sky replacement on all these.

Sky replacement, same sky. And maybe how it's adjusting the lighting on the rest of the images. On the rest of the image, I wasn't a huge fan because I could tell. So I'm going to just reduce that a little bit. I'll save it. I don't want to spend too much time on this. Remove that one. All right, so we've got more cloudy sky. And this is the one that started the whole conversation because it's super, super gray. Edit, sky replacement. That looks good. I like the lighting before it. It made the lighting adjustment. So yeah, I think that makes the house look a little more warm and inviting.

So I'll come back here, hit B, remove that from the quick collection. All right. And last one for the front. We'll see if it picks up the sky correctly here. Looks pretty good. I'm just going to reduce the lighting adjustment. Hit OK. Exit out and save it for this one with B. All right, so it looks pretty good. Now this one has my videographer in the window. I'm not going to deal with removing that. So I'm just going to remove that shot. All right, so this is a good starting point here in the home. I just like them a little bit brighter. Let's reduce highlights.

I think this looks pretty good. Just copy paste. Now let me double check my transform. Actually, did it work? Yeah, there was no transform on these ones. So you can see how they're adjusted. Looks better. Let me go through and just make sure that we get some solid transforms on these images before I begin since my presets are giving me some problems. And even if I copy the transform here, because usually you'd be able to select the upright mode, hit copy, and then it just, if you paste it right here, it would paste that transform mode, but it's not working. So that's all right. We're going to do it the manual way.

You can just see how it's actually changing the images. That's why I say a lot of times when you're shooting, you don't have to be perfect. You just have to be pretty good. Your camera can't be way off and expect this tool to fix it, but it just has to be pretty close. I like to better off. I kind of, whoops, just want to jump in and start editing when I'm seeing these, how dark they are. But we'll get there. 70.

It looks like there was a little bit of an adjustment with the setting I had, but... Now oftentimes this day was clearly overcast. It can make some of the better interior photos, you know, because the light difference between interior and exterior aren't that drastic. And one thing that I'm looking at these particular photos is I don't know if my lens hood was crooked or not, but in a lot of the photos, if you're looking at it, it's like darker in this corner right here, which is kind of odd. Almost look like a vignette in a lot of the interior photos or something I was definitely

looking at. Here's some of those bonus shots we shot out there. All right, that's it. So let's go through the library. They're all straight.

Now I don't think... I did kind of scroll through and make sure that I wasn't delivering some of the same images. I'm going to get rid of a few of them though. As I was going through that, I did notice that some of them weren't that different from the others. They didn't add that much value from that perspective. So actually I like the corner and the straight on shot on that. All right, so we did the front. We started on the interior shots, but yeah, you see this dark corner, which I don't know what that was. But what we can do if you have some issue like that, first you want to lock your aspect ratio

or whatever so it doesn't just bring it down. What I'm going to do is just copy. Now let's see if the crop method is going to work. If I crop not the straight angle or aspect ratio, or is it? I think it's just the aspect ratio. Let me see. Oops. Let me be done. So I'm going to copy the transform. Just the aspect ratio. Let me see if it just punches in on... Yeah, for some reason it's just... Let me try it both. Maybe that was the wrong setting. Let's try it again.

All right, now it's working. All right, so it looked like it was only visible on the interior photos. I didn't see it too heavy in the backyard. I'll do the port shots as well. I'm going to go ahead and paste the settings here. All right, so that should get rid of that on these images. That was odd. I didn't even notice that when we were at the house. All right, so let's go ahead. I'm not going to check all. We'll uncheck Transforming Crop. Now we're going to run through the house, just brightening them up. This one should be pretty straightforward because the lighting is very similar throughout

the house. They did an excellent job on the colors. The wall colors are the same. It's all kind of a gray toned house. I think these will need minimal adjustments. It's when you have multiple different colors of lighting and all kinds of... Let me change this back to Ash Shot. Change that to Ash Shot. All right, let's see. Looks excellent. Looks good. Now it's kind of dark over here, so I'm going to grab this brush tool. We got some exposure brush. Let's boost it up a little more still.

That's all right. I'll paste Warmer. I'm pretty happy so far with these images. Obviously, we had that issue with that dark corner. It looks like it's fixed with that crop paste here. Brighten it up a little bit. Maybe reduce highlights to get a little bit more views outside. I'm going to copy this one since I already boosted exposure a bit. Looks pretty good. Right now in this shot, I can clearly see myself in the mirror. Sometimes with a lot of lines here, I'm not trying to remove myself entirely. I just don't want it to be visible that a person was standing right there. If I grab a corner, the thing is I don't know where it's grabbing the other thing,

but even just making that change right there, it doesn't look that great. At least you can tell it wasn't a person standing there. Just always try to look for things that are kind of distracting. Right here, we see the lens and it's pretty close to the edge of this image. What we can do is just bring in the image a little bit to get that out of the image. Just see. That still looks good. Let's paste here. Bring that up a bit.

Now, since that's the same room, it's probably going to be too much. Not too bad. Drop it down a little bit. This shot needs a little bit more texture. Let's add some clarity. Right now we're back on the outside.

I'm just going to bring it up. I'm going to do all the backyard shots before I do the sky replacement. I'm kind of just looking at the rest of the image. I'm not too focused on the sky. I just want to get a nice look. All right. These two are pretty similar. Which one's better? I don't know. This one, I'll get rid of it. I probably like that one better. Let me get rid of this.

This time, I'm going to do it a little bit different. You could go one by one real quick in Photoshop. In this case, there are several different skies that need to be replaced. I'll show you two methods. Hopefully the second method works out. What I'm going to do is just export these ones. I'm going to show you the second method after I do the Photoshop method. Let's put these. We'll do a sub folder in the finish. Actually, this is going to be folder number four. Desk top four.

I'll call this batch sky. We'll choose that. We're not going to put in a sub folder. We'll just call this sky. Hopefully it works out. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but we'll see if we can get it to work here. Now I'm going to go into... Let me see if I can just open all these. I'll keep an eye on the time. It's 1.33. Just to see which method is faster. We're opening 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 photos.

We'll just do... It actually might be pretty fast here. Let's go. Sky replacement. Once we dial into one, reduce that lighting effect. We'll keep the same sky as before. That's good.

A quick button for the sky replacement feature. Looks great. Let's go in along pretty smooth here. Actually, pretty fast. But if you had way more than this, the other method might be faster. But I think the result is really good right now. The replacement. You saw how that lighting just really messed up the shot. Let's go here. Adjust. You saw how it looks cloudy. We need to adjust that lighting. That goes away. Sometimes you want that look to bleed into your photo. Let's go ahead and hit exit. And hit save. Save. Save. That was 10 photos. That was actually pretty quick. These photos look much better than the cloudy skies

that we had previously. What I'm going to do is just remove all of the cloudy sky ones. Just click and B on them. That is it. Now I'm going to do one last check on these photos. They look pretty good. I feel pretty happy about them. Let's go ahead and export. We're going to export. Not into the batch sky. We're going to do four. We're going to do new folder and call it finished. Choose. And at 80%. Export. 67 photos exporting right now. That's going to do it for this set of edits. But before we go on this one, we'll see what we can do with that batch sky replacement.

Oops. I don't need a smart folder. All right. Let's go to the desktop. Let's go for. Let's go batch sky. All right. So when we do batch sky replacements, use Luminar 4. This version. Actually, I'm just going to quit. All right. Well, Luminar 4 is going to have to update. So I'm going to have to do this on another property to show you the batch processing of the sky. But honestly, the individual processing in Photoshop was actually pretty fast. So it's actually a very good option. Luminar 4 is also a decent option when you're doing several different skies. But I don't see you doing more than 10 or 15 on a particular property. So anyways, reach out if you guys have any questions. We'll see you guys on the next one.