How do I use color grading in Lightroom? 2022

How do I use color grading in Lightroom? 2022

we're gonna look at the color grading panel in Lightroom. It totally changed a few months ago, and I want to show you what it does. It's really cool to live a special look to your photography, let's do it. (orchestral music) All right, so here I am in Lightroom. And before I show you the color grading, I want to show you something that I think is one of the Many reasons this panel exists. Which is what I called the Hollywood look or the orange and teal look. For example, you can see here, Bourne Identity, a great film with Matt Damon. You see how it's very blue. It's actually teal, it's between blue and green, and here is very orange. And this is from Transformer. You see how everything like all the shadows is very teal and how he's like, look how yellow and orange he is. Or this is from Madmax, you can see here,

Like, look at his skin how is yellow. And you can see here as there's a bit of green in his shadows there, or this is from Game Of Thrones. I mean, look at this. It's just like a two-color theme, teal, and orange, that's it. Even covers of, like this is teal, orange and this is blue. So what's the big deal about this teal, orange-ing, why is that? Well, let's go over to Adobe Color,

Adobe Color, it's a great site

to look at the color wheel color.adobe.com. And I'm gonna go to complimentary, complementary means two colors which are opposite on the wheel. And the theory is very simple. This is a skin tone here. So the skin tone, this is what the skin tones are in most Caucasians and the opposite is teal. So the idea is that if you have basically, something that's very orange and then in the back, it's something very blue, then you kind of stick out.

For example, like this, you see how now I'm like very sort of Hollywood looks in the video. I added some blue in my video and some orange on my skin, to make this sort of Hollywood look, let's go back to normal. Now let's talk about the color wheel. So the color wheel is this, it used to be called split toning. And now it's here, it's called color grading now. And basically what it does is you got three wheels, shadow, highlights, and mid-tones.

Like, let's look at shadows first. Basically shadows, well, let's retouch this photo just a little bit, so we can- This is a photo from Soho in New York. And I want to live like this very Hollywood look to it. So I'm gonna open the shadows, I'm gonna bring down the highlights a bit. I'm gonna do some black, some white, you know, maybe make it a little more bluish, maybe a bit brighter, a little bit bluer, and then let me crop it,

a great place to take photos. It's got great vibes to it. Okay so, but now I want to make this so it's coming out of a movie, so I'm gonna crop it 16x9 really quick. That's gonna help make sell it as a movie. And well, so now let's go back to color grading here. And so shadows, well very simple, you see, if I go all the way here, I'm gonna overdo it so you can see. I'm adding a lot of blues, but only the shadows, look in the darker spot here. And you can go around like this around, around the wheel. And I'm adding red, I'm adding orange, I'm adding green and between green and blue is teal, teal, the famous Hollywood color. So usually what I do is, I go all the way, and then you have this little tool here where it creates a line and that's the saturation, in the middle you're almost not using that color and as you go more outside of the circle, you're using it more. So I advise you not to use it too much, but you see how I'm adding some blue and some teal to maybe, let's go a little more teal in the shadows. Maybe let's add a little more and then I can do the opposite with the highlights. So the highlights are the same thing, let me overdo it. So look in the highlights, anything which is bright in the photo, and I'm gonna move around, see I'm adding orange, I'm adding yellow, I'm adding green, I'm adding blue. So if you want to go for the matrix looks,

You can add both green in the highlights and the shadows. But I want to go for a more Hollywood look. So I'm gonna go the opposite. I'm gonna go here in the orange section and I'm gonna back it down also. Now one new addition they added to this really cool thing is, you have the ability you see dark and white to make your shadows darker or brighter. So whatever you did there, it's gonna add on top of that, which is a great way to refine things. So, okay, so maybe I'm gonna make this a bit yeah, now a bit darker.

Perhaps I will make this a piece more splendid. How that is swimming just to features. And afterward, we have the mid-tones, so the mid-tones is, will impact the most the photographs. So we should get carried away to see. I'm going maroon, adding red kind of all over the place, orange all over, yellow all over, green all over the place. I generally don't contact it, assuming I double tap it, it returns it to the center. I for the most part don't contact this wheel. You could proceed to add some sort of look to it. You know, similar to films, for instance,

Used to have a ton of very shading cast like that. You can do that assuming you need, the same thing, you can open a shadow-The mid-tones, you can open the mid-conditions a smidgen here, and presto. Presently, you can likewise click here, to simply do the shadows, the mid-tones, or the features, or then again you can click here and you have every one of the three, which is what I like to do here. Furthermore, you additionally have this choice here, which is worldwide. So worldwide is going to change the whole photograph. It's similar to mid-tones on steroids. I never utilize worldwide actually.

Yet, you can, and afterward, you can likewise lower, similar to you can, for instance, I can add like a grid look to everything and afterward I'm like, "Goodness, it's excessively." And I can bring down the luminance. All things considered, that is exactly the same thing. It's simply the general splendor, the obscurity of the photograph. Once more, I'm not utilizing it worldwide. I like to go, similar to that. However, to see the when of any board in Lightroom, you can go here, previously, and later. this is the crude record. And afterward, how about we go here. I will do a smidgen of correcting. I will open the shadows. I will cut down the features a little. Whites, blacks, add a little of differentiation, openness, white equilibrium, definitely, perhaps it makes it a piece hotter, a smidgen redder. Furthermore, you know, I currently like it, however, we should accept it to the next Hollywood level, with the shading evaluation. So here on shading evaluating,

I will return to the three changes, I will go down here, I made my screen extremely huge, so you could truly see. So that is the reason I've simply looked over that board to such an extent. Furthermore, you know, it's a very low-goal screen. And afterward, I will add, so-Look at this, adding blue in the shadow is fascinating. So that is the Hollywood look. That is an alternate somewhat look, however Hollywood some of the time does blue, similar to see this, as, for instance, Christopher Nolan added bluer here. Michael Bay added more green, Round Of Thrones is greener.

You realize this was more green, yet it's sort of an all-the-time the cold tone in the shadows. It's somewhat a similar thought. So how about we go, Dark Knight, the Dark Knight Rises. So not really, somewhat, how about we in all actuality do like a Dark Knight photograph. And afterward, I'm going to, in the features, I'm going to add some yellow, orange perhaps and afterward presto, how about we see the previous and the later. Gracious, incidentally, I will show you on representations how to make it happen.

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And love this photo of my beautiful Marine. I'm just doing a basic retouching. But again, very classic. You know, the Hollywood look, looks great in portrait. It gives us, you just move this to the color you want. So try blue and green, I mean, you can go the opposite. You can make this like very vintage, you know, I can make like a vintage by adding warms in the shadows, I don't have to go for that Hollywood look. So let's try that look and then let's try adding the opposite. Let's try adding a little bit of blue to the shirt.

It's kind of weird, but why not? Let's check it out. Before, after. Yeah, it's kind of weird. I think the Hollywood look is gonna work better. So let's go back to the teal, not so much. And then let's go back to the orange, something like that. And now you got a proper Hollywood look. Yeah, you see that's really the sort of the Hollywood look. I mean, they really overdo it, look how yellow she looks, she looks sick, but the eyes get, we get so used to it.

I don't like to go so strong, on movie's kinda fine, on a photo I think it's too much, like if I would go like something like that, and then what they do also is they go in the skin here. I can double-click and add like some yellow to make it even more with a filter, you know, that's, you know, that's kind of almost too crazy. I'm gonna use an illuminance mask so that I'm more just on her face, a little bit like that, or actually the opposite like that. But you know, it's way too much.

I don't want to use a circle. Yeah, it's way too much. I think this is kinda cool. Let me show you another photo of Marine. Let me reset it. A cool photo of a Marine dressed up as a cowboy. So, open the shadows, boost the whites, (indistinct) the exposure, crush the blacks. I like the white balance, is pretty cool. And now let's do a little bit of Hollywood look. So I'm gonna add a bit of, look at that, right away it looks like a movie. dang.

Like that and like that, some oranges. And just like that, you get this really cool look- I never really used the mid-tones. I mean, you can go around and maybe make the mid-tones even more orange if you want to go crazy. Check it out, before, after. It's a look. You gotta love it, but again, you don't have to do that. You know, it just adds a little thing. So you can- I can reset this and I can go for a vintage look. I can just add some sh-

Some warm in the shadows and then, and do nothing in the highlights and make, maybe here at you know, just some, let's see here. What else can we do? You just move it around and see if there's something that you like. No, nothing that I like here in mid-tone. So all I did here on this one was, add some warmth in the shadows. It gives a little, jenesequa to your photo. That's the color grading tool in Lightroom, it's fun.