From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
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Creating a collection
From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
Creating a collection
- [Instructor] The next step for me with a project like this is to put all of these images into a collection, and then to begin to work on the image itself. So here I'll press command on a Mac, control A on Windows, to select all. And then if you're in the library module, you can press a short cut to create a collection. That's command N on a Mac, control N on Windows. I'm gonna go ahead and name this one Selects, and I'll just put it at the main level, and include the selected photos and click create. And this way I now have my little collection of selects down here. One of the reasons why I like to do that is 'cause you can then reorder things. So I can say now I have the image I want to work on right here, versus in the mix of all of these. And once I have that, so what I'm gonna do is start to crop the image. So when we go to the develop module, you can see when I tap the R key to access the crop tool, it makes us aware the image is a little bit off center. So these overlays are…
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Setting the stage2m 21s
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Reviewing the photos6m 8s
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Selecting the keepers5m 13s
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Creating a collection4m 51s
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Creating a strong black-and-white look4m 21s
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Fine-tune the look and fix the background6m 37s
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Fixing the hat8m 36s
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Content-aware cropping4m 2s
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Final Curves adjustments6m 39s
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Wrapping it all up2m 14s
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