Do you have any awesome tips for working with color? Maybe a favorite tool? Let us know!

@Quiz-Mania-Pra-Familia

3 жыл бұрын

Dodging and Burning to give density to the images is the final touch. HLS always! Color balance and, sometimes, Photo Filtre - I play a lot with colors :D

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I love it. Color is a lot of fun 😁

@marcjjohn

3 жыл бұрын

How old is that picture? Where's the dino?😁

@gireesha8303

3 жыл бұрын

How do u use those color pellets?

@pbziegler

3 жыл бұрын

I have a great tip and this is not a paid pitch. Buy Blake's Palette Effects tool and videos. That will take you 90% of the way. The rest is practice, practice, practice

Great points, Blake. Especially about walking away for a while. I do that with my artwork in general. I get to the point where everything is looking awesome and I think I'm finished, then I take a break and when I come back I start seeing things I totally overlooked. Maybe a missing shadow, a highlight out of place, or color issues. As they say, the devil is in the details and after so long your brain starts overlooking those details, but those details can make or break your work.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! You get it! That is the hardest part sometimes too, where do you stop?

Awesome tips! Thank you so much Blake!

Best advice I always tell myself and never (almost) follow is to walk away. Another winner, Blake, Thanks for the post!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jeff! Walking away fixes a lot of things.

Morning Blake , The awesome tutorial from your studio. which also reflects the color theory you teach, is simply awesome! Many thanks, Nico.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Love it! I appreciate the encouragement.

No doubt you’re the “Color Maestro”. I have learned more about color theory from you in the past 18 months than in all the other books & videos I’ve seen in the last 45 years. I think I will start referring to you as “Professor C” !

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's awesome! I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you!

@StevenSeiller

3 жыл бұрын

✅ Ditto! 🙏

As usually..simply great! Thank you very much Blake for sharing your knowledge and the most important, giving the tools to think and extrapolate. ❤

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It's my pleasure to serve! Thanks for watching!

Thank you. You're the best KZread teacher in my opinion. Will buy some f64 Academy gear soon to show my support for you and your channel. Plus I like the color and your logo is awesome!!

Hello Blake, oh man you empress me every time you post new video, great and thoughtful ideas

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure to share :) Thanks for watching!

Thank you Blake. Another awesome video with practical application 😊

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you Blake for another great session - especially the #3 advice and never realize that.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Right! So important, yet so simple.

Excelente, as always! I'm struggling here exactly with this issue - trying to give life to a lifeless very old illustrations. I'm very conscious about color theory (I wrote a book about it), but we often seem to forget what we know - haha! 'Walk away for some time': priceless! Thank you (again and again) for this video Blake and all the tips and knowledge you always gives us with such great energy and good vibes :)

Another great video Blake and a couple or so new tips I've learnt = very useful and helpful...and as mentioned in the comments below, the sunglasses analogy really works. I never thought of it that way before, but it's so true....I love the way you dive into something, trying to find answers, trying (even) to find the questions to find answers to, then piecing it all together and presenting you findings, methodology and conclusions, to us, with the hope that we can then take this and apply to our own work, digest it, thoroughly understand it and maybe even expand upon it ourselves..yes, you're pretty much a 'Sherlock Holmes' character in that respect, with a fresh, enthusiastic approach, which comes from a slightly left-field perspective and is so much more fun, interesting, entertaining and genuinely useful, and transferable to ones own work and projects, than the majority of Ps 'musings and tutorials' you see on here....Great stuff!...

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! You have me pegged 😁 that's exactly how I operate! I really appreciate your kind and thoughtful feedback. It keeps me energized to keep on going!

What a genius, thanks man!

Thanks for another great tutorial! There is always something new to learn :) Also, the sunglasses were a great analogy.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty interesting, huh? It's crazy how the brain works.

Simple yet powerful advice I’ve received, keep it up! It encouraged me to subscribe this channel.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks so much 😁

Tip 3 was good. Thanks.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great tip, thanks Blake

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

"Ahhh, maybe!" :D Always learn a lot from your videos, thanks a lot Blake!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you like them. 😁

Excellent Blake, thankyou!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for watching 😁

I love your tutorials

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it :)

Great stuff Blake....

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

All of your videos are informative.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁

Salvador Dali the painter, said in one of his books he used a special colored shell that he used as his reference to keep on track with his colors. He said it more or less was his way of gauging his colors. So some walk away, others use devices to keep their color balance.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool! I like that idea too.

Thank you, Blake. All your videos are super useful! I have a question about the second advice. Is there a way to check the distribution of colors in an image on the color wheel?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. I just assess it visually.

Great video! Only just discovered your channel but found it really valuable. Is there a way of bringing up the colour wheel to see the harmonies and what's actually being used in the image? Like you did in the bottom left of the screen?

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You can put the color wheel in your libraries and access it from there that's what I do

Hi Blake: This was a very informative video. I don't have an artistic background so understanding Colour Theory and Colour Grading has been a challenge for me. I can relate to your use of the sliders to 'nuke' the colours so this will be very helpful. With more practice, I hope to get more comfortable with this entire concept. Regards, Keith P.S. I am a Canadian so we spell colour with a 'u'. L.O.L.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I've always liked that spelling, colour, I mean it is "our" color after all lol

What colour wheel program or plugin is that at 3:40?? To show what colours are on that canvas.... ❤️

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It's one of my color wheel art pieces I made.

Love from India ❤️

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Very nice, I thought you might have done this in camera raw. But I guess you could start there and then do added adjustments or either one. Enjoy your videos.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I don't do a whole lot with color in camera. The magic happens in post 😁

@seannorton69

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Hmm, very interesting.

Hey Shady Rays! I have three pairs of the exact same one .

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Lol! Facebook ad got me!

@lacayoj

3 жыл бұрын

My dad introduced me to them! I love em!

those are really amazing tips .. but what was attracting me the audio quality .. do you have a tutorial for it.😍

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I actually don't know what I'm doing with audio, haha. I have a yeti x that has preamp software, I use one of their presets and just roll with it with some mild OBS audio filters that I googled. I'm glad it sounds good though, because I have no idea what I'm doing with audio.

@AhmedElnosany

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy wow .. this is really awesome that you don't do so much to get great results, I thought it is a shotgun mic.

Dope!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Blake in your tutorials you stress to start your editing process in Basic followed by calibration and then colour mixer. My question to you is is selective colour a better option than colour mixer? What are your thoughts

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Selective color is in Photoshop, not in ACR. In a raw workflow you'd use color mixer to get the colors looking as best you can. Then in ps use selective color to modify and refine them further.

@michaellekas27

2 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy thank you. Now it all fits

would you do the same with portraits too?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing! Anything with pixels!

How are you getting the color wheels?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I made them

@Joani161

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy So we can't get them.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

No. Not these ones. These are pieces of art I have made for myself. There are some things I must keep for myself.

@Joani161

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy I thought they might be part of a plugin.

Do you ever keep coming back to an image and it’s just never right, so you end up working on it for days?

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

Meh, sometimes, but not as much as I used to. I think once you get really good in Ps (you can do just about anything with the tools) and you are in touch with your vision for the piece, it gets easier and you do that less and less.

Do you really work in a room with that Blurple color lighting it?

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Very often, yes. I have two light setups, full brightness like normal lighting, and KZread lighting. I often find myself working in the KZread lighting, it's not as blurple as it looks on camera. That's a white balance trick mixed with the colored lights.