I start with the color buttons in palette effects 3 experimenting until I find something I like. Then the gradients in PE, if none work I will mess around with the randomize function in gradient map. These tools help me find what works for the specific image then I tweak the controls, blend modes, and masks. After a day or two I check to see if I still like the color, usually have to tweak more.
It depends on the situation. I experiment on my images using Selective Color, your Gradients or the Grading Palette contained in your Palette Effects 3 panel, and more recently, the Average Blur Filter in Photoshop to identify the average color in my image and applying that color or the inverse to the image using Blend Modes such as Linear Light or Soft Light.
Blake, there is NO one out there that works better at Photoshop than you do. I've learned more about colors from you than anyone. Absolutely fantastic work! I use gradient map as of now. I'm for sure going to try this out. 😁
Spot on! I love that you are combining techniques. I was half tempted to show how to do that, but I didn't want to convolute the simplicity of the technique. So it makes me very happy that you are experimenting with what you are learning!
Another one of your awesome experiments. I love your linear light recommendations too and have your actions installed in your action panel for easy access. I use those actions all the time now. Great way to start my day with a hot cup of coffee and your inspiring video. Thanks so much, Blake.
Hello and thank you so much for this awesome tutorial. I have just tried this method and it really DOES work... with some very interesting results. I also took it a little further and tried 'linear light' blend mode set very low (somewhere between 15 and 25 and of course using flow rather than opacity, remembering what you said in another recent tutorial) with the HSL sliders in various combinations... and oh wow!! :)
Absolutely! Any of your contrast blend modes work great with this technique..although linear light is less v focused on the input color and more focused on its tonal effect. I prefer soft light for the way it lays the color on.
This is fantastic stuff! Thank you!! Using this technique with multiple HSL layers mixed with luminosity masks allows even more targeted control of color than the color grading tools in LR and ACR. This is great man!! Thanks!
Great color grading method Blake and so easy to do. I took it a step further and used TK7 luminosity masks, so I can split tone the ‘lights’ and ‘darks’ in my images using your method. Keep up the good work.
Awesome! You also answered a question I have been thinking about..how to find the complimentary color of a given color..add 180! Brilliant! Going to give it a go!
This is a lot of fun! What's interesting is that the hotter an object is, the bluer it glows. So blue in reality is much hotter than red. Counter-intuitive, but true. When you start heating iron, it first becomes red, and as you increase the temperature, it turns orange, then yellow. The sun glows white, and stars much hotter than our sun glow blue. That's why higher Kelvin temperatures are bluer. But we live in a world where even fire is considered hot, and the sky is a big blue filter, which makes snow and everything after sunset blue. So we perceive it the opposite way, blue seems cold to us, and red is hot. Also our rooms are warm and we use orange lights, so we think it's nice and cozy, and the blue, dark night is cold. But it's really a trick that nature plays on us due to the biggest blue filter on the planet. Because in space, anything hotter than our sun is bluer, and anything colder is more red.
So my wife is totally blue! Another Way I can torment my kids 😂🤣 when they something is hot, I say not as hot as your Mom! They blush, she blushes, and I giggle!
Great point! There is a follow up too this video that shows an even better way than Luminosity Masks using Blend If for crazy control. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oG5efNaDFJk.html
Hey Blake! I use HSL a lot. But never did the way you show in this video with the colorize and soft light. And it seems to be an interesting approach! What I do is to use the 'hand' to pick a specific color and play around with the sliders and all blending modes to see which one is the best. I'll certainly try your recipe. Seems to be easier indeed. Best wishes to you :)
adding 180 (as in degrees) doesn't work exactly for hue which is 0 to 255 (not 0 to 360), you could add 128 instead of 180, but I know what you were trying to say... Thanks, this is a good technique.
Yes, but more control with sliders. Think of it like this, it gives you more finite control instead of opening a large color picker and feeling clueless 😁 that happens to me all the time! It basically takes all the color picker radio dials and puts them into sliders that are a little faster to manipulate.
I want you to try it on your own images, thats where you learn the best.. Watch the content then put it into practical application. I'm already giving you the knowledge for free, but somehow that's not enough? Now you need the images? Please experiment on your own images thats the only way you are going to learn.
