Simple COLOR GRADE Trick To Make Your Photo "Pop" (Look MORE 3D!) 

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This tutorial is better than those that simply show you what to do, because the reasoning behind every edit is being explained, so people can apply the skill quicker to their work. Great tutorial.

The pop up visuals to accompany what you are saying, were just perfect! You speak clearly and at a good pace, everything is so clear cut, I couldn't imagine a better tutorial formula. Thank you for this, you've been a great help!!

Justin - a brilliant follow-along tut. Thanks for keeping it sectioned out. Nice work and great presenting.

Fantastic! Very helpful pro tips, definitely will put them to use going forward. Thanks!

Wow. Great tutorial! Really comprehensive with no fluff and easy to follow. Thanks Justin!

Subject seperation is well explained in here. I do it alot more subtly though. Because I went to extreme many times and subject looked like it was cropped and pasted from another photo. Most of the times I dont even use all 4 methods together. But I try to do so.

Great tuto. Good job. Also, you providing the original image so we can try to make our own edit and compare with yours is AMAZING. Seriously, good good job.

I love it! I have seen this video a lot of times and Im still learning something new every single time!

Great to the point techniques. Beautiful subject, well imaged thanks for sharing.

You can give groups masks too, so instead having three different layers with same mask, put the layers in group and give that group the mask! Gives the perk to use (different) mask on the layers in case you want to tweak them somehow.

This is an amazing tutorial, you covered so much... I'm not sure I'd call it simple but it's incredibly informative.. Thank you..

Great job Justin! I like how you get right to it...as someone said below no fluff!

Excellent! Simple, clear and to the point.

It's amazing how I can understand everything and translate it to lightroom as well. I am a newbie in photography by the way. Great video!

Justin, you make me believe in the generosity of tutorials again ^^ thank you for doing this

as an editor for 6 years I have not learned this tip by selecting only the subject to pop out. Thanks Justin, also for the beautiful photos

That wasn’t very simple bro

Great video, man! Detailed and very well explained. 👌🏻

Hi Justin! Great video, most probably the best about the subject. Simple and it works! Thank You! Cheers

Excellent tutorial. Followed it along with an image of my own regardless of how inappropriate it turned out to be in the end. The point was to become familiar with the techniques involved in the whole process outlined in your video. Thank you.

Hands down THE best Photoshop tutorial I have watched this year, you packed a lot of tips into just a few minutes, thank you!

Pretty high quality tutorial in less than 10 minutes and a pretty impressive result (she obviously looked stunning even before the edit).

Super helpful Justin, used it today on an event I shot...huge difference in images, thank you.

Flash/strobe could help get most of this done in camera. You trade set up time for editing time though. Really cool to see you take those principals of dual exposure and recreate it with layer masks in Lightroom. It’s almost as if the model was exposed with an off camera flash and the background was ambient in the final product.

Great video! First-time watching one of your Photoshop videos. Definitely helpful. Will subscribe for more:)

This is by far the best explaining tutorial ever! you got a new subscriber!

Wow super helpful video thank you Justin! Really appricated the side visuals, helped me follow along much better!

This can be done in LR. Simple subject select in the masking tool. Like Justin, first select the subject, invert, darken the background and decrease clarity/sharpness. Then select the subject in a second mask, and tweak as desired.....usually upping exposure a tad, add some vibrance, contrast, and whatever else to your taste. BOOM! Done in a couple minutes, tops.

This is very helpful! I love the “3D/pop” look. I am new to Photoshop and Lightroom but decided to start with learning Lightroom first as it seemed slightly less confusing. Can these exact same steps be used in Lightroom?

Wow, really great video. Short and easy to follow with good underlying structure. Thank you!

im just beginning to learn about colour correction etc, so although a good bit went over my head i'm starting to understand some of what your speaking about. You have a really good teaching style, thanks.

Gotta love when you keep repeating the shortcuts! It's really important to get shortcuts to people workflows

Justin, please consider repeating this edit with only Lightroom. I am curious whether the new subject masking in Lightroom would allow an even simpler edit to the subject/background with similar impressive results.

One of the underrated RU-vid Channel. Man you deserve more

There's one other trick you can use to make the model pop. You actually did half of it by warming her up a bit. The other half would be cooling down the background by adding blue/cyan. The eye sees warm colors as closer than cool colors. Years ago I had a photo taken in a mall of a carousel painted in yellows, oranges and reds and in the background was an exit to outside. The light coming in from that was blue by comparison. The slide looked like it was shot in 3D.

really great explanation of the different concepts of color and how to draw the viewers attention by using those concepts. i would have loved to see more of a non destructive approach in photoshop by not copy the layers but using the smart object more often. because after you've copied all the layers on a new layer, you can no longer adjust anything you've done before because its all fixed on this new layer.

I love how you break it down. Thank you. Excellent video.

Wow~ Great before-'n-after - thanks for these insights, I shall make use of them going forward!

Another great example on how to use photoshop to hide our limitations as photographers. You could block the light reaching the background and improve the lighting in the model to enhance contrast and pop, including a slightly orange tone to the light, then adjusting the white balance for it so the background is slightly blueish, and essentially doing everything better, in camera, with light.

Great work though as the tutorial went on it increasingly specific to this particular photo and there were too many steps to justify placing the word, "simple" in the title.

Your explanation is completely incomprehensible !!!

This is so great! It took me a couple of attempts with different photos, but I have now gotten the hang of it. Thanks so much!

Retouching is like a sport. you can't learn to ski by looking at a competition. It takes years to start participating in them. The skier watches the slope and reacts automatically to the situation. Similarly, the retoucher looks at the picture and automaticall take the tools that allow it to be changed. It is impossible to learn retouching by copying the tutorials of other retouchers. It takes many years to develop your own style. The tutorials discover the tools and therefore are worth to watching 👍

Can you provide this model image ? For practising

Just wow! So much info in one comprehensive video!!!

Great video, why haven't I seen any of your videos much earlier? Seen this one and love it, thanks for sharing.............now going to look at more of your videos. Love the model by the way, natural beauty.

great tutorial.... lot of work though...i wonder if it was lite properly in the first place how much time would be saved.

I am completely new to Photoshop. I want so much to be able to do these things, but these tutorials seem to be suited for people who already have working knowledge of the basics at least. It’s too fast for me, and I’ll get tripped up with something as simple as how to make all those layers. I tried to buy a book to learn Photoshop, but the layout of the Photoshop menu and instructions didn’t seem to match up with my program. I tried to follow other more basic tutorial videos, but they have you memorizing all these shortcuts and they click around too fast, and I can’t follow. I have no idea where to go to learn Photoshop from the beginning as a complete novice.

Hell of an edit and EXTREMELY helpful!

Great tutorial. Your subject separation chart is what really sold it for me!

I've been using Photoshop for over 15 years and it's crazy to see now how you can just press a button - Subject - and instantly get a mask. It's just so easy now (along with other tools like Content Aware Move/Fill), however I do miss the "old days" when you had to take time to make masks and things. It separated the serious artists from just anybody with a copy of Photoshop.

Thank you for sharing it. I loved the result and I’m going to apply the techniques on my pictures.

Very clear explanations. ❤️ed it. You made my editing much faster.

great job! I learnt lots of handy tips and tricks from this video, such as showing mask by clicking alt and \

This was super helpful. I always saved in JPEG and in a much higher resolution then recommended. But I never used "save for web" option. I'm really excited to try this for my next IG post. Thanks so much!!!

This is so amazing! Thank you Justin!

You are a good teacher. Easy to understand & follow. Thanks

One of the best video. Please keep creating. Love you❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love your perspective. Thanks!

Very well done. You provide very good instruction. Thank you very much Justin.

this is golden !!!!! I love this AMAZINng and she is literally so gorgeuos!

I'm brand new, it was really easy to follow and soak it all in. Thank you.😊

Heyy Justin U finally uploaded itt. Love your videos✌🏻.

Thank you for posting this, great information, well presented, and sharing the files is very helpful! Subscribed!

great video! adn very simple and to the point, thanks alot! im looking forward to my first shoot

Great tute, easy to follow with top notch results.

Very well explained, loved it 🙌

OMG, nice and well explained information, thanks a lot man, you are the best!!!

Man, you got a new subscriber. Great video. Straight forward to the point.

Such a succinct explanation and your teaching well executed, thank you!

this is so well done - experctly taught!

This is beautiful work my friend, you're and absolute hero of editing and moreover you're very handsome too. Keep up the good work and best wished from a fellow Graphics Designer.

This is deep! Would take along time for starting to learn this without any knowledge of. Whoa ....

so i have been BEGGING so many of these instagram photographers who do retouching like this to teach me...teach me and they always offer a pay wall before anything. screw em all. thank you Justin for this. this has opened up my skills in Photoshop a lot more. it was the piece i was missing. thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. also you have gained a subscriber FOR LIFE!

Congrats!!! GREAT VIDEO! Helped me out a lot!🙏

Ottimo lavoro, descrizione chiara ed esauriente, risultato eccellente!

So funny, I've been doing this technique to my photos for years! But now I'm doing it the correct way. Thank you!

Really good tutorial. I just stepped up my editing game to a new level! Thanks! I'm definitely going to checkout the Pateron content.

Just getting back into photoshop after being away since photoshop CS. Wow I have alot to learn. Awesome video

Great video both technical and presentation wise. I've Subscribed.

Hey Justin , this is a great tutorial that answers many of my questions . I downloaded the model image for practice but when i go to filter i can not find the option camera raw 14.0.1 an other question is which version of photoshop are you using ? Thank you for your great help

This video is amazing!! This is game changeing !! I subscribed to ur channel just because of this video

It just pop up again on my feed, I did use it back them,...and today I still using this Technic ,....but with the new Lr!...what it make it so so simple, but it was because of your video I discover the Technic itself . Muchas Gracias!

Precise and simple technique !! TFS

great tutorial. thank you Justin!!

A really amazing tool for separating a subject is also a wide aperture and an off camera flash

very useful, thanks a lot Justin!

Excellent tutorial! Thank you very much! 🥰🥰

I clicked the LIKE believing that it will in fact be 'Simple' :D Omg, I'm sooo new with Photoshop, i only had few lessons, but chanells like this will help for sure!

Very well explained. Could follow every step. Thanks for that.

🙌 Amazing, thank you!!!!

Enjoy watching this 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾great tips.

It completely got my attention the entire time. Very well done. Thanks, Francesca. Now I'll rewatch to pay attention to the tutorial.

Awesome tutorial by explaining each step in detail.

Thanks for sharing your tips....really appreciate it.

Quick and to the point. This tutorial will be really useful for me! Thanks for such a great job.

The best tutorial on RU-vid, thank you

Incredible tutorial, thank you!!!

Love that pop 🔥