I am curious... What is your favorite color grading method?

@bldavis11

3 жыл бұрын

I've primarily used the Color Grading panel in LR and ACR, but this may be the game changer! Thank you!

@keithrice1236

3 жыл бұрын

I primarily use Gradient Maps and your technique from a while ago

@timmahaffey4895

3 жыл бұрын

I start with the color buttons in palette effects 3 experimenting until I find something I like. Then the gradients in PE, if none work I will mess around with the randomize function in gradient map. These tools help me find what works for the specific image then I tweak the controls, blend modes, and masks. After a day or two I check to see if I still like the color, usually have to tweak more.

@carlkristensen8398

3 жыл бұрын

From now on, I think this will be my favorite. Another good and easy is the accent AI in Luminar, but this gives more control just as easy.

@JMSteger

3 жыл бұрын

It depends on the situation. I experiment on my images using Selective Color, your Gradients or the Grading Palette contained in your Palette Effects 3 panel, and more recently, the Average Blur Filter in Photoshop to identify the average color in my image and applying that color or the inverse to the image using Blend Modes such as Linear Light or Soft Light.

Learnt more out of your videos than any other photographer on Photoshop

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I am so honored!

I love your teaching skills. You make it very simple and precise, no complications. Kudos!

This one - Wow! One of the BEST Photoshop videos on the Net. Also, like reading the comments on its creative uses by others. Thanks so much.

@f64Academy

9 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

THAT IS BRILLIANT ! So quick intuitively 👍🏻

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁😁

Blake, there is NO one out there that works better at Photoshop than you do. I've learned more about colors from you than anyone. Absolutely fantastic work! I use gradient map as of now. I'm for sure going to try this out. 😁

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks so much 😁 I really appreciate it. The gradient map is a good one! Very versatile.

You are wonderful Blake! Thank you SO MUCH!

Gold. Pure gold. I will be putting color into my shadows using this method. :-).

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Love it! Thanks for always being open minded for improvement! You are getting so good because of it. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching your growth.

@pbziegler

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Funny how good teachers keep getting good students. My lucky day when you decided to quit your day job. :-)

super tip Blake thanks for sharing

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

You bet!

Finally found a simple yet detailed explanation. Thank you!

Sir, I am from India. I love your way of teaching with great insight. thank you so much. Ram

Indeed very nice !

Another one of your awesome experiments. I love your linear light recommendations too and have your actions installed in your action panel for easy access. I use those actions all the time now. Great way to start my day with a hot cup of coffee and your inspiring video. Thanks so much, Blake.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! So glad to hear it 😁

Amazing information, many thanks

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Pleasure!

I have created two HSL layers (cyan|yellow) and applied them to shadows/lights using the blendif parameter. Works like a charm.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on! I love that you are combining techniques. I was half tempted to show how to do that, but I didn't want to convolute the simplicity of the technique. So it makes me very happy that you are experimenting with what you are learning!

Great, thanks!

You're the best...love your channel...

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁 thank you!

Excellent

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

HI Blake, This is another great took to add to the tool kit. Great job!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😁

Yet some more great info and soo simple, thank you Blake.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁 too simple!

Fantastic tip Blake! Simple & easy! 🙏🥰👍🔥👌

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for watching!

Thank you!

Wow.. never tried this way for colour grading. Amazing tip 👍

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Never tried it until I discovered it from experimenting either. You saw it here first 😁

great!

Great thanks

This is fantastic stuff! Thank you!! Using this technique with multiple HSL layers mixed with luminosity masks allows even more targeted control of color than the color grading tools in LR and ACR. This is great man!! Thanks!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I love that you are experimenting with it ;)

Spot on Blake. 👍🏻. Much quicker than some other methods too🙋🏼‍♂️

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! Very easy!

This is awesome

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁 thanks!

Thanks buddy! Great technique, love it

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, glad you like it!

Hello and thank you so much for this awesome tutorial. I have just tried this method and it really DOES work... with some very interesting results. I also took it a little further and tried 'linear light' blend mode set very low (somewhere between 15 and 25 and of course using flow rather than opacity, remembering what you said in another recent tutorial) with the HSL sliders in various combinations... and oh wow!! :)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Any of your contrast blend modes work great with this technique..although linear light is less v focused on the input color and more focused on its tonal effect. I prefer soft light for the way it lays the color on.

How cool! What a great tip. Thanks Blake :-)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, glad you liked it too!

Great color grading method Blake and so easy to do. I took it a step further and used TK7 luminosity masks, so I can split tone the ‘lights’ and ‘darks’ in my images using your method. Keep up the good work.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect! Glad you are experimenting! Works even better with blend if 😁

I love that technic! So simple and effective

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you like it!

You continue to make working in Photoshop easy. I am using it more & more. Thank you 😊

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! I love hearing that! Keep up the great work.

Color grading is my favorite thoughhh your techniques are getting better and better.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Simple and effective 👌 I love it🤗🔥

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

So simple! I love this method.

......thank you - a very useful video

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Awesome! You also answered a question I have been thinking about..how to find the complimentary color of a given color..add 180! Brilliant! Going to give it a go!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool huh? 180 degrees around the wheel :)

Thank you Blake, really useful 👍

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great way to colour grade. Will definitely give it a try 😁

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect! I think you'll like it!

recently I've been trying out the gradient map :)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good one!

So easy and intuitive. What is my favorite color grading method you ask? THIS ONE!!!.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssss!!!!

Awesome thinking brother. Really liked it...

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Thanks!

Thanks its amaizing

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Awesome!!!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

😁

This is a lot of fun! What's interesting is that the hotter an object is, the bluer it glows. So blue in reality is much hotter than red. Counter-intuitive, but true. When you start heating iron, it first becomes red, and as you increase the temperature, it turns orange, then yellow. The sun glows white, and stars much hotter than our sun glow blue. That's why higher Kelvin temperatures are bluer. But we live in a world where even fire is considered hot, and the sky is a big blue filter, which makes snow and everything after sunset blue. So we perceive it the opposite way, blue seems cold to us, and red is hot. Also our rooms are warm and we use orange lights, so we think it's nice and cozy, and the blue, dark night is cold. But it's really a trick that nature plays on us due to the biggest blue filter on the planet. Because in space, anything hotter than our sun is bluer, and anything colder is more red.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

So my wife is totally blue! Another Way I can torment my kids 😂🤣 when they something is hot, I say not as hot as your Mom! They blush, she blushes, and I giggle!

Thanks!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Super bro...

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Glad you liked it.

Then add 'Blend-If's to each layer to target image areas by luminance....

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Easily stackable with every other technique you love! I just wanted to pinpoint one simple technique and not convolute it ;)

5:01 deep magenta... Like... A deep purple? *Smoke on the water starts playing*

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Hey Blake! I use HSL a lot. But never did the way you show in this video with the colorize and soft light. And it seems to be an interesting approach! What I do is to use the 'hand' to pick a specific color and play around with the sliders and all blending modes to see which one is the best. I'll certainly try your recipe. Seems to be easier indeed. Best wishes to you :)

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! That colorize button turns HSL into a while different animal! It's very different from hand selecting a color to tweak. Give it a shot.

@Quiz-Mania-Pra-Familia

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy I certainly will ;) Thanks again!

you could even use luminosity masks so you can keep it just in the light or shadow areas. The you could have different colours in different areas.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Great point! There is a follow up too this video that shows an even better way than Luminosity Masks using Blend If for crazy control. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXtpx8iHkaeses4.html

@digwillhachi

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy ah yes that would be a much better way of doing it!!

Hey Blake, is this method same as using a Solid Color layer in soft light blending mode?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but more control with sliders. Think of it like this, it gives you more finite control instead of opening a large color picker and feeling clueless 😁 that happens to me all the time! It basically takes all the color picker radio dials and puts them into sliders that are a little faster to manipulate.

Could you please show us exactly how you combine this technique with Blend If?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I will be doing that on two weeks, stay tuned.

@andrzejmorawski6857

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This is very good news. I'm looking forward. I always watch your interesting and revealing tutorials

adding 180 (as in degrees) doesn't work exactly for hue which is 0 to 255 (not 0 to 360), you could add 128 instead of 180, but I know what you were trying to say... Thanks, this is a good technique.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

But the hue slider goes from 0 - 360 ;) so 180 works in this case.

@rickb6029

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, my mistake.

Allowing to download the tutorial image would have been helpful.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, it works on any image. Plus these are Adobe Stock and I cannot legally share them.

@sfrancfrancnrm8640

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy kindly avoid using images that you can't share. If we try on same image and get same result we feel better. Tks.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

I want you to try it on your own images, thats where you learn the best.. Watch the content then put it into practical application. I'm already giving you the knowledge for free, but somehow that's not enough? Now you need the images? Please experiment on your own images thats the only way you are going to learn.

@sfrancfrancnrm8640

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy tks for sharing the knowledge. I took screen shot it worked well. Looking forward to your next video.