2. Make sure your gray card board is full of pictures.

3. When you want to shoot the gray card board at close range, it may block the ambient light. I suggest you don't be afraid of trouble and change to a lens with a longer focal length.

Food photography is more about restoring the true color and texture of ingredients. Although the above points have nothing to do with direct post-retouching, they will only be exhausted in front of the computer screen if they are not done well. ...

Personally, I am used to taking pictures in RAW format, so there will be more room in the later stage.

It is roughly divided into two steps:

1.Adobe Lightroom, first adjust the overall color and tone in this software.

2.Adobe Photoshop, repair details, including dirty spots, improvement of ingredients, and adjustment of details.

Later, I also discussed the later period of food pictures with some expert friends. Everyone has his own method, but to sum up, the things that need to be adjusted are essentially the same, that is, all roads lead to the same goal. Share here.

1.Adobe lightroom mainly adjusts color temperature and hue, exposure and contrast.

Deception 1: ordinary dishes and rich ingredients determine that this photo will have rich layers. If you want to get a soft picture, that is, you can have beautiful colors without improving the contrast, it is suggested to play the function of "color vividness".

Deception 2: When there are many highlights in this picture, which are important (for example, highlights are on the ingredients, not unimportant accessories such as the background), after adjusting all options (including exposure value), reduce the exposure to highlight level, output jpg format, and then adjust with PS. The reason is that in PS, the layering of darkening and brightening will not be lost, and it is difficult to find details when the highlights are darkened.

2.Adobe Photoshop repairs the details, including the dirty spots, the perfection of the ingredients, and the tone adjustment of the details. Time-consuming work is done in PS.

The first step: first repair the dirty spots, defects and imperfect components on the film.

Importance: If you adjust the contrast, sharpen and other steps, and then repair the defects, especially where the area is slightly larger or the color is too obvious, the first repair will be more natural and smooth than the later repair.

Step 2: Create a new layer, change the layer mode to "Soft Light" and adjust the transparency of the layer. This value depends on the specific dishes and light.

Cheats: After the "soft light" effect, you will get beautiful contrast and color. However, the disadvantage of this function is that black and white layers will be lost. At this time, it is suggested to erase the brightest and darkest places on this layer with a mask.

The third step: adjust the layering of black and white locally, and use the combination of tools such as curves and highlights to erase the needed places with masks. This step may have to be repeated several times, so everyone must be patient at this stage.

Ordinary food pictures, whether Chinese food or western food, will have obvious dark parts and highlights. For example, a fried vegetarian dish, with white yam and black fungus. For example, a dessert contains both white cream and black blueberries.

This method may be a waste of time and a stupid one, but the advantage is that it is more accurate. In a photo, all the details can be seen at a glance, and then you are often satisfied.

Step 4: Sharpen.

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