Another Color Correction
Yes, another color correction tutorial, but this time for regular folks (with regular skin, not like Voldy!!11!!!shiftone!!1!!). Features the ever-lovely-and-growing-lovelier Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.
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This DOES feature Selective Coloring and Variations, but both are unnecessary. The rest of the tutorial is entirely translatable, kthxbai.
1. Okays, take-a your Uberly Blue icon over here. Pow.
I love Hermione's little devious smirk here. :D
Now, most strange children would use Auto Levels and Auto Color and Auto Contrast and all that crap. Well, screw the automatic stuff. Us smart people know only to use those in extreme situations where you can tell all of your information about Color Balance and Levels and Curves has washed off in the shower.
2. Make a new Color Balance adjustment layer. What did we learn last class, children? That's right: COLOR BALANCE IS A GOD.
Midtones: +49 -5 -47
Highlights: +16 0 -16
Hermy-own-nee looks at least a tad better.
3. Now, we make a Curves layer. Curves is a layer made entirely of extremes, which makes it good for my Sooper Seekrit Purpose! >DDD
To educate you idiots, of course. Neways.
We really want to only brighten up this dark grayish cap. So we go to RGB.
Point 1:
Input - 96
Output: 146
Point 2:
Input - 80
Output - 118
Lookin' good there, Hermy. Yep yep.
4. THIS PART IS UNNECESSARY STOP. YOU DON'T NEED TO PUT IT IN UNLESS YOU WANT TO STOP. Moving out of telegram-speak, this part involved Selective Coloring, which used to my enemy back in the day when I used PSP. So you really don't need to use it.
As I am very very lazy, I'm just, like, going to put in uneven images instead of typing out what you need to do.
YAY selective coloring. =DDD
5. Now, this is the coo' part. Hit ctrl-A, go to 'Edit', click on 'Copy Merged'... AND PASTE IT AS A NEW LAYER! w00t and all of that! Neways, this is the Variations part, which is ALSO UNNECESSARY, so y'alls can just, like, skip it or whatever. 'Cause it's all redundant and pointless.
Variations:
c'est finis!
have fun and show me what you got.
>>
This DOES feature Selective Coloring and Variations, but both are unnecessary. The rest of the tutorial is entirely translatable, kthxbai.
1. Okays, take-a your Uberly Blue icon over here. Pow.
I love Hermione's little devious smirk here. :D
Now, most strange children would use Auto Levels and Auto Color and Auto Contrast and all that crap. Well, screw the automatic stuff. Us smart people know only to use those in extreme situations where you can tell all of your information about Color Balance and Levels and Curves has washed off in the shower.
2. Make a new Color Balance adjustment layer. What did we learn last class, children? That's right: COLOR BALANCE IS A GOD.
Midtones: +49 -5 -47
Highlights: +16 0 -16
Hermy-own-nee looks at least a tad better.
3. Now, we make a Curves layer. Curves is a layer made entirely of extremes, which makes it good for my Sooper Seekrit Purpose! >DDD
To educate you idiots, of course. Neways.
We really want to only brighten up this dark grayish cap. So we go to RGB.
Point 1:
Input - 96
Output: 146
Point 2:
Input - 80
Output - 118
Lookin' good there, Hermy. Yep yep.
4. THIS PART IS UNNECESSARY STOP. YOU DON'T NEED TO PUT IT IN UNLESS YOU WANT TO STOP. Moving out of telegram-speak, this part involved Selective Coloring, which used to my enemy back in the day when I used PSP. So you really don't need to use it.
As I am very very lazy, I'm just, like, going to put in uneven images instead of typing out what you need to do.
YAY selective coloring. =DDD
5. Now, this is the coo' part. Hit ctrl-A, go to 'Edit', click on 'Copy Merged'... AND PASTE IT AS A NEW LAYER! w00t and all of that! Neways, this is the Variations part, which is ALSO UNNECESSARY, so y'alls can just, like, skip it or whatever. 'Cause it's all redundant and pointless.
Variations:
- set fine - coarse to the first graduation nearest 'fine'
- click 'more yellow' once
- click 'lighter' once
- set fine - coarse all the way over to 'fine'
- click 'more red' once
- click 'more blue' once
- move from 'midtones' to 'shadows'
- click 'more red' twice
- click 'more cyan' once
- move from 'shadows' to 'highlights'
- click 'more magenta' once
- click 'more green' once
- click 'more yellow' once
- move from 'highlights' to 'saturation'
- click on 'more saturation' twice
c'est finis!
have fun and show me what you got.