This is a great skill set Blake .. thank you .. you never cease to amaze.. 😃

Thank you for taking the time to make and share this! I will definitely try it in my workflow soon.

I've been using selective color for some time now, but this is a whole new level. Thanks Blake.

My first Blake tutorial. Super valuable! Thank you!

@f64Academy

4 ай бұрын

😁 thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate you.

This is like gold. It doesn't get corroded, it shines better every day. Thank you Blake.

I like this tuto, like all the tutos you make. Very well explained as usual

Blake,awesome video on color blending. I'm the type that learns best then it's broken down to the niddy gritty and you do just that. Thanks,Great job.

Thanks, very good tutorial and very nice process for enhancing color through tone.

I used this adjustment layer last night for the first time and it is a total game changer! The amount of additional control over the colors and tones is incredible! I could refine the image exactly as I wanted - far more control than I’ve ever had before in PS. Thanks, Blake!!! Great tutorial.

I am one of the few who like the nerdy explanations as to why a technique works, so I loved this video. I’ve liked the selective color layer for awhile now, but this takes it to the next level. Great job!

Amazing method !!! It totally changed the looks of some of my old images which I had discarded !!

Wow Blake! I learned a lot here, and I’ve always been a fan of Selective colour. Selective Colour intrigued me on my first day on Photoshop (about a decade ago). I asked a user what it is - they didn’t know. I learned it through trial and error and I find it very useful - even for increasing or decreasing colours in selected patches. Thanks Blake for expanding my appreciation of those sliders and modes.

Very informative tutorial, loved all the nerdy info and really learned a lot.. thank you!

Hello Blake, this Nordi Spooki stuff is Heaven Made and thanks to your teaching, its finally hammered into my head. The tone and colors of my photographs have improved with this method. I have been following your channel for last 3 years, at first they were like some junky stuff, but after playing around with the ideas for a while, the ideas gradually sank in. Thank you.

This is BRILLIANT! So useful. Thank you.

Great video! I was looking behind the science of selective color...thank you Professor! Absolutely fabulous information!!

I honestly didn't even realize that Selective Color was an adjustment tool available for manipulation. I've very much enjoyed your insight on it, Blake. It has become a very useful tool to screw around with.

Great video Blake. I did a similar tutorial using selective color to add color and color contrast. This will be a great addition to my workflow.

This Selective Color adjustment layer just went under my radar for such a long time. Thank you, Blake for re-exposing it to me!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

It is one that is easy to go under the radar, but one that needs to blip every once in a while :)

Jesus.. im eating all your videos. Very much to learn and share. Thank you!

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

My sincere pleasure 😁 glad you found them! Subscribe and stick around for a while, I'd love to have you here more often 😁

This is only the second video tutorial of yours that I've watched, but I've got to tell you I'm hooked. Your knowledge and enthusiasm are infectious. Thank you.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Yesssss! Thanks so much for stopping by and sticking around. I'm just glad I can help.

bro this channel is under rated

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It's where it needs to be I guess 😁 I'm very happy with where it is, but I really appreciate your support.

Thank you. I’m relatively new to PS and I’m on a very steep learning curve. Your explanation was clear to me. Please continue posting.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Will do! Been at it for nearly 10 years, I don't plan on stopping anytime soon :) There are over 300 videos for Ps on this channel, feel free to browse.

I understand Selective color now - from your Video.....thx....very nicely delivered....

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad I could help!

This is fantastic Blake, wow I am soooo impressed ...got to go try it! Thank you so much !!!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Prett neat, huh?

I loved it, just like every video that you do. I used to follow a bunch of people that do PS tutorials. Now I don't need to follow and only follow you, all my questions are answered.

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Woah! That's pretty awesome. There's a lot of great stuff out there so don't give up on everybody 😁

Great explanation and method. Thanks.

I just bought your B&W profiles, but before starting their installation I started reading your video: foolproof4, playing this video on selective color a huge thank you blake .... I finally understood (after several readings), the interest of the adjustment layer: selective color, and how to use it, to lighten, and darken certain colors, and the subtle difference between tint and tone Thank you very much Blake, your vision and your explanations which differ from the others, teach me a lot of nuances and subtleties, which improves my post processing i am french, myenglish is not so good => so i utilized google traduction)

Great, simple, well explained way to make adjustments. Thank you!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching

insightful and very useful. This tutorial also brought up another idea. One of the best protocols for producing powerful B&W images is to manipulate the HSL of colors under a Gradient Map (B to W) layer. Now I have to experiment with Selective Color under the Gradient Map layer.

Very well explained - Followed with no problem. Definitely something I will use. Thanks from Ireland

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Sweeeeeet! Thanks for the feedback.

Excellent! Thank you! Makes total sense.

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

😁

Yesss very nice Blake! Going to try this on my next photo. Thank you so much for your time and value! I'll be following

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

It is my pleasure! Thanks for watching!

I have been doing this for some time, only difference is in the second selective color adjustment I use the color ( not normal) blend mode. great stuff, Blake.

Great tip, Blake. I am trying to decide if I am more impressed with the results we can get with this or the fact that you figured this wizardry out. As always, I greatly appreciate the Photoshop knowledge that you pour down our throats. Keep it up.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

😆 just reporting my findings 😁

Absolutely great

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I use photoshop for digital post-impressionist paintings and this technique, applied as final step before exporting, gives me a full control on how fine tune each color the way I want! Great technique I didn't know about.

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it 😁

That’s awesome - great video Blake!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it!

Really, really interesting and useful tutorial man! Thanks a ton!!

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! Its all my pleasure really :)

Thank you! The "nerdy" information was really helpful...when I understand how something works, I find it easier to adapt that knowledge to other scenarios (e.g., not just adjust the blue sky of a photo, but instead seeing a macro photo that can benefit from the same process).

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Boom! Absolutely! Practical application is so critical when you learn something new.

I found this similiar result when we apply a BW adjustment layer, increasing blue, yello etc and change blend mode to luminosity

Wow! Never knew - not a clue. Thank you soooooo much, Blake. :0)

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Can’t wait to play! Than you!

@f64Academy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Pretty amazing!

Excellent one.

Thanks for the video. Very helpful.

Blake........Not so dorky...I followed pretty well....great explanations...can't wait to try it out! I am saving this video and sending it to a friend! TFS

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks so much!

Blake you are the best. Thank you

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😁 you're pretty awesome yourself!

Hello, I want to wish you a very happy Christmas and a happy new year 2020 for you and yours. And very especially I want to thank you for all your tutorials that you upload to the channel with which I learn from a great teacher like you. I hope this new year can continue to enjoy and learn from your knowledge in this exciting world of image digital. Receive a big hug.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you as well! I appreciate you.

This is a game changer - please update this for February 2021 - Well done

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

It's not much different really.

Blake, I have learned heaps from your videos. Even though I don't do many landscapes, being a bird photographer I still find it very useful. Thank you.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I am so glad you are finding a use for my tutorials in another genre of photography.wayto use practical application and critical thinking :)

Never thought of myself as nerdy and dorky until now. AWESOME stuff!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

The inner nerd is strong!

Absolutely excellent tutorial Blake, it' so powerful and amazing. Many thanks from Uruguay :) and best wishes for you and your family.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, that is very kind. The family is great, I pray the same for you.

@DalsPhotography

4 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Thank you so much Blake :) Yeah dealing with this virus as well as everyone else, and taking care! So up there for you folks, don't forget to take care as well .

Excellent. Very informative. Thanks for posting it.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciated.

Big up, Blake! Greetings from Romania !

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks from Kansas City 😁

Thank you.. waiting for morning to try it out 😊

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning experiment!

Extraordinary Blake. It has awakened a keen desire to give it a try. I would be interested in knowing how this can be done using either ZSE or PE panels?

super video thanks for sharing

Excellent video Blake! Many thanks @f64Academy :) !

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Good stuff! I can tell this is going to really help with my Black and White images, thank you kind sir.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😁

Your a true Photoshop master. Fantastic stuff. Being a fan of the St Louis Blues , I found your Chicago tee shirt upsetting LOL... Cheers and many thanks...

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

lol, well don't let yourself get offended too easily. It was just from a conference I did there :)

Smart and useful stuff.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

very cool gratitude

Your background is very nice. Keep it up👍🏻

@f64Academy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

WOW-oh-WOW, Simple & powerful. Thanks!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Right?

@glennmiller2116

4 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Watched your presentation with Sean Bagshaw as well but this tutorial really seemed to simplify the technique. Can't wait to experiment with it.

Thank you, great work

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

:)

This was so helpful thanks!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Love hearing that.

Good information. Thumbs up!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😁

I'm going to have to watch that again...might get some coffee first..It looks amazing though! Thanks!

@brucegallagher4904

4 жыл бұрын

Agree with that.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Coffee is good!

Great video!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Súper useful stuff

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

I am certainly going to try that on my animal images. I am really curious how that will look. I think it will look awesome. Thanks, Blake.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

I think it will too!

Thank you Blake, great tutorial as always. I have used SC layers for a while but never with it as a tonal adjustment. Only thing I would liked to have seen is the result if you “took the governor off” and put it on absolute instead of relative. Thanks again for expanding my knowledge

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

No problem! My pleasure! I prefer the relative as it works with the color mixture rather than the Absolute value. It is a more natural approach. However, the Absolute value doesn't make too much of a difference sometimes, it really depends on the color, I find it a little more unpredictable.

Great post!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

What about using color blend mode for the second selective color layer, so just the colors are affected by that?

Blake...Am I right that the tonal selective color layer is in Luminosity mode and the 2nd selective color layer is in normal....That part went by a bit fast! Thanks ...Love it!

Incredible! Sounds nonsense... but it works! Thank you Blake

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

yep! Pretty sweet!

this is good stuf, thank yo!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hei, this is PRO stuff! The time I spend following you is worth the effort! Thank you so much! I have two questions: - Would it give us similar results if we used a Black and White adjustment level and use a luminosity blending mode? - I did not get that thing about 50% green, 25% blue and 25% red. Could you give me some reference I can read about that? Thank you again for sharing such advanced stuff!

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Recently I've discovered adding a "Vibrance" layer in the "soft light mode", at 12-14% adds a unique tonal effect. It is a hard to describe the effect other than tonal and wondered if you, or anyone else have tried doing this?

There should be a nerdosity slider, and let's call it the Blake Slider. You, sir, are a genius.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! I would use it all the time :)

good video! i remmber years ago somone did use Selective Color to "clean up" the colors useing Color Theory. dont remmber how it was tho.. 🤔

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

I did one a few years ago, maybe not the same one though. There are so many of us out here, I love it!

👏👏👏👏👏

Sir, that was brilliant. TONE, COLOR with Luminosity Blend Mode.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was a pretty fun discovery.

Nerdy, Dorky for the win!

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Yessssssss! Finally a win! High school Blake loves this!

Do the 25, 25, 50 values change from sensor to sensor?

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily if it's a better matrix sensor. Most of them are built off that sensor technology or variations of it.

Very cool and what is easy method.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

😁

So where does this fit in your workflow vis a vis ZSE?

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Anywhere really. You can use this before making masks if you want to get more from your tones or use it after for refinement.

Do you know about editing in 16 bit rather than 8 bit to avoid colour banding appearing in your image. Then at the end convert it back to 8 bit. It's also a neat trick in photoshop not too many people know about.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

I am usually editing in 16 bit on my RAW files after the handoff from ACR. When I do these demos, I do them on JPEGs for speed purposes, so they are in 8 Bit,

Hi Blake how come when i make a new adjustment layer the pictogram on the left of the mask is not the same than the one i see in your tutorial. For the selective color the pictogram is a O splitt in half black and white , if i choose Hue/saturation the pictogram is also a O half black and white, Actually any adjustement layer i chhose , the pictogram is alaways the same . It does not show the actual pictogram according to the action it should do . e.g. The Curve pictogram for new adjustement layer curve, an histogram for a new adjustment level curve etc. etc. Any adjustement layer i choose the pictogram is O splited half black half white.... I am using Ps CC 2020. Thank You

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

That's because you may have small layers selected. Go into the settings of the layers palette and select medium or large and you'll see the pictogram.

@paulg.2347

4 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy Right On ! thank you. When following tutorial it is good to see on my screen the same things that i see on your tuto. Thank You !

How to do it in portrait? Great video.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Same way for a landscape. Portraits have colors and tones too. So you'd use the same method but for your desired look.

Cool stuff - this is kinda like "Perceptual Saturation" in NIK Color Efex.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Cool! I don't remember that one. Only used it a couple times.

@shadowandcaspar

4 жыл бұрын

The more I watch Blake’s stuff, the less I use Nik... so much better for my images IMO.

@PaulScott_

4 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy I just thought of it when you said "perceived saturation" and I went aha! It is much better when you know how it works and to be able to do it with the tools that come with Photoshop! Thanks so much for sharing your information and skills with us! :)

Interesting

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video and I watched it at normal speed. Sometimes you speak so fast I dial down the playback speed to 0.75. Yes, I know you are trying to keep the videos short as possible and interesting, of which they are. Plus you are not the only videos I have used that trick on.

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! That means I either you it easy on you or you are getting faster at following my insane pace 😆

Love the enthusiasm, so we ditch zone system 😏

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, nope! Just another tool in the toolbox here 😁

Is there a full course you offer on color theory?

@f64Academy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's called Palette Effects, 10 hours of education and a panel for Photoshop.

@eddiegutierrezjr6226

3 жыл бұрын

@@f64Academy I’m buying it this week. Color has been my biggest struggle as an artist

👍

As a subscriber, I searched you previous videos and noticed there was nothing about value grading - is this tone video the same - if so, how do they differ; how are they the same? Thanks so much Blake.

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

Can you explain "value grading" I'm not privy to that specific term.

@josephstanski5180

11 ай бұрын

The zone system of Ansel Adams. I know you've mentioned in some of your previous videos, but value grading has to do with comparing the lightest light with the darkest darks and not conder the croma (hue) but just the value (or what I'm interpetering as tones in your workflow. You mentioned some time ago you are also a painter (I am as well (watercolor)) so I sure you now "value" placement in your painting workflow. (The short verison Joe) Where, in your digital workflow, does value consideration fall as a consideration for editing your photos? Thanks so much Blake for indulging my curisioity. :o) @@f64Academy

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

@@josephstanski5180 oh for sure. I mean I'm always looking at the list light to the darkest dark, I'm manipulating them, exploiting them, and using them to my advantage to draw the viewers eye around the image. But it's also a very open ended question and image specific. Those things are always on my mind while I'm editing, but I think some of that is just second nature and it's just something that I do based on past experiments.

@josephstanski5180

11 ай бұрын

@@f64Academy This is a very creative and imaginivity process and one in which most of us out here amongst the chiggers and tick, would love to feast upon. Are three any of your videos on line (any subject, this one in particular) where you actually share those kinds of decision making with your students? Again Blake, thank you for share this process. J

@f64Academy

11 ай бұрын

@@josephstanski5180 yes. I have a course called Game of Tones. I share it all there 😁

👍👍👍👍👍

🤯

@f64Academy

4 жыл бұрын

:)