so we're gonna be working today with the rent helium file I believe it is let me
check 8k file we working with an 8k and before
we start I wanna say special thank you to raw film for making this tutorial
possible in providing me access to their amazing stock footage if you guys want
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all right so here's the shot I want to make this tutorial good quality good
color grading so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna cut off my lights over here I'm
gonna be pretty much talking in the dark because the light really affecting how I
see things and let's get started I'm sitting in the
kind of a pitch-black right now and here's our file okay and I want to make
it look a little bit more like a blockbuster so I'm gonna use Avengers
and game sort of as a reference I'm not gonna be you know doing completely
ripoff but just a general look base this is what we're gonna do you know it's
gonna look very high-end so this is our eighth case shot and to make things a
little bit better I'm working in a regular 1080p timeline there is no need
by the way to upscale very much our color science IPP - dragon color gamma
red lock film so the first thing I'm gonna do is to balance the exposure
actually no the first thing I'm gonna do is to make it more cinematic just for my
own preferences and what we're gonna do we're gonna go into image scaling and
over here output scaling I'm gonna uncheck match timeline settings and what
I'm gonna do I'm gonna put 1920 by 800 and scale full-frame with crop so if I'm
gonna move this on the side and click Save boom we have native white screen so
that's really cool let me uncheck clips so you guys can see a little bit more
scene there we go boom looks great so first note let's do
a little bit balance just like that okay perfect so they're just kissing the
bottom and I'm gonna label this exposure my second note I'm gonna label this
white balance before we start I want to have white balance dial sorta for our
look a little bit so I know a little bit reference temperature that helps a lot
okay let's go to the temperature you should be doing this supposedly it gives
you a little better quality if you do it in Camera Raw
I personally don't notice anything so I'm just gonna do temperature in tint
over here so I'm gonna cool the shut down a little bit okay let's check
really quick before and after before and after so we can see already how this
change the whole move so that looks cool maybe maybe a little warmer just like
that alright that looks great next thing I want to do is basically to start
dialing my look there's no colors that kind of bug beam at the moment I think
everything in the shot is fine so this one gonna be look okay just like that
and I'm gonna go into primaries and basically I'm gonna start moving them
kinda towards green a little bit and let's see if the mid-tones
now we don't need mid-tones I'm just gonna do it with the with the wheel
alright so that kind of looks ridiculous at the moment so what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna convert this into layer node okay and with the layer node this one
underneath gonna be skin generally I always suggest
doing this kind of stuff in camera but you know sometimes you do what you have
to do so with the skin let's turn on selection go qualifier over here and
select skin okay let's stretch it out for the sake of tutorial that's alright
and basically this is where my thing comes in that you should not be doing
this in color you should be doing this on set but it looks alright so okay that
looks a little bit awkward let's compare it to
Avengers that's obviously not what I wanted but there's easy fix
so let's go to log over here and what I'm gonna do I have my scopes over here
and we can see they're kind of wacky all over the place so what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna start balancing my blacks okay and boom we can see that blacks more or less
balance and we have a very interesting look going on now however my skin still
a little bit too saturated so let me put these guys side-by-side okay I'm gonna
go into skin node and I simply gonna start decreasing saturation so something
like this
okay so now we have this shot looking altered obviously from its original
state but we're gonna continue working and improving what we see so that green
obviously too much I don't need that much so what we're gonna do with the
game I'm gonna start decreasing it so that looks perfect next one
what I want to do is to make it even more darker so I'm gonna go in a curve
we're getting everything and with the curve we can decrease it make it a
little bit more a little bit more cinematic okay not too much
okay just like this
okay check it out before and after look at the big difference we've made let me
do a full screen check it out before and after so that looks like a DSLR shot and
right away over here looks much more expensive so now what I want to do is to
bring more attention to actual characters so I'm gonna do another note
and by the way the note operation even though it's very important but because
I'm doing everything on the fly sometimes it doesn't matter as long as
you get correct result that's going to be clean so I want to point that out
that even though there is a certain proper way that I'm gonna do in a
following video maybe sometimes you got to do what you got to do and in this
case I'm gonna do I'm asked a very simple mask okay just like this nice
soft mean yet okay let's track it I have no zoom
I have no rotation but I have a little bit perspective okay so let's go in the
end tracking the mask depending on the shot
wherever you place your little slider to begin with also sometimes very important
and I will also make a video on that so now we have it I'm going to invert the
mask and basically in the primary wheels I'm just gonna make everything a little
bit darker make sure you're not doing too much make sure you're only obviously
working with the area that matters and in our case we made seem a little bit
more cozy with that now depending on the movie depending on
a situation scenario you may want to add maybe something extra so something extra
I want to do a very slight glow to the window I kind of wanted to make it looks
soft okay let's go to the glow okay just like this and nothing happens obviously
I'm gonna start bringing thresholds down okay just like that and all of a sudden
by doing that we introduced a completely different vibe into the scene now how
strong you're gonna do this how strong your effect gonna be you can always
control it into gain you can have it just a little bit to add a little accent
or you can have it a lot to make your room or whatever shot you working crazy
now his skin let's zoom in it's still a little bit hot to me let's go into my
node and I'm gonna decrease saturation even more okay so something like that
boom in here we have it we have very Hollywood like color grading within a
few minutes relatively and shot looks very expensive and blockbuster like now
we can continue adjusting things further on if we think that he looks a little
bit too pale we can pop a little more color okay like that or we can even make
skin different colorful ones but that's completely different story and different
tutorial so here we have it be sure to check them out raw film link in the
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