- [Denny] In this tutorial, you'll learn how to
create your own surreal nighttime color grading
from scratch.
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- With this one simple technique,
you can create an unlimited amount
of effects.
I'll be using the desktop version of Lightroom CC,
or you can also follow along using
Lightroom CC for a phone or a tablet,
Lightroom Classic CC, or Photoshop via the
camera raw filter.
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First, we're gonna switch the hue towards two colors.
In the color section,
click on the mixer button.
This tool let's you shift your colors.
Start by picking two colors.
I'll pick cyan and magenta.
We're going to shift everything towards those two colors.
I'll start with my first color, cyan.
Select a color besides cyan, and move the hue
of those colors toward cyan.
For blue, I will shift the hue toward the left.
For green and yellow,
I'll shift those hues towards the right.
Next, I will shift the rest of the colors
towards magenta.
For purple, I will drag it all the way
towards the right.
And then towards the left for red and orange.
So depending on your photo,
you might have more of one color
than the other.
To change your balance between these two colors,
you can use the white balance slider.
Here's what the image looks like so far.
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Next, we're going to use the RGB tone curves
to tint the shadows and highlights.
In the light section, click on the tone curve button.
Now if you're not familiar with the tone curves,
you can watch my tutorial on the
tone chart technique.
That tutorial will help you understand how it works.
You can find the link to that tutorial
in the video description below.
But for now, just follow along.
I want to give my photo a purple tint,
so to do so, I'll go to the green channel,
and drag the top right point downwards.
This will tint the highlights purple.
By the way, if you don't see this gradient background,
just imagine it. It's currently
only available in Lightroom CC.
If you're using Lightroom Classic CC,
or Photoshop, you won't see it.
My best advice is to memorize this background
and imagine it whenever you're using the
RGB tone curve.
To tint the shadows purple,
I'll go to the blue channel,
and lift the bottom left point.
To get purple, I need to combine blue with red.
So, I'll go to the red channel and drag
the bottom left point upwards as well
until I get the purple that I like.
Go back into your channels and fine-tune
the results to get the colors you like.
You can also experiment with different
color combinations.
Or if you're not that familiar
with the tone curves, don't add any points,
just keep it simple and stick to these straight lines
with two points.
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We're done!
Her's what our photo looks like before,
and after.
There's a lot of color combinations
that you can use, so play around
and see what you can get.
If you need some inspiration,
check out Masashi_Wakui on Instagram.
He has a lot of amazing photos with a similar
post processing style.
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By the way, if you're looking for a new way
to post process your photos,
check out my Night Shift presets at Voxcolor.com.
They give your photos really cool effects
that are made specifically for nighttime cityscapes.
There are three presets that you can download for free.
They are natively compatible
with Lightroom Mobile,
so you can edit wherever you are,
on your phone, on your tablet,
even on your browser, and you get
access to the built-in opacity slider,
so if you need something that's lighter or stronger,
you have full control over that.
If you like it, and want more,
upgrade to the pro version, or the studio version.
If you do, thank you so much.
It helps out a lot and I'm very grateful
for your support.
The pro version will give you 12 Lightroom presets
that you can choose from.
The best one is the studio version,
and that will give you 14 Lightroom presets,
and you'll also lots that you can use
in other software like Premier After Effects,
Affinity Photo, and more.
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Hey, thanks for watching.
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First of all, thank you guys so much
for helping us reach over 24,000 subscribers.
That's amazing, and I really appreciate your support.
As usual, if you have any requests,
just let me know in the comments below.
For this tutorial, we kept everything very simple.
And now that people are editing on their phone,
they're shooting videos and they want to
post process their videos,
I just want to show you that it's still possible
to get these really crazy color gradings
using very few adjustments.
Anyways, hope you guys have a great day.
Let me know what you think in the comments below,
and I'll see you in the next one.