How to Edit like Max Rive (@maxrivephotography) with Lightroom & Photoshop

Using this editing steps in #Lightroom & #Photoshop will get you closer to the style of famous landscape photographer Max Rive (@maxrivephotography) If you want to follow along this post processing tutorial, you can get the raw file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M0af... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Thank you for watching my video! ► Prints: http://www.the-phlog.com ► Patreon:   / phlog   ► Instagram:   / thephlog   ► Facebook:   / phlog   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Intro Max Rive has a very unique look on his landscape photos. This seems to come from strong split toning and intense dodging and burning. In this editing Tutorial I’ll try to recreate this look by using Lightroom and Photoshop For the raw adjustments of the photo, I used Lightroom, while I used Photoshop to do some of the heavier editing. 0:38 1. Basic Adjustments I started by changing the profile to neutral to get a very flat base image. Then, I adjusted the white balance to start off with more natural colors. To balance the brightness of the photo, I increased the highlights, the whites, and the blacks, while dropping the shadows to add contrast. For a sharp look, I added clarity and texture. 2:35 2. Local Adjustments I started with a radial filter on the left side above the clouds. To add glow to this area, I increased the blacks and dropped the dehaze. I added another, smaller radial gradient in the same spot, this time increasing the exposure, the whites, the blacks and dropping the dehaze for a very bright glow in the place. With a linear gradient, I made the top part of the sky slightly darker by bringing down the exposure. Finally, I added a radial gradient over the flowers in the foreground and added clarity, whites and saturation. 4:54 3. Color Grading I started by dropping the green and yellow hue to make the shot warmer. Then, I increased the orange, yellow and green saturation. In the luminance tab I increased the yellow tones for more brightness. With the split toning I added a very saturated warm color to the highlight and a cold, blue tone to the shadows, also very saturated. 7:46 4. Photoshop First, I cleaned up the image using the spot healing brush. Then I started heavily dodging a few areas (mostly the cliff on the right side where the light is hitting the mountain) using an overlay layer and the TK panel plug in to create luminosity masks. Also, I made use of the perspective Warp tool to make the mountain in the center a little bigger. Again, I did more dodging and some burning on the shadows on the left. Then, I added glow on the bright spot in the sky using a warm brush on a hard light layer.