A Spooky Country Train Station

Off To China

I have a two-week China trip starting on Monday. So, as always, it’s a busy time for preparation. But I made a quick tutorial for today’s image. Raya Pro users can see the blending process using Raya Pro. And non-Raya Pro users can see how I like to create a more advanced vignette for deeper mood.

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How I Created The Image – Before/After Post-Processing

 

Workflow Explanation – A Spooky Country Train Station

This image was created using Raya Pro – The Photoshop Plugin.

As you can see in the before/after, I had some serious colour correction to do before editing. For that I dragged the Temperature slider all the way to the left (2000), which did the job beautifully.

You can see the blending process and vignette in the video above.

Additional post-processing: after blending in the darker exposure, I then painted out that exposure in the area of the tree to the left. I really like the strong light coming through there, but the darker exposure had reduced that considerably, so I just masked it out.

I also, using the DB2 buttons in Raya Pro, Dodged the bright area on the ground in the foreground, just to give the image a bit more depth, and the illusion that the light from the left behind the tree was illuminating the ground.

Other than that, this was a very easy image to process 😀