Advanced Options and Techniques with Filters & Local Adjustments - ON1 Recorded Webinar

so today we're going to be talking about some advanced options inside of filters and local adjustments and it's like me a crazy long webinar I really just want to break it into kind of two parts the first part being blending modes if you're not sure what blending modes are they're a really awesome way to blend certain effects and layers onto your images pull out certain tones without modifying any of the exposure they're a really cool tool for photography so we're gonna start up with blending modes and then we'll move on to the apply to menu and the apply to menu is not crazy complicated but it can be a bit confusing with some of the filters and local adjustments so if we're gonna dive into that at the end but let's get started here first with blending modes so with blending modes there's five kind of blend modes that I think everyone should at least have a basic understanding of and that's multiply screen overlay and soft light but overlay and stuff that are kind of similar hue and color which are kind of similar as well and then luminosity so that's a bit that's seven but we're they're kind of all similar a little bit so let's jump in here and we'll take this photo here so the first one we're gonna talk about is the multiply blend mode now the multiply blend mode is kind of a complicated blend mode if you actually read the description we're gonna break it down really simply for this webinar so if the first blend mode we're gonna talk about is multiply no the multiply blend mode darkens your image it's the only thing you need to know about the multiply blend mode right now is that it's going to darken your photograph so if you have a kind of blown out image and you don't want to go in and modify the exposure or whatever circumstances there is you just want to use this blend mode it's a really easy to blend mode just to take down the exposure of your photo so let's go into the effects tab and you can use this with layers you can use this with filters you can use this with local adjustments anywhere you can use the blending modes you can use this multiply window so I'm gonna first show you it on a filter so just add a filter and then we'll add a curves filter I typically like using the curves filter for blend modes and the reason being is because when you add a curves filter it's not going to do anything to your photograph so you basically have a blank slate here for your image well once you add a blend mode to this kind of no filter no being it's not doing anything so once I go in here and I add oh sorry we need to go let's back up and how to get to the blood notes so now that I've added this kind of no filter on to my image if I want to just use this filter to darken things on my shot I'm gonna use my blending options now to access my blending options I just go to this little gear icon here so this little gear icon right there and it lives um you know in your effects tab right here it lives in your curves it lives up in your layers right there so it's just that little gear icon and that gear icon is where you're going to access your blending options so for this curves filter I'm gonna go into my gear icon here now I have my blending options right there you can see that so in my mode I'm just gonna go to the mode and there's a ton of different modes here there's all these different blend modes again we're only really focusing on five for seven but the two will auxilary ones we're gonna talk about are kind of similar so let's scuse me let's go up to multiply so remember multiply is going to darken you are imaged so if I go to multiply boom it immediately darkens my photograph so all I have now is this curves filter with literally nothing applied to it and the blend mode at multiply so I have a darken kind of filter here so I turn this up and on it see its to an awesome job just darkening things ups removing some of the bright highlights I can kind of see through this window now well in this curves filter because I haven't done anything to the filter yet I still can control some of the tonality just by modifying these tones so with a tone curve if you're not familiar it works really simply the bottom left area is your black point and then as we move up the kind of graph or the tone curve it just gets brighter and brighter so we have our blacks down here and then as we move up we got our kind of shadow tones right there and then the middle mid-tones and then we have our kind of highlights and then our whites you can also see this represented here over to the left with this little bar you can see it's black at the bottom and then it's white as it goes up that's just telling you that's your tongue curve going up so with this tone curve now that I've darkened things a bit well if I don't like how the tongue curve is making this look well I can actually brighten things up if I want to so if I want to add in more mid-tones I can just put a point there on my shadows and put a point here on my highlights so those are constant and then I'll drop a point here on my mid-tones and then I'll just pull it up a little bit and you can see of boosting my mid-tones in here let's make it a little bit stronger let's move these up a little bit but now if I pull up on my mid-tones here see how I'd still have control of that filter even though I have that blending mode applied to it so if I do want to come back and maybe add it a little more highlight tone or shadow telling I want to pull up on the blacks a bit I still have that ability even though I've added in that blending mode so with the multiply blend mode you can do a lot of things so let's go to a different photo here let's grab this shot again just kind of a brighter photo and so what you can do is you can add different filters on to it and it will apply that filter but then once you applied the blend mode it'll incorporate that blending as well that's kind of sounding confusing but so let's go in here and we'll add we'll add a less filter so we've got kind of this style going on well now let's go into our blending modes and we'll go to multiply so now we have our blue LUT added on we've kind of blued the city down a bit it looks a bit more vibrant if you will well now in this let's filter I can turn this off and on and I'm darkening things a bit as well so with that darkening I'm also applying the LUT filter so you can still apply blending modes on top of the filters and so on and so forth you're not really restricted to just that blend mode when you're applying it to the filter or the local adjustment and you can do the same thing with local adjustments so if I go over here and I use like a gradient so if you want to use like a gradient to mask out this sky area we'll just use it's already set to darken so so we'll just see how that looks with darken and then we can use the multiply to kind of increase the darkening so if I hold down shift in it K that's gonna grab me my adjustable gradient so now if I drop this down here I'll just flip this around so it's kind of just on the sky like that and then we'll just drag this down a little bit so now we can see it's darkening the sky a little bit well if I go over to my local adjustment and I go into my blending options and I go to my mode if I go and I use a blending mode let's say multiply it's only gonna dark in that area that I mask so this is a really easy way if you want to darken areas around like a portrait or a really intense sky especially if you're masking out like a really really blown out sky you could use we'll get into it later on in the video but you can use like the overlay blend mode which adds in contrast and kind of just do the same approach so yeah that's the x mode again just darkens things up so if you need just a quick little darkening or a little increase in your darkening for your filter or local adjustment whatever it may be go for the multiply blend mode you could also use like a different layer so one thing you could do this is kind of a fun way to do it as well is you could go to your layers here and so we'll just rename this base so our base photo right well now let's use our base photo duplicated as our control layer for the look of our shot everything is non-destructive in photo right anyway but when you start playing with photo and if you kind of come up with just a little creative ways to start modifying stuff so with this layer I'm going to right click it and then I'm going to duplicate that layer don't show me that again so now I have this base copy of this rename it's control so with this control layer I'm gonna go up to my blend mode and I'm gonna choose multiply now that's blending that extra layer on top of my base layer so my control layer now is blended with that multiply blend mode darkening things up so now I can use my control layer with that blend mode and if I go into my develop tab I couldn't modify you know my exposure my contrast and all of this is only applied to that trol layer nothing is applied to my base layer yet so I can really use this really just see what a look looks like so if I go in here and let's just pull up on the mid-tones a bit I'll add in some blacks add in some structure and then let's just cool it off a bit I feel like that so now I can see oh that looks ok that's not bad but I can always go up here to my opacity and I'll just lower this a bit and I can kind of control that control layer or that look on my shot and I can always go back in and add stuff to this control layer so if I want to add an effect I could add maybe a vignette or something oh not vintage although that didn't look too bad but you know you could add a vignette here and so it's just all applied to this one layer up there that has the blend mode so it's blending all of that on top of your base layer again multiply darkens things up so that's the first blend mode that I think everybody should have just kind of a general knowledge of again I would definitely look at we care I hate seeing Adobe site but they invented them so Adobe site has all of the blend modes there if you're on a computer just maybe Google like multiply blend mode how does it work and you'll see what I'm talking about the definitions they're really intense but because of the the complexity of how these looks are achieved it's really easy to use these to blend things in with other other photos and such so so I'm gonna move these and we're gonna talk about the screen blenheim multiply darkens your image as a blend mode screen is going to brighten your image multiply darkens screen brightens so if I go and I do the same thing as we did earlier I add a filter I'll add a curves filter in this tone curve nothing is being applied nothing is happening hit the backslash K my keyboard there's a little lens correction but nothing else so in this curve if I go into my blending modes with the gear icon again I'll go to my mode I'll just go up and I'll go to screen look the screen blend mode just brightens things up it brightens your image so if multiplied or khun's screen brightens they're kind of the opposite of each other and this is really helpful when you're doing like double explosion double exposures and things like that which I think that's going to be the next webinar is just kind of more advanced technique techniques with like masking and this stuff so the last week's webinar was selective editing at masking so now we're moving on to kind of the Advanced Options with filters and blending so you can kind of use all these and then you know really create a style for yourself with composites and creative editing so screen brightens so with the screen blend mode again you can use the curved filter kind of method and then you can control you know like the shadows and your highlights a bit better and then I don't really have much going on here but I have a little bit of a cinematic vibe and then if I turn this off you can see that curve filter with that screen blend mode apply it does a whole lot to the shot and that's just by using that again just that blend mode so we could do the same thing again with local adjustments and this is where it's nice with masking so we're gonna mask on a little bit of this but I'm just going to mask it on the areas that we want to so we're gonna go in here and I'm gonna reduce the exposure or take the exposure back to zero so we're not actually applying anything and then I'm going to use my blending mode I'm gonna go to screen and so nothing is applied because with local adjustments you have to apply something for it to be seen because in masking white reveals and black conceals and we have black right here so we're not seeing anything so well let's just invert this thing you can see what's going on so if I invert that I can see that it's brightening things up I have nothing going on in this local adjustment but this screen blend mode so with this local adjustment because I can easily mask it on selectively I can use kind of an anti vignette to just bring out the tones around our model here so I'll just again hold down shift I'll hit K on my keyboard I'll go up to my gradients and I'm gonna choose Center believe so I'm just gonna choose the center shape and that's going to make sure that the mask is applied inside or that the effects like inside of the mask so I drew up so it's edges so I need edges sorry good those two mix em a lot but so edges will apply the adjustment or filter inside of the mask where a center will apply it outside of the mask okay so now that we have our edges shape drop down here with this kind of gradient now I can just use these little handles I'll just make it a little bit smaller and then I'm just gonna kind of put it right towards her face and then I'll make it even more long maybe not like bad a little more width there we go just kind of silhouetting around her and we don't need to have this very strong but what we're gonna do right now is we're just gonna fit there this a ton kind of like that and then what we can do is we can always go back to this adjustment we can lower the opacity of that adjustment we can also again play with any of these things in the adjustment so if I want to add a little more contrast or less contrast I'm gonna go in here and add just maybe a little more mid-tone boost like that and a little bit of white so it's more realistic and so you can really get kind of a nice subtle look by using these blend modes on top of different adjustments within the filter or you know that layer or whatever you're using and then I can you know come in here and I'll maybe just increase the temperature here I'll give it a little bit more color on her and so now with just this local adjustment if I turn this off and on I mean we basically have set all of the tonality for the shot just by using that one local adjustment and then I can always go back you know I can always go back into my develop tab and I could use you know I could modify any of these tonality sliders if I want to I could use a a match so it's just kind of the world is your oyster when it comes to these blend modes they're really fun to use they're super super great at like making natural-looking shots so just just start playing them okay so now we're moving on to overlay that's the contrast when I was kind of talking about earlier let me see if there are there any questions before I move on to overlay and softly oops so Richard asked why not use darken instead of multiply they do different things so if I go up to this photograph and we go in here we'll add a filter a lot of curves filter so if we go in here and we add we go to the darken blend mode it's not gonna do anything if you're looking for coming in depth course of black about blend modes we did one a few months back it was like this mini course and we went over I think 10 of them really in-depth ly think darkens one of them a lot of link to that on this video but that has a more way many more in depth about each blend mode this is just kind of these ones multiply screen overlay soft light hue color luminosity but again darken does different things that multiply I know that's kind of confusing dark and seems like would be the one that darkens things but they they do different things but good question thanks for the question if you're curious on what these blend modes do again they're really complex things so if you're kind of wondering which one specific one does just google it Google that blend mode what it does and I'm sure it'll have kind of a definition for you so Larry asks what was the point of using in the control layer what would you do with the base layer after you can trade create the control layer so the control area was basically just the the layer that I'm going to use to make all the modifications to that base photo it's just another way to kind of have a different control that of the opacity of those you can blend things in a little bit more subtly so for example with this photograph if I take the the blend mode off and we go to our develop I don't know I can't see my layers I've got open so I'll duplicate this layer right and so we have our base layer actually yeah we'll just do it there so that I'm going to have our control layer and so what I could do here is I could go into my blend modes I could multiply this to make it dark and then I could make it incredibly dark but then I could pull up on my whites a little bit and now because I have this control layer I can always revert back to this shot immediately I can always see what that original photo looks like without actually going down and modifying or going into my local and turning this off or going to my developer screen this off I can kind of see my original well I guess you can do that with preview after but I know it's just another way to like have another little just a little more control on your shot I guess and everybody does things differently so just kind of up to you on how you want to use these blend modes but sometimes I'll just go in here and add a couple layers and then I can see what each different layer does to my shot like it can add I can duplicate this I'll reset this entire layer or I'll turn it back to normal and I can get you to turn this off I'll rename this one and we'll just do overlay for this one so I could see what this looks like with overlay or soft light which it doesn't like that great but it's again just another kind of extra layer of control with your image yeah you can do it differently too if you wanted to go in here and actually modify you know your developed tab separately and then do the effects with the blend mode but I just found that this way it just makes everything a little bit more blended and I can always go back and again lower the opacity to that layer really quickly oh this layer but again just personal preference for for editing okay so let's move on here just reset all these layers ok so now we have soft light and overlay oh wait let me just show you to this screen again just one one other example so screen also again brightens things so it's really awesome for just like dark scenes like this and what you can do with it is just apply it selectively so with this we know we kind of want this middle area with that kind of exam exposure so we can do is here in here we can go into our effects tab we can add a filter I'll add the curves filter again kind of my control Knoll layer Knoll adjustment layer if you're familiar with after effects but I'll just rename this screen gradient and so now I'll go in here I'll use my screen blend mode so I can see it brightens things up I don't really like how bright it got in the middle so I'll just hit M on my keyboard that's going to grab me my masking bug now with my masking bug I'm gonna go to my shape I can go to reflected gradients and that will reflect the mask on both sides and so if I drop this down here I can kind of flip this I'll just angle it how I want it maybe you know blend those out a little bit feather those and then I'll just go to my screen grading here I'll go to the masking remember that white reveals black conceals so you can see that we're revealing this onto these areas so we want this opposite so we'll invert this oh wait no I'm sorry we had it right so now we a so we want we had the white on the right side so if we look at this we're keeping the tonality in the middle what we're brightening the sides on the left and the right if that makes sense so with this reflected gradient now because I have those whites everywhere outside of the middle I'm protecting the middle and if I turn this off and on that's only applied to this area to the right and to the left and again I can go in here I can kind of make that less faded maybe make this a little smaller there we go maybe like that so now it's a little bit more natural but then we have a little more even scene and that's just by using that again screen blend mode and then a gradient mask so London's just kind of save me a lot of time if you want to just a quick adjustment to things you don't really have to go in and modify any tonality exciters or anything and just screen brighten things up multiply darken things up yeah so that's screen alright so we've on to soft light and overlay overlay and off light are similar they're very very similar blend modes overlay and stuff light are in the contrast category of blend modes that means they're going to create contrast within your scene so if I go and do my little curves technique I had a curves filter and I'll go to my blending options I'll go to my mode and now let's go to overlay so if I go to overlay you can see it's adding in contrast it's not brightening things up really I mean a contrast brighten things up adding in white but it's not really brightening up the scene a lot all we really see is that intense contrast as it's adding and the reason I say that overlay and sockliner similar is because soft light is basically overlay but not as strong so just think of overlay as your really intense contrast Adder matter and then think of your soft light as just kind of the more mellow contrast I mean they're pretty still gross pretty intense but so if we look at this this is overlay right and then let's go to soft light so overlay soft light again very subtle differences but there is a difference there so soft light overlay soft light overlay overlay so if you if your info to run out right now and you're playing with some images just kind of hover over these two and you'll see oh there's just just a little tiny difference of contrast I would I almost think that the soft light kind of removes some of the mid-tone contrast that's just me but if I if I go to this overlay it looks like a lot of the contrast is added to these mid-tone so I think soft like just kind of say midtones just a hair but I could be wrong anyway so that's the overlay and stoplight blend modes so perfect for adding in contrast this scene in particular obviously if I want to turn down the contrast but this is without it and then this is with you know fifty percent of it back so you can see it's a really powerful blend mode and again just adds in contrast which is a really important factor and a lot of images so with this scene in particular we could easily use some contrast in this area it's a little blown out overcast days generally do have a little lack of contrast because there's not a whole lot of Sun so you can get away with this one pretty easily on some overcast days if we do like a maybe a brighter day type scene it's a little harder to get away with but you can always go back and again modify the opacity and you can also use different blend modes on top of each other so if you wanted to add in a little bit of contrast but also brighten the scene up a little bit you can do that as well so if I go and I add a filter I'll do my curbs thing which I always do I'll go to soft light so I have some contrast and maybe let's add a filter and let's do our curves again and let's maybe make this one multiply so it darkens so now I have that really intense contrast and also that really intense darkening agent on my shot but the cool thing about photo raw is that I can modify my effects tab in its entirety so if I wanted to turn a blend mode onto these two filters that already have blend modes I can go up into my effects tab I can click on this gear icon and now I can apply a blending mode to all of these filters so let's say I wanted to brighten these up maybe I could go down to screen and now that's brightening all these up so I could just maybe actually probably don't want that that intense but I mean you kind of get the idea you know it's like you can really start getting creative with adding different things and taking different things away so yeah really just kind of fun way to add in different styles and think about different thing about editing in a different way than you normally would yeah that's kind of looks janky but again just kind of a demonstration here so let's add another let's do that curves again and let me show you kind of how I would do a soft light blend so I would go on my curves I would use my soft light blend mode again and so I'll go down to soft light just like that so with the soft light blue if I turn this off and on here I typically like contrast applied selectively if I need to or if I if if I'm applying contrast I typically like to apply it selectively especially in landscapes so I turn this off and on obviously it's blowing out that sky area and it's also having a little bit of crunch back here where we don't want it so let's just apply this selectively by using our masking bug I'll just M on my keyboard that's gonna grab me my masking bug I'll go to my shape and then I'll choose gradient presets I'll just choose linear bottom because I want to remove it from the top then I can just drop this down like that now it's removed so added another one so I can just pull that up a little bit well feather it maybe and now we've only applied this this kind of soft light blend over to the foreground and it makes it look a lot nicer now we have a more cohesive scene on our hands so I guess I'm just arcing it like with great power comes great responsibility so these blend modes sometimes can be very very intense so just make sure that you're thinking about its kind of the original photo and what you were trying to achieve with that original shot because you can again get really crazy with these blend modes and sometimes you won't even notice it you'll just like oh my gosh I had a lot all these weird adjustments and I got this but yeah so just never lose sight of that original vision that you're trying to achieve with these blend modes but again they're super fun so play with in a bunch all right so that's soft light soft light overlay again contrast contrast contrast contrast so multiply darkens screen brightens overlay and soft light will add in contrast now let's move on to let's see here come on there we go okay so alright so hue and color so human color are a really really fun kind of pair of blend modes so the hue and color blend modes are part of the color I don't have to maybe color blend those I think but anyway these two blend modes hue and color modify colored your hue blend mode strictly applies filters adjustments or layers to the hue whatever color you're playing it to now people often get confused between hue and color well here is the actual color it's like the color with no Gray's no black Snow White's it's just that color so if you had like the yellow on a banana that's the hue of that color that be that yellow you had chocolate milk if you had kind of just white milk and then you went to chocolate milk that's the hue of that white going from from white to dark that's the heat so when you're thinking of these two blend modes hue and color especially he was going to modify just the color it's not gonna modify any of those bright tones it's not gonna incorporate any Gray's it's just gonna modify the color so it's a really helpful tool if you want to modify like the color of a shirt color of a bag the color of someone's hair so it's really kind of creative in that way products especially and then with color you're modifying the color again because obviously it says the color blend but with that you're incorporating the tones that were already there so if you pick the color blend mode and you want to change a blue to a red when you're planting when you're painting on that red it's going to incorporate whatever grays and whites and blacks are in that blue into that rent which sounds kind of confusing right now but let's just start with the hue and then we'll move on and you'll be like oh I get what he's saying so hue blend mode will go into our local adjustments and let's say we want to change this dress color to like like a soft nude color so let's go paint with color maybe you use our local color dropper let's just paint it kind of the same color as this back maybe let's go in here and maybe make it a little more no I want like a pink color cutter well let's do like that kind of like a sorry our so let's do that that's kind of like a nude color so that looks not bad like that so with this color actually looks kind of green I'm sorry let's just choose a basic basic color there we go that's better okay sorry that takes long okay so now we're gonna go up to our gear icon and we're going to choose a different mode so in our mode our blending modes we're gonna go down to hue now we haven't done anything yet to this adjustment or anything we've just chose our paint with color and we have our solid paint option chosen and so now if we paint on this adjustment it's going to take over the color of whatever I painted onto you so actually I'm sorry I keep changing the colors but I'm again just gonna drop this on this bag just to make it cohesive and then I'll just add in a little bit more red cool so that's kind of the opposite of the slew which is nice so now with this you blend mode now watch as I just with my adjustment brush no perfect brush or anything 100% opacity as I brush this on you can see immediately that that reddish color is taking over the scene it's taking over that dress but it's blending it in with just the hue we're not taking over any of the of the tonality of the dress we're just modifying the color so if we were to use the color blend mode it would be mixing the grays and the whites and the blacks and you could get a brighter color or a darker color with the heel we're strictly modifying that hue just the color tone just the color Tory not Eddie and the middle Gray's the blacks or the whites so a really powerful tool if you're just wanting to modify just like this you know just paint on like a different color for a shirt or something so we just go in here I mean I'm not gonna go in too crazy but you can get the idea of just how easy this is to do you know and it's just look at that we're basically we're literally changing her dress color and that's kind of a bad paint but sorry I'm not leaving the lines a ton a little bit but now look at that it's like we just changed the entire color of her dress and a few brushstrokes just by using that Hublot note again the heat blend mode is going to modify just the color just the color in the image they're gonna modify any of the color gray is or any of that it's just gonna modify that hue so I turn this off and on now you can see immediately just takes over the color so a really really great way to just switch up the color of a scene switch up the color of a dress and you could get you know pretty crazy with us too you know if you wanted to go like green look at that so it's again just taking over that color so a really fun way to you know especially with product photography if you need to maybe change the color of a yellow to more of an orange color or something maybe making it more appealing this is a great way to do that these blend modes really help with that sort of thing so that's the hue blend mode again just modifies the the hue just the color if there's color there so if there was white if this was completely white this hue blend mode wouldn't work because there's no color there so let's move on to the color blend mode so I'm gonna kind of demonstrate the two right now will demonstrate the the hue again and then the color so we'll do color first so let's do the same thing we did here and let's just name this one color blend and let's go down to paint with color and let's try to maybe make this take this orange and just put it on this pink so we'll just go down to our color dropper and drop it on the orange here just like that so we have that orange color and now we'll go to our gear icon here and we'll go to mode and we'll go down to color so by using the color blend mode here I have this orange selected so now watch as I just kind of brush this on freely I'm not gonna be too intense about staying in between the lines because it'll give you an idea of how this blend mode works so again the color blend though is going to be blending in whatever adjustment filter or effect you have and it's going to blend it into the color and all of the kind of whites and grays and blacks that are incorporated in that color the entire color tone basically essentially so as I paint this color blend on you can see it's replacing the color really well but I'm not strictly taking just this color I can see that it's actually taking a lot of those bright tones in that pink and it's incorporating those in to my shot so if I go down here and I paint this on to here you can see it's really really bright because again it's taking those tones and those middle grays and whites in that color and it's incorporating that into the blend so let's turn that color blend off and now let's go and we'll add an adjustment and we'll turn this on and let's go to hue blend and we'll do the same thing will click paint with color use their color dropper what do we drop about right there so I'll just drop that we have the orange right so now we'll go up to our gear icon we'll go into our mode and then we'll go to Q so now keep an eye on just kind of the brightness and the overall tone of the color that I paint onto these two colors and also keep an eye so let's just turn this off real quick and just keep an eye on the whites so you can see that if i zoom in here just by painting that on even though there's not a whole lot of color in that white it's still painting on that adjustment there that's another thing they keep in mind with that color blending them again it's going to apply this color or this effect onto the the entire color tone in your shot it's not going to apply to the kind of luminance not going to modify any of the like exposure or anything like that but it's gonna modify the tones in the color so we'll zoom out here and we'll turn that again off but you remember you could see a little bit of that that orange on the whites and the paper so now with the hue blend mode I'm just gonna hit K on my keyboard again and so paint with color and my Hublot mode and we'll do the same exact thing again just keep kind of pay attention to the tones of what each blend mode paints on so now if I paint this on here you can see that hardly to paint it anything onto the white because again there's not hardly any color in there it's just if it was strictly white it wouldn't do a thing and then watch as I go over here it's even more dull because again we're only modifying the the hue of the colors in that tip of that marker we're not modifying any of the tones in those colors so we'll turn off the heat blend mode okay that's this is hue and then this is color you can see it's about twice as bright so those are just kind of things to think about whenever you're using one of the two he was gonna modify it just strictly the color really great for things like I just showed you maybe changing the color of a shirt whereas the a color blend mode is better for changing things when you need to incorporate a little more liveliness into the tones of that color to kind of change the tonality of that color this will be fun maybe I'm like a building and you can also probably do it in product photography as well but I would maybe stick to the hue at first just to have a little bit more control of those tones in those specific shots so the hue blend mode again applies the filter adjustment layer to the color specifically the color that hue of that color where the color blend mode applies the adjustment and effects to all of the tones in that color as well as the color itself it's kind of that's not the kind of a lot to wrap your head around but the more you use the - you can kind of differentiate between what does what so again just playing with them helps and kind of reading the definitions and just thinking about what the the base look they achieve and it'll really kind of help you with using them so our last one here I guess we're gonna use this guy for two examples but let's go in pretty long we haven't even gotten to the apply - menu yet oh well this would be a good one so for this guy a beautiful colored photograph right tons of amazing colors in this shot so let's just pull up on the saturation a little bit just a hair like that so we have this these beautiful colors in our scene right on this bird and the next blend though they don't want to talk to you about is the luminosity blend them now the luminosity blend mode strictly applies the filter or adjustment or layer just into the luminance values of your image so you're not modifying the color or any of the tones of the colors you're just modifying the luminance of your photo as a whole basically this is or the luminosity blend mode is like your your tone in your develop tab you're only modifying the tone you're not bringing out any of the color tones or anything like that and the great thing about the luminosity but if you do modify specific tones that would normally darken a color you're going to protect those colors so if you darken an image typically you're going to increase the saturation because you're increasing the contrast well with the luminosity blend one you can protect those those vibrant colors even when you're darkening things so if I go over to my effects tab here I'll add a filter and again I use the kerbs filter but the curve field there is a really good filter especially for the luminosity blend mode because it's like the curves filter without affecting any of your color so if I go to my blending options I go to my mode I'll go to luminosity so actually well sorry let's go back and we'll just do normal so we run normal oh close that it's run normal here for now and let's just maybe darken things up I'm gonna be adding a little bit of kind of a cinematic look if you will so there we go we kind of have this cinematic look it's a little muggy a little muddy and we don't really see any of those color details and it will kind of oversaturated and dark but what we can do is if we go into our mode for blending options we'll just go down to luminosity and again it's very subtle but let me just pull up on this image a little bit so there we go and let's just kind of do this again so in this blend mode if I pull up on any of these tones you can see it's not modifying any of those colors in the shot but if I had this at normal and I were to go in here you can see if I pull down it's darkening up all those different colors so let's just make it really intensely strong again then you guys can kind of see so if I go into here and I go to mode and now I go down to luminosity so that's I mean again it's pretty contrasted but if we zoom in here kind of just to these tones over here and we go to normal so that's normal right and then this is luminosity so it's just protecting those color tones in your shop it's only applying the adjustment to the the luminance values so if I add a filter a good one another good one to do this with is the lust filter so let's say you like this kind of tone on your scene but you don't like what it does to the colors just go to your gear options for that LUT go into your mode and go to luminosity now we're protecting those colors if in our scene but we're also applying kind of that that LUT tonality vibe with this preset you could also do the same thing with you know color as well so if I go in here and I reset these Luntz and we'll do burn a great this and so you can see it kind of dims things down a bit takes away some of the the color tones of it so if I want to just protect the the luminance in my shot and modify the color so I'll go up to my blending options I'll go to my mode and then I'll just choose color so now if I turn this off and on I'm not modifying anything with the luminance or the tones or bringing anything any of the values of the exposure up I'm just modifying that color so that's helpful if you want to dim down a color specifically within your scene without modifying kind of the brightness or darkness of it yeah so those are just kind of a few ways that you can use those blood ones again luminosity blend mode is great for just applying your filter to the luminance values the tonality is of your scene and then the the color is great for just applying that filter or adjustment just to the color and the tones of that color I know that was a lot in 50 minutes but trust me the more you play with them you'll be like oh it's just they're a lot more basic than you think I mean they're very complex things but you can use them to do a lot of basic things in your photography okay so last a little bit we have about 20 minutes here so let's just jump right into the apply to menu I'm gonna say there's any questions real quick before I move on so if you want to reset the curve I'll have a question from somebody how to reset the tone curve so if you add a filter here we'll add the curves filter I've been trying to get this added in the photo raw for a long time it has it but you gotta you can't actually remove individual things in here so if you do this you can't actually like right-click it and move it but the only thing you can do to reset the curve is just click reset this little arrow so just right there do anything to it just arrow that little reverse arrow that'll reset everything one day we will have the points able to remove yeah so let's move on to the election menu here let's grab a different photo and let's use this photo okay so the apply to menu within a filter or adjustment or whatever you're using it's a great way to just apply things strictly to maybe a tone or a color and then have that blended in so if I add a filter here let's let's first start with a dynamic contrast mask that'll be a lot easier to see so the dynamic contrast filter let's say I want this dynamic contrast filter applied to just this pink so we'll click surreal right so if we go in here bada bing bada boom tons of the name of contrast on our shot well what's that we only want this dynamic contrast applied to the pink in our photo well first we do it with a color range mask so let's try again a color range mask so we'll click color range and then we'll go in here and we'll click that pink again like that so again if we view this because we've chosen that pink we have our pink you can see we have that pink color but again it's adding in a little bit extra the dynamic contrast into these areas where we don't want it so if we go back when we view that photo and we zoom in here but turn this off and on yeah it's applied to the pink but it's also applied to this area to the right quite a bit to the left and this chord so what I typically do in these situations when I'm just wanting to apply one tonal adjustment specifically to that tone is I'll reset this entire thing or no it's just going here when we name this color range so we'll turn that off and then we'll do the same thing we'll add a filter dynamic contrast surreal again sorry that's sticking so on and then we'll go to our blending options our mode another mode sorry so we have surreal right and now we're going to go into our blending options we'll go to our apply too and this time we're gonna zoom in and we're gonna drop the same dropper like this apply to dropper on the same area that we dropped the color range drop it on this pink right so now that I dropped that on there remember with the color range mask and we'll just rename this again apply too but if I hide the apply too so we'll just turn the arab will turn they apply to off and on so with the apply to do off on you can see it's strictly just applied excuse me to that area in here and then if I turn this off here's the color range so a little bit sloppier you can see that this is applied kind of everywhere down here but it's also applying over here to these cracks and if I turn this off and I go to apply to turn this off and on it's not applying anywhere out here it's only applied into these tones inside of that pink because I've chosen that with the applied to menu now what they apply to menu because I'm choosing custom I can go in here and I can increase the range but it's a very subtle range slider and I've kind of found that it doesn't do a whole lot whenever you're modifying tones like this so that's kind of that that trade-off when you're with color when you're using color range mask so you have a whole lot of control on that mask and how to use it but with the apply to you really kind of stuck in that one tone that you choose but the one time that you choose is really nicely blended so again just personal preference on how you want to use them yeah so let's kind of use these all in conjunction with each other let's go here and now let's kind of let's use the applied to menu with some blending options so let's say I want to just modify the color of this pool a different color well I'll go to my local adjustments I'll click paint with color and let's use let's just choose this kind of nasty yellow so we have this yellow here down on the bottom and now let's go to our blending options here and let's say we only want this yellow color to be blended in with the specific color of blue that's there so to do that again what are we gonna use the hue blend uh so we'll go to our mode we'll go down to hue and again this is strictly applying that adjustment all into the specific color of blues here so I'm not gonna be modifying any of these bright whites into the Blues it's just gonna pull this color on there so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna do sorry we're gonna use the apply to menu to really make sure it's applied to those blues so if I use this hue and here and I went in here and I painted this it's gonna just apply it to those blues but whatever color it sees it's gonna paint that yellow on to it so you can see it painted a little bit of yellow on to kind of these rails there which I don't want so I can go in here to my blending options and I'll click this apply to dropper and let's just drop it on this blue color right there so we have that kind of custom blue color right there and now I can just make my brush size as big as I want and it's only gonna paint on to those blues because that's where I've chosen that apply to menu I've chosen hey photo ah apply this to this specific area and that's kind of what the apply to menu does and so the more I modify kind of my range you can see it's very subtle so this is at zero and this is at 100 again this is very subtle but it does help a little bit to just kind of maybe tone things down a hair so if you wanted to maybe remove a little bit of that yellow right there you could do that pretty easily but you can see it does a great job of replacing that color because we've used that hue blend mode to a specifically apply that color to those blues or whatever color is in our scene and then we've kind of specified where to apply the hue blend mode with the apply to menu and then we've chosen our color with the paint with color and we can always go in here and change out the color so if you want to go in here and change it back to a blue or you can make it a little more green tinted I actually kind of like that green a lot and so now we could do the same thing we'll just name this one water but we can do the same thing with the yellow down here so let's just go to our adjustment we'll name this one will not yellows we'll just name it deck full deck so we have a full deck here and let's just click paint with color and let's maybe paint it like a pinkish color or something so now we have our pink color and paper color we'll go to our blending options and all we're gonna do just kind of a couple different clicks we're gonna click our mode and we'll go down to hue again so we're only applying this adjustment specifically into the colors then we'll go to our ply - we'll click on the color dropper and then we'll click an area of yellow just like that so now no matter how big my brush size is it's only going to apply this adjustment into those yellows so if I just paint this on you can see it's only painting that pink on to those specific areas that I chose what the apply to menu so this is this can be incredibly helpful if you're wanting to change you know a specific hue but it's kind of in a complicated area and you don't want to mask but again you can always go in here and modify the different colors I kind of like oh I like that a lot so even with just this on our shot we've just done this so if I click Z on my keyboard now now I can add a filter we can add a dynamic contrast filter and then let's add a lot filter so now we have our let's let's say we like maybe this let's say we like these colors but we don't like how it's modifying the tones so we can go up here to our gear icon we'll go back into the blending modes and one blend mode that we can use to protect our colors and not or protect our tones is we can use the luminosity blend mode so we'll just click little manasa t and now this is only applied to limit values so now we're kind of darkening things up in our scene and then if we just wanted to apply to the color okay click color and then and that's only apply it to those color tones just kind of a few creative ways to stay a few ways to keep your editing kind of creative I'm gonna show you one more way you can use the apply to menu and this way is just make kind of colors pop out a bit so in here let's say we want to make these yellows pop out of this beautiful bird here so we'll just go to add filter I can use my color enhancer and we'll increase the saturation and then let's maybe make our yellows brighter like that or not brighter more saturated then we'll brighten them up like that so now we've obviously brightened up all the O's and our scene it looks pretty intense and rather than using a color range mask and clicking in here to what my car man asked we can just use user apply to menu again click on our color dropper drop it on yellows and now it's strictly applied to those yellow tones and again I can always selectively apply anything so I can you know use my masking brush I can remove these yellows these really bright ones from outside of our bird here but I mean you can see just the kind of the power within these these blending modes and these apply two options to really kind of fine-tune your adjustments on your shot and really just keep creative with your images okay so that's basically all I have for you guys today I know we kind of covered a lot in a short amount of time but I hope you guys learn some blending mode techniques and tools learn a little bit about the apply to you menu thanks for joining me really appreciate it again blend modes can be a little bit complicated but just kind of keep to the basics of them and you'll learn them more and more the more you use them so thanks for joining me again have a great rest of your week keep creative stay editing stay safe thanks again

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Length: 56min 4sec (3364 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020