I love it! Curves are both incredibly confusing and powerful. Practice will always help overcome the confusing part, and you can always benefit from its power :) Of course, I'm preaching to the choir here, you know this :)
I've avoided the colour curves for a long time . The last year or so I've been trying to understand and use it more, so thanks for your information. As usual very useful. 🐯
I have only just started venturing in to experimenting with the color curves thanks to your courses on f64 Academy and this was a great comparative lesson with the HSL. Still early days for me and the color curves, but it certainly has a lot of power - thank-you for sharing!
I originally learned to edit color with Curves. Then when I started watching these things on RU-vid, everyone was using HSL (which at the time I had no familiarity with). So it's nice to see the same exercise compared.
Glad I could help! HSL can work, but not in every scenario. Sometimes we need a tool that changes the tonal color, not just the color of the color. If that makes sense, haha
To make it exact, you could set your histogram to display Lab mode, drop a color picker on the stone outside of your "pasted" part of the image, drop a color picker on the stone on your pasted part of the image, and move the color curves so the Lab value of the color pickers match.
That's certainly one way. This is more a test for people to get good at noticing color for themselves. This practice can teach someone to see colors very well. Subtle hints of every color become more noticeable the better trained you are. But yes, that is an option. There are hundreds of ways to do everything in PS. Not to mention auto blend layers which will do it for you 😂 but I didn't mention that... On purpose 😂
@@f64Academy I appreciate you doing that, Blake. To someone who has not gone through art school it's difficult to see colors or worse yet components of colors. You are teaching me a lot in that regard when you say "Maybe we need more yellow in the blues". I used to think blue was blue and yellow is yellow but now I'm learning it's not that cut and dried so thanks!
If you have a lot of time on your hands this is a good idea. If you haven't you can get the same result by selecting then duplicating the object, then flipping it horizontal. Or use auto blend layers.
For sure! But then how would one learn the fundamentals of color matching? :) Sometimes the magic tricks are great and highly effective, but when they don't work we sit there and scratch our heads. This was an attempt to show that manual color matching can be done with Curves and Selective Color :)
Blake, great as usual. I'm curious, however, would it work and thereby be simpler, if you just sample the color in the area around the target and put a color layer clipped to the target using the color blend mode? Maybe tweak the opacity some - would that work?
It could very well work. But, the practice is to see how to color match with tools in PS that don't do things automatically. Blend Layers could very well work, but what happens when it doesn't? Having this kind of knowledge will help you with so many tasks where auto blend layers fails.
