- All right, madams and messieurs, in this week, 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
give like 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, 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 are 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 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 complementary, 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 look 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 give 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 more brighter, a little bit more blue, and then let me crop it, 'cause it's too much of the foreground. I love Soho in New York, it's
a great place to take photos. It's got a 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 now 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 is 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 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. Maybe I'm gonna make this a bit brighter. You see, how that's
swimming just to highlights. And then we've got the
mid-tones, so the mid-tones is, is gonna influence the most the photos. So let's overdo it to see. I'm going magenta, adding
magenta sort of everywhere, orange everywhere, yellow
everywhere, green everywhere. I usually don't touch,
if I double click it, it puts it back in the middle. I usually don't touch this wheel. You could go and add
some kind of look to it. You know, like films, for example, used to have a lot of
very color cast like that. You can do that if you want, same thing, you can open a shadow- The mid-tones, you can open
the mid-tones a little bit here and voila. Now, you can also just click
here, to just do the shadows, the mid-tones or the highlights,
or you can click here and you have all three, which
is what I like to do here. And you also have this
option here, which is global. So global is gonna
change the entire photo. It's kind of like mid-tones on steroids. I never use global personally. But you can, and then you can also lower, like you can, for example,
I can add like a matrix look to everything and then I'm
like, "Oh, it's too much." And I can lower the luminance. Well, that's the same thing. It's just the overall brightness,
darkness of the photo. Again, I'm not using global. I like to go, like that. But if you want to see the
before and after of any panel in Lightroom, you can go here, before, and after. Let me show you another example. A photo I shot in New York
City, this is the raw file. And then let's go here. I'm gonna do a little bit of retouching. I'm gonna open the shadows. I'm gonna bring down the highlights a bit. Whites, black, add a bit
of contrast, exposure, white balance, yeah, maybe
it makes it a bit warmer, a bit of more magenta. And you know, I already like it, but let's take it to the
next Hollywood level, with the color grading. So here on color grading, I'm gonna go back to
the three adjustments, I'm gonna go down here, I
made my screen very big, so you could really see. So that's why I've just
scrolled that panel so much. And you know, it's a very
low resolution screen. And then I'm gonna add, so- Look at this, adding blue in
the shadow is interesting. So that's the Hollywood look. That's a different kinda look, but Hollywood sometime does
blue, like look at this, like for example, Christopher
Nolan added more blue here. Michael Bay added more green,
Game Of Thrones more green. You know this was more green, but it's always kind of a
cold color in the shadows. It's kinda the same idea. So let's go Dark Knight,
the Dark Knight Rises. So not so much, a little bit, let's do like a Dark Knight photo. And then I'm gonna, in the highlights I'm
gonna add some yellow, orange maybe and then voila, let's see the before and the after. Oh, by the way, I'm gonna show
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me show you on portrait. So this is a photo of my daughter Marine. I dressed her up like as
a vintage photographer from the twenties with like
my old four by five camera 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 in 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 like 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
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 a 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 Marine
dressed up as a cow boy. 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 warm in the shadows. It gives a little,
jenesequa to your photo. That's the color grading
tool in Lightroom, it's fun. It's kind of a one trick pony I find, but tell me, maybe you've
got a better use for it. Download my Lightroom shortcuts. It's gonna change the
way you use Lightroom and I'll see you in another video. Madams and messieurs, au revoir.
