Comparing Your Final Result to Original Image in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi, Jimmy Hartman here with Expert Village and in this clip, we'll be showing you how to group everything together here in our composition to check our final result from the original image to see if we've ended up where we want to be with the photo. The image is pretty much done, I think. What I'm going to go ahead and do is I want to compare it to my original. I'll open up my layers here. The easiest way that I do it is I add all of my adjustment layers to a group so I can turn them on and off at the same time. To do that, you create a new group with this folder icon. Basically, click on one of the adjustment layers, hold shift, and then click on the last adjustment layer. Click and drag them into the group folder. Now, you've got your adjustment layers in a group. We can shrink that group. Drag this off to the side here. I can turn these layers off to see the original. Click those, there's your original photograph. Looking at it now, it looks pretty bad. Add your layers and adjustments. It looks pretty good, kind of the effects I wanted. I could bring the water out a bit. You can figure out how to do that now with your adjustment layers, maybe hue or saturation levels, kind of experiment. Even with just shadow and highlight layer, it looks pretty decent. With the sky effect, you could mess around with your layer mass to kind of fade that sky effect a bit, get the transition you want. That's pretty much it for touching up photographs. It goes over a bunch of details you may need for these landscapes."