Dodging and Burning to give density to the images is the final touch. HLS always! Color balance and, sometimes, Photo Filtre - I play a lot with colors :D
I have a great tip and this is not a paid pitch. Buy Blake's Palette Effects tool and videos. That will take you 90% of the way. The rest is practice, practice, practice
Great points, Blake. Especially about walking away for a while. I do that with my artwork in general. I get to the point where everything is looking awesome and I think I'm finished, then I take a break and when I come back I start seeing things I totally overlooked. Maybe a missing shadow, a highlight out of place, or color issues. As they say, the devil is in the details and after so long your brain starts overlooking those details, but those details can make or break your work.
No doubt you’re the “Color Maestro”. I have learned more about color theory from you in the past 18 months than in all the other books & videos I’ve seen in the last 45 years. I think I will start referring to you as “Professor C” !
Thank you. You're the best RU-vid teacher in my opinion. Will buy some f64 Academy gear soon to show my support for you and your channel. Plus I like the color and your logo is awesome!!
Another great video Blake and a couple or so new tips I've learnt = very useful and helpful...and as mentioned in the comments below, the sunglasses analogy really works. I never thought of it that way before, but it's so true....I love the way you dive into something, trying to find answers, trying (even) to find the questions to find answers to, then piecing it all together and presenting you findings, methodology and conclusions, to us, with the hope that we can then take this and apply to our own work, digest it, thoroughly understand it and maybe even expand upon it ourselves..yes, you're pretty much a 'Sherlock Holmes' character in that respect, with a fresh, enthusiastic approach, which comes from a slightly left-field perspective and is so much more fun, interesting, entertaining and genuinely useful, and transferable to ones own work and projects, than the majority of Ps 'musings and tutorials' you see on here....Great stuff!...
Thank you so much! You have me pegged 😁 that's exactly how I operate! I really appreciate your kind and thoughtful feedback. It keeps me energized to keep on going!
Excelente, as always! I'm struggling here exactly with this issue - trying to give life to a lifeless very old illustrations. I'm very conscious about color theory (I wrote a book about it), but we often seem to forget what we know - haha! 'Walk away for some time': priceless! Thank you (again and again) for this video Blake and all the tips and knowledge you always gives us with such great energy and good vibes :)
Salvador Dali the painter, said in one of his books he used a special colored shell that he used as his reference to keep on track with his colors. He said it more or less was his way of gauging his colors. So some walk away, others use devices to keep their color balance.
Great video! Only just discovered your channel but found it really valuable. Is there a way of bringing up the colour wheel to see the harmonies and what's actually being used in the image? Like you did in the bottom left of the screen?
Thanks so much! I actually don't know what I'm doing with audio, haha. I have a yeti x that has preamp software, I use one of their presets and just roll with it with some mild OBS audio filters that I googled. I'm glad it sounds good though, because I have no idea what I'm doing with audio.
Very nice, I thought you might have done this in camera raw. But I guess you could start there and then do added adjustments or either one. Enjoy your videos.
Thank you, Blake. All your videos are super useful! I have a question about the second advice. Is there a way to check the distribution of colors in an image on the color wheel?
Blake in your tutorials you stress to start your editing process in Basic followed by calibration and then colour mixer. My question to you is is selective colour a better option than colour mixer? What are your thoughts
Selective color is in Photoshop, not in ACR. In a raw workflow you'd use color mixer to get the colors looking as best you can. Then in ps use selective color to modify and refine them further.
Hi Blake: This was a very informative video. I don't have an artistic background so understanding Colour Theory and Colour Grading has been a challenge for me. I can relate to your use of the sliders to 'nuke' the colours so this will be very helpful. With more practice, I hope to get more comfortable with this entire concept. Regards, Keith P.S. I am a Canadian so we spell colour with a 'u'. L.O.L.
Meh, sometimes, but not as much as I used to. I think once you get really good in Ps (you can do just about anything with the tools) and you are in touch with your vision for the piece, it gets easier and you do that less and less.
Very often, yes. I have two light setups, full brightness like normal lighting, and RU-vid lighting. I often find myself working in the RU-vid lighting, it's not as blurple as it looks on camera. That's a white balance trick mixed with the colored lights.
