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Hi everyone ...I need help with an issue I am having with blue skies .After I export the image out of Lightroom I am getting a lot of blotchiness and streaks in the skies in my jpegs . The distorted skies do not show up in raw format. And this blue sky issue is not an issue when a number of clouds are present . I am not sure if it is a result of not isolating the sky from any of the editing going on in the rest of the image. The wrecked skies are driving me crazy as the prairies have tremendous big blue skies that I often like to feature here and in any prints I sell or give to charity. is there a way to isolate your sky from being edited while you do edits throughout the rest of the image ?
Any ideas ??
thanks
Walt
Any ideas ??
thanks
Walt
This is a lovely set Walt 
. I particularly like the lighting in the last two versions, which actually seem to be the same image.
Regarding the sky issue, would you be able to do a straight conversion with no editing from one of these RAW images that’s causing the problem and upload it to the critique gallery for help from the critique team? Some description of your editing steps in lightroom would also help identify the culprit. I’m assuming here that you shoot RAW, edit in RAW and then export in jpeg from lightroom? If not, and you’re referring to when you shoot the original image as a jpeg and edit jpegs in lightroom, then almost certainly it’s because the jpeg format doesn’t allow the flexibility your editing requires and the image quality is breaking down. Try checking the jpeg settings in your camera and turn them up to the highest quality…maybe you’ve chosen only medium or even small size? To edit jpegs they need to be the highest quality you can get. Overall though, if your shots are used commercially, I would suggest always shooting in RAW and only convert to jpeg for the final export. (Even better would be a lossless format like a TIFF).
Simon
. I particularly like the lighting in the last two versions, which actually seem to be the same image.Regarding the sky issue, would you be able to do a straight conversion with no editing from one of these RAW images that’s causing the problem and upload it to the critique gallery for help from the critique team? Some description of your editing steps in lightroom would also help identify the culprit. I’m assuming here that you shoot RAW, edit in RAW and then export in jpeg from lightroom? If not, and you’re referring to when you shoot the original image as a jpeg and edit jpegs in lightroom, then almost certainly it’s because the jpeg format doesn’t allow the flexibility your editing requires and the image quality is breaking down. Try checking the jpeg settings in your camera and turn them up to the highest quality…maybe you’ve chosen only medium or even small size? To edit jpegs they need to be the highest quality you can get. Overall though, if your shots are used commercially, I would suggest always shooting in RAW and only convert to jpeg for the final export. (Even better would be a lossless format like a TIFF).
Simon
Thx Simon. I always shoot in raw and edit the raw version in Lightroom . Of course they are uploaded onto the ephotozine site as a jpeg as Raw images or Tiffs are not accepted . as for the jpeg export I go for as high quality version as I am able to do . So versions five and six were converted from Canon Raw CR3 format and converted to Jpegs, they were not imported into Lightroom no editing done on them at all .
The mottled sky is still present inV5 and V6...so maybe it is more of a camera setting issue than a Lightroom issue ? When I view the raw file on my iMac no blue sky quality issues can be detected ...the problem seems to happen during the conversion from Raw to the smaller jpeg file.
cheers walt
The mottled sky is still present inV5 and V6...so maybe it is more of a camera setting issue than a Lightroom issue ? When I view the raw file on my iMac no blue sky quality issues can be detected ...the problem seems to happen during the conversion from Raw to the smaller jpeg file.
cheers walt
Morning, Walt,
Peggy is wonderful. I love draught horses.
Just a suggestion, but you could try shooting in Raw + Jpg, as an experiment,
then you can see if the problem persists on the camera Jpgs or is in Raw
conversion in your editing program ? At least it would give a guide to where the
problem occurs.
David
Peggy is wonderful. I love draught horses.
Just a suggestion, but you could try shooting in Raw + Jpg, as an experiment,
then you can see if the problem persists on the camera Jpgs or is in Raw
conversion in your editing program ? At least it would give a guide to where the
problem occurs.
David
