FAST manual selections TUTORIAL for Fine Art Photography

Today's tutorial is about speeding up your workflow for the post-process of your fine art imagery. General shortcuts, as well as Photoshop specific shortcuts, my new preferred method for selections and I edit one of your images and talk you through the process.

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[ttanarugsachock]

Magnificent work on photoshop. Hats off for you.

[jmonroyf]

Great video Ben! Thanks for helping us understanding how to edit photographs in order get fine art photography and also thanks for having my photograph edited... that’s how I imagined it.

By the way the photograph was taken in Mexico City and focuses on one of four columns of the Monumento a la Revolución.

Thanks again and greetings from Mexico!

[andrefelixstudio]

Hi Ben nice video, you make it all look easy as you got the touch with your style!

[UpLighting]

YES! Stoked we finally got this video!

[paulkolenda]

I love your videos. I find them very helpful to learn technique and vision. Keep it up.

[atephoto]

Good shot by Jose and good edit by you :) Good job both!

[DapurFithryOfficial]

This Video i looking for, thank you for sharing

[chawan]

great video, its brilliant how people all do things different to get the same result, i came across your glasgow video, as im not far from there, i have one of the radisson, and il admit it took me about a day with numerous cups of tea to do

[terryjones]

Another great video Ben, thanks buddy

[kevbell]

Another great video - thanks Ben. When making selections that are mainly made up of curves, I prefer to use the new curve pen tool. I set the bottom button of my Wacom pen to double click, that way I can hold it down when I need a corner point (i.e. no curve). I find this much better that the standard pen tool because there is no click dragging required to form curves. The other advantage is that I can move any point by simply moving back to click on it (pen nib set to single click) and then move it (no modifier key required).

[AnthonyTurnham]

Cool video Ben. I know how much work goes into cutting the video together as well as the edit itself. Nice work on that! We have a similar approach to B&W architecture editing. I like to use different versions (high key, mid + low) but I don't usually do them in silver efex, although it's a great option. Thanks for sharing more of your proces and all the best for the continuation of a successful channel!

[frankdeblon]

Love your video Ben, thank you for sharing. Learning a lot !

[martincregg]

I love the final result. I got a bit lost at the end. Did I miss what you actually did in PS? Giving you a massive thumbs up because you have twins (mine are now 33) and I just like the way you present. Also, you are massively skilled and should have a ton more loyal subscribers. Which you will if you keep producing high level content like you do.

[Spinlayer]

Apologies for my English. Why not the Curvature Pen? It's faraway better for doing corrections, and the tool itself will guess the shape of what you select. And it's faraway more easy to learn.

[kdo]

Love your videos, Ben, and this one’s no exception. The LM panels I have are ADP Pro, Lumenzia, and Artisan Pro X. I would love it if you can put together a tutorial for Artisan Pro. I haven’t quite figured out a general non destructive work flow and how best to use the panel; I really like it’s ability to make fine gradients.

[Stellifant]

Thanks for such a fine, instructional video Ben.

[scotty]

Good vlog Ben and always enjoy the fine art tutorials. I recently purchased Quick Mask Pro to use in addition to Artisan Pro. Still trying to become proficient in it, but love the challenge. Thanks again for the tutorial

[timdelma]

My next architectural picture I will process this way. Only thing I'm not used to is creating a normal, high key and low key version of the picture in Silver Efex. Maybe a future tutorial?

[thomasw.]

Great job, Ben! I like the Fine Art editing style you show in your videos. Would be interested in the work flow on iPad Pro (latest generation) + pencil as I mainly edit my pics with Lightroom and Photoshop on the iPad Pro 12, 9...

[weeannabee]

The bit that foxed me was your masks at the end over the low- mid- and high-key versions - how do you get those graphic gradients?