- [Roberto] Hey everybody,
this is Roberto Blake at robertoblake.com
helping you create something awesome today.
So welcome to another Adobe Premiere tutorial today.
I'm gonna be showing you some basic color correction
and some simple color grading
using the Adobe Lumetri Color Panel.
So for those of you who are not familiar,
Adobe CC actually has a great feature called
the Lumetri Color Panel.
We got this in CC 2015 as an update.
If you don't see it you can actually get to it
by going to window and then selecting Lumetri Color,
it'll bring up this panel here
and there are a lot of different aspects of it
so i'll walk through them very quickly.
We have basic correction which is gonna let you
adjust your white balance, your temperature,
a lot of the settings that you way be familiar with
if you've ever edited a photo before using Adobe Lightroom.
So you'll be able to control the temperature,
the exposure, the contrast, highlights and shadows,
a lot of those simple things.
And you can see that it makes a real difference
in your image
and this is some of the basic correction stuff.
We actually have another panel called creative
which is accurately named because it allows you
to add different looks to your footage
and again, just depending on what you have going on
this could be interesting.
I'll show you how that works momentarily.
And of course we have the RGB curves.
If you've ever used Photoshop you might be familiar
with how RGB curves work.
We're gonna be walking through that
and these are your basic panels for making your own
color corrections and color grade.
There are obviously other panels
that we can get into the color wheels, i will address
but we really don't need the secondary color
and we don't need the vignetting
so let's just keep things nice and simple.
So you guys will notice here
that I have an adjustment layer.
I can go ahead and I can actually toggle this on and off
and you can see that the color changes that I applied
to it are there.
Let's go ahead and get rid of this
and I'll show you how to make an adjustment layer
from scratch so that you can edit all of your footage
and keep it consistent.
So we're gonna go over to our projects.
We're gonna go over and we're gonna create
a new adjustment layer.
You can also do this in the menu system
and I'll show you how to do that.
You can just go to file, new, and select adjustment layer.
We're gonna drag that over to our timeline
and I'm just gonna extend this to a certain portion
of our timeline.
That way I can show you guys before
and after we make our changes.
So what I wanna do is select our adjustment layer.
I wanna make sure that I'm clicking on it
and then click over to the Lumetri Panel.
So I've a lot of different options here.
One of the first things I'm gonna show you guys is
if I have the adjustment layer selected,
let's say I went to creative.
I can choose one of these looks
and I can automatically just give a new look to
this footage.
So i'm going through some of the Fuji looks right now
and you can see the impact that that's having.
Now a lot of these won't work right out of the box.
They won't be what you need.
Some of them are fantastic.
Some of them could really work here
and it just really depends on what you're trying to do
and you can modify and adjust these as needed.
So this is definitely a fast way
that you could go ahead and do it
and you could obviously just reduce the intensity
if it's too much
or you could make it more if you want.
But again, they're there as presets that you can use
and so that is a fast way to go ahead
and do your color grading if you want to.
I am personally not a fan of just going straight with this.
However, there are some that will look decent
such as this Fuji, Kodak 500D that we picked so
that's not a bad look.
But I'm gonna go ahead, i'm gonna go with none
because we're gonna create something from scratch.
I just need to show you guys that real quick
because it is a fast option for simple color grading.
Let's do some basic color correction before we do anything.
I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna zoom in here
so that we can see the whites of my friend Malcolm's eyes
here for this blog
and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to select
that with the white balance eyedropper.
So that lets me go ahead and color correct this
in terms of making sure I've accurate white balancing.
So that's adjusted the temperature
and the tint a little bit for me.
Let's say that I want more contrast here
and I wanna make this very more punchy.
I wanna make this pop.
I can go ahead and adjust the contrast, do that.
I can adjust the shadows accordingly
and move my blacks and my whites,
very similar to what I would do if I were in Adobe Lightroom
and so that's actually working out pretty well.
So I like what that has going on.
Now if I want to adjust the exposure,
that could make a huge difference
in the overall look of my footage.
I think that that might be too dark
so let's just keep it right around here.
And I think that looks really good.
Let's go to creative.
I can make this a little bit sharper
and that will take up some extra time and post processing
but I definitely think that it could be worth it.
Let's punch up the vibrance just a little bit
as well as the saturation.
You can see how that's affecting the color tones
of what we have here.
As you like that.
So I think we're gonna stick with this.
If I wanted to add even more contrast or dynamic ranges
I can use what's called an s-curve.
I can adjust the RGB curves
making something that looks very similar to an S.
You can kind of see that here.
I'm not gonna take this too far
because that will dramatically impact this
and it might make it way too harsh.
But I think that this actually looks pretty good.
If I take this off, my toggling,
you can actually see the difference that makes.
And so without it our image looks good
but it's a little flat.
This makes it pop a little bit more.
Finally we have the color wheels.
This is similar to your three way color correcter.
If we adjust this,
this will change the overall look of our image.
Right now it's centered
but what if I decide that I wanna
cool this down dramatically.
If I pull this in the shadows toward the blues
you can see how that's affecting our image.
What if I adjust the mid tones
and pull them close to a magenta?
You can see how that affects it as well.
So here's what it looks like without.
That just looks very warm, very natural.
This has a more polished film look to it
so I do kind of like that.
Then I'll make just minor adjustments
here in the highlights.
There we go.
So again, you can use that creatively
as far as the color wheels
and it can add just this nice look to your footage.
So I like what we have here.
And the beauty of this is since it's on an adjustment layer
I can toggle this on and off.
So it means that I don't have to worry about it,
not to mention that if I decide to
cut the footage anywhere,
I can cut this into separate clips
and yet at the same time
I can drag this over.
And now those clips have a consistent look to them.
So you can see that now we have a very consistent look
across all of our footage
and we've applied simple color correction
and simple color grading using the Lumetri Color Panel.
The other thing we can do
is if we go over into our effect controls
we can save this look.
We can save this as a presetting ops
called cool V3 Lumetri
and we could make whatever notes we want
just so that we understand what it is.
And now that's available as a custom effect
in our presets.
So if I type and you can see I have
a cool V2, cool V3
and so I could apply this
to any future footage that I shoot
and be able to use that look again.
So that's amazing.
So now you understand how to create your own preset.
You know how to manually use Lumetri Color
to color correct and color grade your images
and your video.
Hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial.
I know it's been a little while since I've done
a Premiere tutorial
but you can go ahead and check out more of these
in the playlist.
I have everything from basic editing
to how to add background music to your footage.
So you'll definitely wanna check that out
and other future tutorials that I'll have coming out soon.
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