All I can say is WOW and thank you.

Really, really useful. I've taken a lot of foliage pictures and always think the colors look dull. Thanks for the actions and the two related images!

@f64Academy

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

The color master. Separating the yellow and green in landscape is so important and this is the way to do it. Great video Blake

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

I remember the first time I did plein air oil painting of trees and grass outside... my painting started out lurid, toxic green and I spent the whole time adding red to my greens! I learned that green in nature is quite muted. I really appreciate that you relate your tutorials to artistic fundamentals!

Thanks for yet another nugget for Photoshop

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Nuggets are awesome! Especially in the air fryer!

You are the color master.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate that, but still feel like I too have so much to learn 😁

Thank you again and again with the ongoing education and support you continually provide for all of us!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

:) It's my sincere pleasure! Keep watching and I'll keep producing!

Great demonstration of how to adjust color. Thank you!

Thanks Blake. This is great. Having access to your actions is really helpful. You touched on this topic numerous times during your last photo review in F.64 Academy Elite. You have provided a great explanation of how to understand selective color. Bravo!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! This goes a little deeper than the videos in the critiques, but those show practical application at its finest!

Great lesson. Thanks Blake.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Now that is very good, your Actions give a very natural boost to the yellows, greens and reds in my images. I have been playing around with Selective Color for awhile now after you highlighlighted this adjustment layer a few years back but haven't been able to tweak it as well as you have for these colors using this Action you have provided for free. I really hope that other viewers also check out f64 Academy and f64 Elite as you are a brilliant educator.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, John! I really appreciate it :) Selective Color is a beast, but it can be tamed!

Thank you so much, Blake. I love your videos on color theory especially. Even though I'm an Affinity Photo user, I'm always able to adapt the concepts and techniques you teach because you explain things so well and give great examples. Really appreciate the effort you go through. Cheers!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you are able to use these techniques in Affinity 😁

Now I understand selective color a little better! I will have to watch this video a couple more times, but thanks for the valuable lesson, Blake!

Another great tutorial, Blake. And with bonus actions! Thank you!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Another game-changing tutorial! Following your directions for the foliage, I also created a selective color adjustment to a sky.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

Thanks for always making us better, Blake!!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!!

Wonderful. That's really helpful information. Thank you for sharing this.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Fantastic method, I just love it. It brings so much more editing joy! Thank-you from Germany for the explanations and the atn file. It's greatly appreciated!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure from Kansas City Missouri 😁

Well, you have done it again. Your "Better Foliage Color Now" has made my landscapes pop like never before! Thank you so much for all the great work you share with us. You are a true leader and artist!!! Your free downloads will be used often.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

That's what I love to hear!

@maldridge7630

Жыл бұрын

🙄

Blake, we always have to keep coming back for more. Cheers.

All your videos are great! Thank you

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoy them 😁

Awesome video Blake. Selective colour will now be a staple tool for me. Thanks.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Enjoy it!

Wow! That was wonderful! I’m working my way through your Blend If course and will definitely add this to repertoire. As I’m writing this I realized that you can use this for all your color enhancements, not just for foliage. Wonderful knowledge to have. Thank you.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I have one in the can for sunsets :)

@TallyTechandTroubleshooting

Жыл бұрын

...and, the "Blend If Panel" can hone in the action even more! Great stuff, Blake!!

Great job as usual. I wish I had that knowledge about colors. Thank you for sharing

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

You can! Study, study, study and practice! The beauty of working with color is that it's all theory 😉 experiment and work your way through it, you'll get this knowledge, that's how I did 😁 and I'm still learning!

This is Amazing Blake, Thank you.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

😁 thanks

super clear and helpful...as always. Thank you

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😁

Love your work, Thank You!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate it! It's my pleasure 😁

Thanks Blake. Educational and thanks for the actions

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁

Once again, after one of your tutorials I have to go back and re-edit all of my past photos. Thanks a lot Blake!!! ;-)

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Haha! Photoshop knowledge has a way of doing that to us 🤣

What a fantastic tutorial. I have been using Selective Colour and "playing" with it on quite a few images without fully understanding how it works. I thought I was doing a reasonable job, but it was basically experimentation with no direction. Your explanation of the colour wheel and how this either adds or subtracts the complimentary colour was a lightbulb moment for me. If only Adobe would adopt your version of the Selective Colour layout, it would make it so much more intuitive. Thank you. Keep up the excellent work Blake.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE those moments! It all just comes together 😁

You gave me a very useful knowledge - and your doing it with infectious enthusiam - Thanks

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😁 always!

Hi Blake. This is awesome! Thank you

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank You for a great overview!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure 😁

As usual a great video, well done lots of information to digest, will help me in the long run. thank you for the actions.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My sincere pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Blake, unbelievable...just tried these Actions...this is great...and very understandable...thank you very much...

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

That's what I like to hear!

Thank you for sharing your painting experience this has had a great effect on my editing.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😁

I really love it . Thank you Blake 😊

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Sure thing!

Thanks for the video! :)

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Excellent explanation! 👍

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I had fun with this one 😁

Good effect and very well explained!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😁

I have been using this method for a couple of years now and subsequently have not used the saturation slider in ACR since. I actually made it a preset in the selective color tool but thank you for the action.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Do you find that your presets are still there after you update PS? I'm always afraid of making a ton of great selective color presets just to find them gone on a version update from say 2022-2023

Amazing…I am working thru slowly(newer to PS than some LOL) and have the Palette Effects course as well..really appreciate your efforts! Wow this was really fast and furious…hard to catch every new thought so saved this to watch over and over until it becomes more instinct!…as a hobbyist painter myself I know from past experience color theory is super important with pigments but with CMYRGB it is a whole new ball game in Photos! Thank you!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

It certainly is a different world, but they run together pretty well. Lots of similarities between the two worlds.

Excellent, 2 thumbs up!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Blake, you are freakin' amazing man and you never cease to amaze me. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. . .

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

😉 it's my sincere pleasure!

Thank you very much!💞👍

I have been using this since Photshop 3. Its similar to one of the parameters you'd adjust on a drum scanner. Not only is it super powerful in combination with a mask. But I think it's probably one of the best tools to boost that slight dullness you get after conversion to CMYK. You only have to move the sliders a little to get back some of the RGB wow. I'm not sure I'd like the cyan slider showing red on the left of the Yellow_adjust because that's not going to happen. It's better to forget the RGB theory and think in terms of mixing paint with this filter. Thanks for all these videos after 30 odd years there's still so much more to be learnt. 😊

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty sweet! Thanks for adding that to the conversation 😁

Thank you for your explanations and the dowload.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome! My pleasure!

I nornally use your Zone system express panel but i applied the action to some of my bird photos that have foliage...worked a treat. Thanks Blake.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Thank you - very imformative ..

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Ha Ha, you have taught me well. I saw the Actions link and almost clicked it BEFORE watching the video. A little voice inside my head, sounds like you actually, 😉😂, said "don't do it!" Very helpful video. Thanks.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Haha! I'll slap your hand with my ruler 📏 🤣🤣🤣

Haha, I made an action after I watched your March critiques. Your the man 👊🏼👊🏼

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I love it :)

This is exciting, Blake! While my understanding of color theory is still growing, I still (as you know) struggle due to my color vision deficiency. In a way that is similar to your landscape cheat actions, I can successfully exploit these selective color actions without actually needing to correctly see or choose a color. f64 Elite is one of the best values in photography!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Yes! That's an awesome one to combine it with!

Wow thank you!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Superb

Wow, I'm always excited but slightly exhausted after these videos that focus on color. I really wish Adobe would color the CMY sliders like you do for these videos. Maybe some day the pairings (cyan-red, magenta-green, yellow-blue) will be automatic for me rather than a (smaller and smaller) speed bump. Sometimes I have to work my way back up the sliders as yellow-blue is easiest for me (from the temperature slider in editing apps?), then magenta-green (the tint slider?) and then I remember what is paired with cyan. I love the nerdy stuff, but sometimes it makes my head hurt.

Excellent tip here. I am a professional art director and I learned something new today. Thank you!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Woah! That's awesome! Glad you learned something new :)

Thank you Blake

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Sure thing!

Thanks for the information, the minimum I can do is subscribe. Keep up the great work.

Great video explained WELL! I made my own action based on this video. Also the action gets u in the right vicinity just tweet it... Thanx!

This is a good addendum to your ZSE7 course Blake! I'm on the Artistic Effects Module, Lesson 1 right now. Did I mention that you're a great teacher? (I'd be remiss not to mention Matt K's "Inside The Composition" course, he's a great teacher too, I just finished his course.) 👍🏼😎👍🏼

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

He is! Great guy too 😁 this is a perfect accompaniment to Palette Effects!

Thanks

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Certainly!

One of the better explanations I have seen Blake as it can be hard to understand Sorry for the swearing ---- it's basically the same in Affinity Photo :) as with all adjustment layers, mask can be used to target certain parts of the image I was expecting a little info on the Whites/Neutrals/Black sliders -- handy with B+W as well as colour Good one Blake

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

This was only for foliage so I didn't cover any other colors. Too much in one video and I lose people's interests.

Once again. You knocked out of the park...and into the next county.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

I love it! Thanks so much :)

Xou!❤

3:51 True asf 🥹🥲

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

🥺🥹

Interesting way to use selective colour. I have been using it for years in affinity photo but tend to move the sliders to see what is happening. I is exceptionally good for increasing contrast as well as making colours pop.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

For sure! This should be the same concept in Affinity as well.

yet another stellar tutorial. How do you remember all of this?

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, brother! I spend a LOT of time in Ps with color. I'm a nerd and I never go anywhere, lol.

Did you find Selective Color Adjustment Layer more useful, when you work with monochrome conversion of colored photos, than the regular color manipulation technique? Wonderful educational course! Thank you very much!!

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

I find it equally useful in both workflows 😁

@dmitripopov8570

Жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Then I will follow your recommendation and try it out in both scenarios. Thank you very much for the lesson an the response!

Well this oughta save some time. I spent so much time fine tuning multiple selective color layers frustated beyond belief because your eyes eventually become "numb" to the colors. If you don't take a break, you'll look at your final image later and wonder what the hell you were thinking. Thank you.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Color is tricky, gotta walk away and come back every once in a while.

🙏🙏

GREAT VIDEO! So i guss in Theory you can do this to all the colors so they look better not only Foliage right? 🤓👀

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Yep! I have a video for that too on my channel. Let me see if I can find it ... Here it is! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGWNmKmPeLzVhps.html

I wish adobe add a selective color panel to camera RAW and LR

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Trust would be useful!

Is there a way of doing that in Lightroom?

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

No Lightroom does not have this adjustment. It's only in Photoshop

In the example on the slide with magenta manipulation in selective color dialog box is not exactly right. If you reduce magenta percentage in magenta control tab it is more like a saturation reduction. It doesn't necessarily cause the magentas to become green. Results of selective color depends on overall color content in image. Your colour strips proposal may be confusing. Personaly I use selective color to reduce color casts from image or to achieve more vibrant color by balancing "unwanted color". For example, in greens I reduce magenta casts on flat areas but keep it in details.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

It really depends on relative vs absolute. But you are correct, it also depends on the available color within the image, if there are no magenta's it does nothing.

Can we get these actions?

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Yes. As the video states, they are in the description under the video. You may have to ensure you are watching this on KZread to see that. If it was on an embedded site they may not have given the link to the actions.

@KenToney

Жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy I missed it thanks, see it now. I’ve ordered your stuff before and very helpful you are one of my go to learning recourses!

I guess there is no equivalent technique in Lightroom Classic CC?

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

No this tool does not exist in Lightroom

@apeel2008

Жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy ok. Thanks for taking the time to reply.