5 Editing Mistakes You NEVER Want To Make

Are you getting the most out of your photos in Photoshop? If not, you're probably making at least one of these mistakes.

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[daemon]

The other beginner's mistake I used to make when I first went digital, and I see others make, is not walking away for a while before making final colour adjustments. You'll be sitting in front of a great big screen and you'll have warmed everything up a bit, and 10 minutes later your nearly done but think it could use a touch more warmth, and then when you look at it the next day, you can't understand how it turned out like it was covered in honey. You're eyes adjust to the colour in your photo, the same way they do to colour casts in the environment, and you stop seeing what you've done unless you walk away for a bit and let your eyes normalise again.

[billbarraclough]

Clear and concise...probably the most clear and concise editing strategy I've come across! Great video, Steve.

[FilmBooth]

I finally know what RAW is, Ive always just smiles and nodded when people said it to me

[liverpoolpictorial]

Thanks, Steve. Been shooting in RAW since 2004ish and I'm so glad I did. I can go back to files and correct some of the examples you point out, now my editing skills have improved over the years.

[peterhenochsberg]

This is a really helpful YT and I am sure will change my editing workflow. Thanks also for your free cheat sheet download. Excellent.

[marktaylor]

I don't want to do any editing right now, but I do fancy some nice cake! Neat concise video Steve.👍

[TinManLee]

So well done. Love the b-rolls and analogy!

[JoshxIZ]

@4:48 you said the photo is over-balanced "the sky too dark foreground too bright" and so on.
But your first edit with those mistakes is better than the re-edit imo.
The original is more energetic whereas the re-edit the energy has been taken out.

[stansheldon]

Steve, would this depth blur process have an action to speed up the process. Great tool

[Kmo]

hi, is there a similar work process in lightroom, for those of us who don't have photoshop?

[j.k.]

Hi, Steve!

So what do you actually edit in RAW?
Because to me it seems that you're basically editing everything on a JPG-level.
Once you've gone out from the RAW-tool and start editing with LAYERS in PS, you no longer have access to the RAW-tool.

So many of those things have more control while you're still in RAW.
To me it sounds like you're jumping over your first warning quite quickly.

Please elaborate what advantages you get with editing with layers (that aren't as editable as RAW)?
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