Today I'm gonna show you how to obtain a cinematic look by color grading your images
in Lightroom and we are starting right now.
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Ok, so first of all, what is color grading?
According to Wikipedia "Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the
color of a motion picture, video image, or still image".
So basically you add complementary colors into the shadows, midtones and the highlights of
your image.
Let's see how we can do this in Lightroom.
I opened up this very cool image with an athlete preparing to make a deadlift exercise.
When making a color grading try to adjust the photo to have a low contrast, because
this will give you a better control on the details.
And question of the day guys: when are you adjusting your contrast? before starting to
take photos or in post production?
Leave your comments below.
So I will start here by adjusting the temperature of this image, I'm trying to find a neutral
look for the white balance and I think that a negative 4 or 5 will be a good choice for
the moment.
Next I will try to bring back some details here in the windows area, so I'm pushing
the Highlights slider to the left.
I will move down to the Split toning Area now.
This is the place where I can add specific colors for the shadows and highlights.
But I will need to choose colors which are complementing each other.
I have a lot of r ed in my image, in the bricks and her skin.
The complementary colors could be Red with Green, Blue with Orange and so on, you can
check out this website called Adobe Color CC, I drop you a link in the description,
where you can choose here "Complementary Colors" and then… have some fun by choosing
the perfect tones for your image.
In my case, because I have a predominant Red color in the photo, I will use Red for the
shadows and a light Green for the highlights.
So let's get back into Lightroom now and choose that Greenish color.
It's not too dark… this is for the highlights.
And for the shadows I will choose a light red also.
If the saturation doesn't feel so right, you can adjust the sliders like I do now by
setting a new value because remember, you don't need to over due the color grading.
The final look should be very soft, very delicate.
I can also use this balance slider if I want to push this toning more to the green part
so I will set it to 20.
Let's choose some values in the Camera Calibration Tab.
I want to cool down the dark floor and the shadows so I'm gonna grab the Blue Primary
Hue slider, drag it to the left to .. let's say -40 or so and push the saturation to the maximum.
Keep in mind that these settings cannot be the same for your image, so you'll have
to deal with these values on your own and see what works for you.
Ok, I think it's time to crop my image.
If I want that film look I need to go at least with a 16:9 ratio, so I'm gonna choose the
crop tool and from the aspect ratio I'm gonna choose 16:9.
I'm gonna try to respect the rule of thirds and keep her face on this line, making sure
also to have a point of interest somewhere near this line, in my case the lifting bar.
I will add some contrast to the image, something like that.
And now I will come down to the Tone Curve and on the RGB channel, I create a point here
in the shadows area.
Then I start pushing this point upwards to create this very popular matte effect by crushing the blacks.
I think I can increase the exposure just a bit to a 0.5 for example.
So let's have a look at a before and after.
You can hit the backslash on the keyboard to switch between the before and after and you can also press
on this icon right here to have the before and after side by side.
This way you can see the huge difference between the original and the edited version.
It looks awesome!
So, If you have friends who don't know how to color grade images using Lightroom, share
this tutorial with them and subscribe for more well explained tutorials.
I'm Criss, thanks for watching and catch you in the next one.


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