My favourite subject in front of the telephoto lens: moody mountains bathing in the clouds. Learn countless state-of-the-art techniques in my longest tutorial ever recorded.

What’s Included?
These three videos contain more than 3,5 hours’ worth of processing together, my biggest Photoshop tutorial ever recorded!
Three PSD-files (resized) of “Freedom Spires”, “Still for a Moment” and “Gleam of Dawn” with every adjustment still present.
Read-me file with photography tips and links to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.

What Will I Learn?
This is my entire workflow for a misty mountain photo. In three videos, we will cover:

1. Simultaneous Raw pre-processing
   
   


2. Aligning layers by hand using the Difference Blending Mode
   
   


3. Selecting the best parts of different images shot in rapid succession: birds, changesin light, etc.
   
   


4. Creative Controlled Warping
   
   


5. Leading the eye with darkness and light
   
   


6. Cloud dodging and reflected light dodging
   
   


7. Luminosity Selections (RGB Channels and Tony Kuyper’s luminosity masks)
   
   


8. Post-Processing for a dramatic film-look, straight from the fantasy films of Peter Jackson set in Middle-Earth
   
   


9. Matte Painting - the technique actually used in those films to create backgrounds
   
   


10. Selecting the best crops
    
    


11. Orton effect creation and control in Photoshop
    
    


12. Light Bleed and other light effects in Photoshop
    
    


13. Alternatively use Skylum Luminar to create those light effects
    
    


14. Panorama Stitching with a back-up plan
    
    


15. Repairing slightly out-of-focus mountains
    
    


16. Color grading and color corrections
    
    


17. Export and sharpening for the