Thanks Blake, another great tutorial. Knowing when to best use each blend mode will really help fine control of editing my landscapes. Lots of practice ahead. Appreciate all your work! Neale
That was a better and understanding video of Blending Mode as I relearn my past Thank you for all you have inspire many professional photographers and younger learning the way of photography.
Great stuff, Blake, as always. Thanks to your clear explanation and demos, I'm not only learning what the -- to me -- more esoteric blend modes do, but also beginning to see how I can make use of them. Looks like I will be changing the ratio of Lightroom:Photoshop work back in favor of Photoshop!
Excellent job, Blake. Conceptually difficult to understand initially, but your explanation and demonstrations really make it clear. Greetings from a neighbor to the south in Springfield, MO.
Very useful video and clearly explained. As you say, often you want to adjust your tone curve to only affect luminosity without changing the base colour. In LR that isn't possible, as you brighten or darken your overall image in tone curve by default you inadvertently end up adjusting colour too. This method is excellent, I'll definately be adding it to my future post editing, thanks 😃
Awesome! I am glad you pulled that from the tutorial. In most cases, I will not use a tone curve in any program that does not allow me to separate the color and luminance values with blend modes. As you have discovered, sometimes you only want one or the other and both can be to your images detriment.
By adding a funky gradient map and changing the blend mode to Color -and for even more control, press Ctrl+Alt+2 for a luminosity mask just before doing that, and you basically have Topaz ReStyle (a program that Ben Kenobi may describe as being "too clumsy and random"), except now with all the fine Blending and masking controls that Photoshop provides.
I sometimes use the color blend mode to paint flesh tone to even skin but sometimes it doesn't work and the color will not show up. I've never been able to figure out why it works sometimes and not others.
Hello again Enjoying your videos Especially using captions and being able to pause and think over your work This is only a suggestion for your slower pupils From another video and it could be so helpful for me As a choice from you More. ..then transcript I would then be able to download transcript and save to My notes on the iPad and refer back Now I pause...copy and write down your explanation... Thank you if you can....
That would be awesome, however, it would require a LOT of work on my part. I once wrote a tutorial in full PDF form on a very advanced topic. It took 12 hours to write it with pictures and descriptions. I turned around and recorded a video in 12 minutes. Just some perspective. With me putting out a new tutorial (sometimes two) every week, I just dont have the time to dedicate to the PDF without hiring someone for it. Then I'd have to charge for it to compensate for the hiring of another person to do the transcript and it would defeat the purpose of a free video, haha.
That is very true, he did indeed! I am madly in love with the selective color adjustment. For me, nothing can compete. Isn't it, in its essence, an adjustment, which separates the color and lightness values on a per color basis?
Selective Color is awesome and it does work on a per color basis. Pretty magical! If it had a Saturation slider in there it would be paramount and would almost be no need for HSL anymore. However, HSL is a pretty darn powerful tool also. The two combined make for unbelievable color modifications.
Think of it this way. The Color Blend mode strips the selected adjustment layer of the tonal modifications and only applies the colors. The Luminosity Blend Mode removes the color from the selected adjustment layer and only applies its tonal effects.
hai, please provide the link of image your using in tutorials so that we can practice on same image. and your subscriber understand well by practicing on Same image.
Isn't the answer already in the name? As long as you know what the difference between luminance and color is. And that fact that darkening the lumi. Usually Colors get more saturated.
Kind of but not really. When set to Luminosity it does not saturate your colors. It allows only the luminance values to be affected, not the colors. When set to color the color is applied but the underlying tones are protected.
Not necessarily. It all depends. I don't need to go into lab, I haven't for years. The RGB workflow, for me, has gotten so good I find myself there less and less. But to each their own!!! (Three exclamation points to match emphasis) 🤣
