5 Advanced WARNING Signs of OVER-EDITED Photos

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In this week’s episode, I review the 5 advanced warning signs of over edited photos. This is something all photographers must deal with from time to time. Some still find themselves in the midst of this over editing stage while others have broken free from the grips of this difficult time period. This over editing stage of your photographic journey can be difficult as it may not be obvious to you at the time that you've gone too far with your editing process. And my hope is that this video can help shed some light on some of the most common areas of concern when it comes to over editing landscape photos. I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.

*📺VIDEO CHAPTERS*
🔘 Shadow-Less 00:30
🔘 Bad Balance 02:37
🔘 Highlight Crush 05:41
🔘 The Halos 08:58
🔘 Over Contrast 11:15

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[MarkDenneyPhoto]

🌟QUICK QUESTION: What did I miss that has impacted your photo editing?

[MikeGiovinazzo]

excess skin smoothing is perhaps the other over-edited sign I struggeled with.

[Bob_Amaral_Photography]

Love the tip on the mask over the sun and turning down texture, clarity, and dehaze. 90% of my shots are of the sun. This will help. One of those tips where you say to yourself.."Why didn't I think of that?" Great video Mark. Thanks for all you do!

[alanbudge]

What a great tip at 1:55 holding the shift key and double clicking to give suggested amount. Must play around with this. Another little gem Mark, thank you.

[kekagiso]

Over saturation is another thing I got excited over when I was starting out, It's the one thing I see most often.

[Scyth]

Nearly 1000 hours in lightroom and I didn't know that shift-auto trick!

[the_rat_run]

I'm happy to note that I'm not guiilty of any of the issues you brought up in the video, Mark. Not that I'm a whizz, only that so many of the Pro photographer channels I view create images that look so unreal, I do my best to not bake things too hard... If the photo looks like I remember when taking it, I stop! Great watching though, as always. (I loved the tip that softened the sun though!)

[hnurminen]

I love your props - the Maxell VHS tape and the Walkman. Hits big time with someone who was a teenager in the 80s.

[sveeny]

Great video! I'm not surprised that many of the classic over editing mistakes have to do with overly increased dynamic range and detail contrast. I still get the urge sometimes when editing. Sometimes you need to stare at a blank wall (or at least away from your screen) and then look at your work again to realize you went a little over board 😀

[rayasiala]

Absolutely wonderful knowledge again! I am notorious for over editing and over baking my photos.
This is definitely gonna give me some things to think about and try and apply on a regular basis.
Thank you for posting this!

[rustyschackleford]

Do your sharpening in Photoshop. That way you can adjust it, and prevent the halos in the first place. First copy the background layer. Filter->Other->High Pass. Adjust the pixel size, and set the blend mode to Soft/Vivid Light.

[dougbolt]

The halos and fringing from the sharpening come from using the masking slider and the detail slider. Increasing both of these causes/increases the halos and fringing, especially when the sharping and the radius are cranked up. Increasing the luminance and color noise reduction will help to make the sharpening look more smooth and natural.

[PhucketThugLife]

I could agree with this up to the last section about contrast. Contrast to my eyes really affects the mood and it's hard to achieve certain moods if everything looks neutral.

[OctoFloatRepair]

This is really interesting,
I started taking pictures about a year ago and I really don't do any of the things you do with your editing! I use lightroom in a completely different way, mainly focusing on color grading & brightening since I take nearly all my pictures with a negative exposure compensation. The pictures you used as examples are very dramatic, otherworldly pictures while I end up taking more opportunisitic landscape photography street photography. I usually keep my sharpening at default or reduce it to 0, never really like playing with dehaze, clarity, or texture.
What I like doing is going to the individual color saturation sliders and starting each at -100, and then slowly bringing back color from red to magenta one by one, focusing on highlighting colors that greatly contribute to the image, and trying to keep the amount of those colors in the image between 3 and 5.
It's interesting to see different uses of lightroom and different problems people face in the same hobby!

[janineedmondson]

Excellent tutorial - one thing I noted is - you can in basics (highlight, white, shadow, etc) you can hold down the option key - which turns your screen white - and if you see any blown out/dark areas you can slide the bar left/right until you can’t see them or they are reduced as much as possible.

Not sure if I’m explaining this right but it’s an additional thing for basics (also works on the sharpening area - masks)

[Coccnuttt]

I regularly see awfully over edited photos on Flickr and such get thousands of likes despite obvious and jarring issues - white halos, fried HDR colors, etc. I don't get it.

[jtkyber]

Maxing out the saturation and vibrancy to set the color balance is such a good tip! I'm gonna start doing that

[brianalpert]

I like to reduce shadows and highlights to the point that you make things visible without creating a phony HDR look. You can get away with reducing the shadows and highlights by a significant amount if you simultaneously move the black slider to the left to create a black point and the whites slider to the right to create a white point. For me, doing that usually negates the need to increase the contrast.

[jonathaneilert]

I have been reflecting on my editing lately and feeling like I am overdoing it. Thanks for the confirmation. Guilty as charged:).

[Kitcatkiss]

Thanks for these! I appreciate these types of videos. Very helpful.