Photo Edit 2 — Large Vacant Home

Transcript

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

In this video we're going to go through the editing process from start to finish so let's get started. So the only thing I've done so far is copy the ARW raw images from the Sony camera to this folder. So we're going to start basically from scratch. So first things first we're going to open Adobe DNG converter and we're going to select that folder.

So we'll go to desktop and go to 18 and then I'm going to save in the same location and just create a new folder called DNGs and hit select. And we're going to have a maximum long side of 2048 so we're going to go ahead and hit convert.

Obviously if you hit the preferences you can go in and fine tune any of the settings that you see fit. But while that's finishing up so that's going to do 195 it's going to be pretty quick. So I'm going to go ahead and open Adobe Lightroom. Looks like it's about halfway done right now. All right conversion was successful so we'll go ahead and hit quit. Now we'll come over here to import and now what we're going to do is go to that 18. We're going to open that up and just select the DNGs. Now we'll import with let's see just the lens correction. We're just going to do a minimal build previews since we're really not going to be editing these. All right and then from here let me shrink down the thumbnails a bit. And then I'm going to select all the interior photos.

So we're from there hold down shift and push this button or click the last picture. And then come over here and go to user presets pre HDR interior. And that's just going to do just some slight adjustments before we do the HDR merge. And now I'm going to go ahead and hit command A. Then we're going to go to stacking auto stack by capture time three seconds. So we got 65 stacks. That looks good. Now if you want to confirm your HDR merge settings you can just select one image

and right click go to merge and go to HDR merge. So we're going to use auto align we're not going to do auto settings. We'll use our presets on this one. So I'm going to go ahead and hit command A and then go to photo merge HDR. And it's 551 we'll see it's usually about 10 photos per minute on the processing side of things.

So we'll just wait for this process to be finished. I'm actually what I like to do so that they're all at that end. We'll change the sort by to added order. So then the ones that were added last are at the very end which which are the HDR merged images. So anyways we'll let the computer do its thing. It's going to merge all of these. So once it's done then we're going to continue the editing process. All right so now the HDR merge process has completed. Now what we're going to do is add those HDR merged images to the quick collection. So we're going to select the first one and then the last one and hit B.

And now click over here on quick collection. I'm going to go through and I guess first thing I'll go ahead and apply the exterior. And the interior presets. So that's exterior. Select the interior shots. User presets post HDR interior. And then back here is going to be the exterior. All right next we're going to zoom in.

And before we start actually editing the photos we're just going to go through and make sure we like all the photos that we took.

Anyone that we don't like we'll go ahead and get rid of. Not a huge fan of this one but it shows how it goes through to the kitchen. So we'll keep it in there. Let's see before I forget.

I'll move I'm going to move the laundry room and the garage shots to the very end of the interior shots. So we'll move them right there.

Let me see. What I'm mainly concerned about is if we reshot a photo in any given location. If we reshot a photo in a given room.

That we don't deliver both to the customer. We don't want them to have to do a bunch of work removing photos that we probably shouldn't have included in the first place. This was a shot that I wasn't a huge fan of to begin with. I'm going to get rid of it. So just shows two walls.

Not nothing too interesting. Let's see about the exterior shots. They're all different. Add a little something extra. Alright. So I'm pretty happy with these ones. Let's go ahead and move over to develop and start editing the photos. So it looks like we got 64 photos potentially unless we decide to remove some more. This actually looks pretty good. Pretty accurate for the home. It's really bright out there. Let me reduce the whites just a little bit. That actually looks pretty good. Let's go ahead and keep going.

And we have the sign right here. So let's see if we can leave the post and just blur this out. Or we can try to remove the whole thing. But Lightroom definitely doesn't do a very good job editing. So let's see.

I guess this is probably the only one that we have to. So we're going to edit in Touch Retouch. And since it's a DNG file, it's going to convert it to a TIFF file. I'm going to go ahead and put it right next to the other one in the Quick Collection. So they're side by side. I'm going to go to Touch Retouch and then we'll zoom in on it. Should be a much quicker edit in this tool. We'll see.

You can press your luck if you want. Roll the dice. Do a big edit and see what it does. It's right up against the tree. So I don't know how it's going to look. We'll see. Actually, that's not too terribly distracting. I think I'm going to do a smaller size here. Let's zoom in a little bit more. Now we're not looking for perfection. Whoops. Go here.

And so let's just start here. We'll try to leave a little bit of gap. I'm going to do this straight up and down first. That looks all right. I will do this crossbar. And then I'm going to do the sign last. All right. That actually doesn't look too terribly distracting.

I mean, maybe if you're zoomed in looking at it right here, but we're going to go ahead and replace the file. So now let's see. There's with the sign. Let's see if it updated. Maybe I accidentally chose not to save it. Let me see if I can open recent real quick. Let's DJ. Oh my goodness. Lesson learned. Make sure to save your work, I guess. Here, let me click here. This must be the TIFF file right here. You'll know because if we can select edit original.

And you want to do that after you do your your adjustments. I'm going to go ahead and get rid of the other one. So there's no confusion there. And I'm just going to do it quick. Now that I showed you how it should be done. Maybe not.

Let me zoom back in and I'll do the same thing again. On the post. I'm going to do the crossbar. Then we'll do the sign. That time doesn't look as good. Save. Make sure I'm in the right folder. I am. And then we do want to replace. I think what I did, I hit cancel on accident. So honestly, that doesn't look the best. I think it looked better before. But it's not too distracting. If you're just looking at the house, right? So big, big thing about the signage is just to keep the agent in compliance. I'm all these outside photos look pretty good. All right, let me just reduce. And maybe a slightly warmer. There's a little bit too cool in the inside and a little bright.

This picture right here looks really bright. There's a lot of sun coming out. So we'll reduce the exposure so we can actually see the walls. And we'll just keep going here. Now this one, I don't know if it's crooked or not. There. I think the transform actually made it worse.

And this is kind of dark over here. So I'm going to take the exposure brush and we'll bring up. I guess it's already at a half stop up. Just kind of brighten it up over here. And we can always slide it up, make it brighter if we want. That looks all right. All right, let's keep going here. If any place, I'll actually spend a little more time in the kitchen.

Typically the best selling feature, obviously one of the features in the home that people look at the most when purchasing homes. And make it brighter over here. Bring down the exposure. Looks pretty good. All right, now this, the transform did something weird. You can see how it like, sure.

It like cropped it in. It looked like it. We can reduce whites. See the cabinets a little bit better. I think that's a little too warm. Looks all right. And we can always do a little bit of brushing if we need to.

Brighten it up. And probably a little bit on the cooler side. So let's bring up the temp or make the temperature a little warmer. Let's start here. Let's make it, I think it's been taken off the transform. I could tell a little bit on this one. All right, maybe a little bit cooler. You can obviously use the, the baseboards or something white in the room to set the white balance. Looks better.

All right, now white balance is definitely off. So I'll do that here. We'll click on the faceplate. That'll get it closer to reality. Now it's too warm. So let's bring it down a little bit. Maybe bring down the whites to be able to see a little bit more out the window.

And it might look a little bit soft so either we can increase clarity, mess with D-haze or contrast. That looks okay. Now our back out here, a lot of daylight. So let's, uh, all right, we'll set the white balance on the tub here. Looks pretty white. Yeah, that looks really good actually from a white balance perspective. All right, now we have our cameras to remove. This one was challenging because I have my monitor on the side. Usually you'll want to pick, you know, a wall or something that's easy, easily editable. So let me go ahead and just edit and touch, retouch.

So you can always try quick and see what it does. It's kind of a big area. So I don't think this is going to look so well. Usually you get a better result when you take smaller chunks. So let's zoom in. All right, object removal. All right, let's take, uh, camera first. Take the cord here. And we'll take the tripod head.

If you want to get, uh, you know, optimistic about it, you can definitely, uh, use a bigger spot. Now this has kind of been a weird spot. Let me see what I can do. I mean, this is one where we probably want to use the clone stamp. Let me, uh, change the size. I mean, definitely not perfect, but much better than what where we were.

Oops. Let me move this. Just get rid of that line. All right. Let me just finish. Let me make this a little bit more realistic. I'm going to go ahead and move this. I'm going to go ahead and move this. I'm going to go ahead and move this. Let me just finish. Let me make this a little bit bigger. See if we can go a little bit faster now that we're on the, uh, that, that wall.

All right. Try not to go too far. I'll like go pretty close, but not into any additional space. We'll see how that does. All right. I did a pretty good job. If you zoom back out, you can just see, you know, it's really not that distracting. That line is a little bit off. Let's do the clone stamp from up here. See if we can get a straighter line coming down.

I mean, that's still not perfect, but I think it's a little bit better than what it was. All right. Let's go ahead and save that. Replace. And there we are.

You can see a little bit of the camera over here in the mirror. You can get that out. That's not that big of a distraction for me to take it out. But if you're so inclined, feel free to do so. Let me just move this to where we were.

Get rid of the other one. All right. Now let's keep going in the bathroom. You paste here. Make it a little brighter on the inside here. All right. So here it's pretty good minus the, sorry, the white balance. So let me click the picker here. That's a little bit. Seems like a little bit too green. Whoops. Let's try to pick something else in here. Let's increase the magenta just slightly and reduce. There we go. That looks better. All right. So this actually looks pretty good as is. Let's keep going. This looks pretty good. It's kind of dark over here. So we can use that exposure brush. Exposure brush is nice and big. All right. Let's move on.

This one's kind of dark. So let's brighten it up. We can try to reduce the whites a little bit. Let's try to set white balance on. The baseboard, but that's a little bit. Let's see if this, that did it a little bit better. For some reason, this one does look a little bit hazy to me. Like there's a fog in the room, maybe from the lighting. You don't want to do de-haze too much because that just doesn't look very good. You can do contrast, clarity.

Let me redo the de-haze because you saw how bad these artifacts around the window looked. You can do clarity. You can just try different tools to try to get the result that you're looking for. I'm going to copy it, but I don't know. That actually doesn't look bad. All right. This one is definitely not straight. We'll turn that off. That looks much better. And then I'll exposure brush the interior. Let's do a quick wipe around. That looks okay. Not the best. These secondary bedrooms, I'm not that picky on. All right. Let's bring down the white balance. All right. Let's keep going. Set white balance on the shower. That's white. Bring down exposure. So we can actually see a little bit out that window. And bring up the exposure on the inside.

Let's see how this goes. It might have looked better just brighter overall in general. So I brightened up the edges. Let me brighten this up. Looks a little cool as well to me. Let me... All right. That looks all right. All right. Let's warm this one up. Super bright outside today. I just want to find a happy medium there. Maybe a little bit brighter inside. Slightly bright. Let's try to set white balance in here. That looks pretty accurate there to me. All right. Let's copy and keep going. Too dark. Bring that exposure up. Now let's try to set white balance over here by the window.

A little bit too warm. That right there looks pretty good to me. I'll reduce. So we can bring... We could bring the color temp down or if we just want to reduce a little bit of yellow since there's not a whole lot of yellow in the shot, we can go to saturation. Click that tool and then click on the wall and scroll it down. Which I think it looks pretty good. Just slightly desaturated on the yellows. All right. So now we're here. Auto settings does. All right. To me it's a little bit too blue. Let me warm it up a little bit. We can do the exposure brush on the inside. Looks all right. I mean I could be... I would be fine getting rid of that picture as well. All right. Grouch shots look good. Out here looks fine too.

Maybe a little dark under here. Just exposure brush. Maybe make it a little warmer too on that same selection. That looks all right. Let's keep going. Pretty dark over here. I mean honestly that's not really the focus of this shot. Mostly like the fire pit. Let me bring it up here. That looks all right. All right. Let's go ahead and click off. I think it made it worse. That's not that great either. Let me come up here and we'll make it more level like that. A little bit too much sky compared to what I would want to see. I think it's just because we're so high up that fence is pretty low. That picture looks all right. That looks all right. That is fine. Let's see what this one is.

To me it's just a little bit dark over here. So... Maybe just bring it up a little bit. That one looks all right. White balance definitely looks off a little bit. Looks a little better. You reduce the magenta's a little bit. Not bad. That one's good.

Maybe that one's a hair dark. And that's going to do it for these edits. So let's go back to library. We'll make the thumbnails a little bit bigger.

I'll just kind of quickly scam them. See if any of them are too dark. Quickly scam them. See if any photos stick out that really doesn't belong. Or the color doesn't look right. If any of them it's this one right here. This one looks a little bit too yellow. So either we can reduce the white balance. Or we can click the saturation and desaturate it a little bit. Go back to library. Now it doesn't stick out as much. The outside shots look pretty consistent. All right. So from here we're going to go ahead and hit command a. We're going to export. And then we're going to choose the folder. We're going to choose desktop 18. And then we're going to new folder finished. We're going to choose. And this one was Gilbert. Usually I just use a street name on that one. All right. Quality set to 80 percent. Resize to 2048. Which we've already done. And then we're going to export. And we can just double check our work. Make sure that the exports were completed correctly. So if we go here. The finished is at the bottom here. They should all be right around one megabyte. Which seems like they are.

So these photos are now ready to be delivered to the customers. And that's going to do it for this editing session. So if you guys had any additional questions on how to edit a property like this, feel free to reach out. And we'll see you guys on the next one.