The Magic Mushroom – Glowing Mushrooms Processing by Daniel Laan

Mysterious glowing mushrooms of the Dark Forest. I’ll explain everything that is to know about these techniques.
We’ll start with a single mushroom and illuminate it with LED. The challenge here is to combine exposures seamlessly. The second part is more complex. We take the same technique and apply it to multiple mushrooms in one frame.
What Will I Learn?
Two hours of video material, in which you will learn:

1 Preparing raw files
– Perspective Alterations
– Raw pre-sharpening
– Getting the white-balance right
– When to use the HSL sliders
– Balancing Clarity, Dehaze and Contrast
– The Smart Object Workflow
– Raw Transformations
2 Merging multiple images
– Aligning Layers
– Blending Layers manually
3 Luminosity Selections (RGB Channels and Tony Kuyper’s luminosity masks)
– Dodging
4 Raw adjustments with Smart Objects
5 Orton effect and detail recovery
6 Adding a Soft Glow and other light effects
7 Making the Image Sing in Camera Raw Filter
– Shifting attention
– Adding Light Effects
– Sharpening
-Altering the mood of an image
8 An introduction to Nik Color Efex
9 Cloning out Distractions
10 Handling difficult blends

All great tips and transparent captions in which I help to let you understand the reasoning behind the adjustments shown.