Tutorials - Creating Moody Photos
This tutorial is all about creating dark and moody photos full of atmosphere. I show you my creative photo editing workflow for the photo Dark Passage and you will learn how I add fog into the scene, how I darken the photo while preserving details and how I work on contrast and color to create more depth.
Tutorial Content
The complete tutorial is 43 minutes in length. For a better viewing experience I have split it into 5 sections. This way it's easy to revisit interesting parts of the workflow and to incorporate a selection of the techniques into the processing of your photos. Other than my longer start to finish tutorials, I only focus on the creative part of the processing here.
After a short introduction video, which you can watch below, the next two parts focus on adding realistic fog into the photo. Next I make the photo more moody before I finish it up through selective contrast and color work.
Throughout the complete processing I explain why I perform certain adjustments and how they affect the impact of the final image.
Prerequisites
I assume that you are familiar with Photoshop. You already know your way around layers, masks, filters and adjustment layers. If not, I recommend watching my free tutorials first. If you have watched my other tutorials this is perfect and will make it easier to follow along, but it's not mandatory.
I use Photoshop CS6 in the tutorial. Photoshop CS5 or later is generally sufficient to apply the techniques I use here.
Buying the Tutorial
The complete tutorial is 43 minutes long and can be purchased for 15 USD. This is a link to an automatic delivery system I've set up to make the purchase more comfortable for you. After you pay, you'll get a temporary download link to the tutorial.
You can contact me through the contact sheet on my homepage, if anything goes wrong with payment or download. If you don't have Paypal, that's also no problem. The shop supports credit cards. If nothing works for you, just contact me and we'll find another way.