slides for in-company training session SBS Belgium day 2

1. Color Correction
and Color Toning

2. What is the difference?
• Color Correction = getting rid of a color cast
• Color grading = adding color to tell a story

3. color correction
• there are many tools available. try out the following tools:
• Image>auto color
• adj layer photo filter > check neutralize, enter
• adj. layer Curves> in one of the color channels pull up or down the middle of
the curve
• try the method on the following slide color,
blending the inverse color of the cast

4. Remove color cast
• sample color in hilights
• fill layer, invert, blend mode
color, opacity ~8%, protect
shadows in “blend if”
• repeat for shadows
https://fstoppers.com/studio/check-out-brilliant-way-remove-color-casts-photoshop-8036

5. Correction tips for Filmic Look
• keep saturation and contrast down
• balance out colors

6. Grading helps tell a story
• warm & happy
• cold & serious
• clear & natural
• unnatural / science fiction

7. Complementary colors

8. Teal and Orange

9. Adding Color with Curves Adjustment
RED
CYAN
GREEN BLUE
MAGENTA YELLOW
direct select

10. retro film look
• photo filter blue,
preserve luminosity
• blend mode: exclusion
• opacity ~30%
• add noise

11. photo filter underwater-multiply

12. LUTs / Look Up Tables
• mathematical color conversion
files
• for Color Grading photo and film
• Photoshop simplest tool to make
• make
• import image
• add and tweak adjustment layers
• File>Export>Color Lookup Tables
• use
• Add Adj. Layer> Color Lookup ...