- [Glyn] Hi, I'm Glyn Dewis and in this video,
I want to show you how you can add mood
and atmosphere to your pictures, using colour
and Photoshop Look Up Tables.
Plus, at the end, I'm going to show you
a very quick and simple way that you can then save
unique looks and apply them with just one click.
Okay, so this is actually an update
to a video I showed earlier on my YouTube channel.
Showing how you can use Look Up Tables,
to add mood and atmosphere to your pictures.
Now, if we come over to the last
panel of the right hand side, you'll see here,
the top of the layers panel, I've got a group,
which I've named, LUT, which stands for,
Look Up Tables and in here, there are
various number of adjustments.
If I turn that group on and off,
you can see the change that's giving our picture.
Colour has been added to really
increase the mood and atmosphere
and that's done using a combination of
Look Up Tables and different adjustments.
I'll take you through the process of how we can use this
and then we'll show you at the end,
how you can then save those looks
and apply them with just one click.
Let me start by deleting that group.
Now, Look Up Tables are an adjustment layer in Photoshop
and they're found in the top
right hand corner of the screen.
This is 3x3 grid, I want to click on that grid
and when we do that, it opens up the properties
and we can see three menus.
Generally, I only ever use the top menu.
Let me just show you the process of how
we can change the look of our picture
using these options in the menu here.
When I open this menu up and we can see
there's a whole load of one click effects that we can apply.
I want to come down to the very, very bottom
and the recipe I'm going to create,
is starting off with this one here called, TensionGreen.
I'm going to click on that.
You can see straight away, that the look it gives,
may not be the kind of look that
you want to apply to a picture.
It may work on some, but it
certainly doesn't work on this one
and this is sometimes how people can get
turned off from using Look Up Tables,
they don't like what comes out of the bag straight away.
But remember, Look Up Table adjustments
are an adjustment layer and because
they're an adjustment layer, we then have
opacity and blend modes and many other things
available to us, to be able to change it
so it looks exactly how we want it to do.
With this one here, I'm not going to use a blend mode,
I'm only going to use opacity.
Let me just start them by reducing the opacity
of this particular adjustment here, down to maybe 30%.
I'm going to add a few more of these Look Up Table
adjustments to create the exact look that I wanted.
So, I want to come back over to the adjustments
in the top right hand corner, and click to add another.
This time again, I'll go to the top menu
and I'll come down to one here called, EdgyAmber.
We can see there, a bit too strong,
so I want to reduce the opacity of that one down to 20%.
I'm going to add another, and this time
we're going to choose one from
the top menu called, FoggyNight.
And that just tend to wash out the image,
but again, I'm just going to dial in the strength
that I want on this one, to give it
exact how I want it to look.
So, let's head on down to 10% and another,
I'll choose one here called, Crisp_Winter,
I really like the way that adds that blue in there.
I did think of actually stopping it at this point,
because I quite like that look, but
we're carry on, I'm going to reduce the opacity
on that one there down to 20% and we'll just add
a couple more adjustments here.
There's one here called, FullColors
and we'll take that one down to 20%
and then we're just go one more.
But this time, I'm going to desaturate
the image just a little bit, I'm going to do that
using a black and white, but a gradient map.
I'm going to press D on my keyboard,
to set my foreground and background colours
to the default of black and white.
Then come over to a gradient map adjustment,
click on that and straight away, out of the bag,
it gives me a really nice black and white
and this is maybe 99% of the times,
how I do my black and white adjustments.
But I'm going to use this just to reduce the saturation.
So we'll take it down to maybe around, about 20%.
Now, if I put all these adjustments together here,
let's just, we've got the upper most ones selected,
I'm going to hold down my Shift key,
and click on the very first adjustment
and I'm going to go to the fly out menu
in the top right hand corner of the layers panel
and choose, New Group from Layers,
and we'll call this, LUT.
So you can see now, when we turn this on and off,
the kind of effect that we've got
very simple, very quick.
But imagine now, if we had a whole series of pictures
we wanted to apply this look to,
we certainly don't want to have to keep repeating
this process again and again and again.
So let's not try and save this particular look,
so that we can apply it as a one-click.
First of all, I'm going to show you
how you don't do it, I'm going to show you
the wrong way, because it maybe
that later you maybe miss something out
and you're going to wonder why you're not
getting the looks you want.
This could be the reason why,
but let me show you now, how you don't do it.
In the layer stack now, we have all the layers
leading up to the retouching part here
where we've got the things like,
texture being added, the background dodging and burning
and so on and then we've also got
the adjustments we've just applied.
Now, we're going to go the File menu,
then I'm going to choose Export
and we're going to choose Colour Lookup Tables,
so we'll click on that.
The description here, we'll just call this, Ian Munro.
Because this was from a photo shoot
with my friend, Ian Munro's a photographer in Wales
and everything else I'm going to leave here the same.
Just make sure, this is my own choice here,
where it says Quality, I leave it to say, 64, High.
Then I'm going to click, Okay.
Now I need to choose where to save
this particular Look Up Table to
and I'll just for now, put it onto the desktop
but I'm going to rename this one, Wrong
because this is the wrong way of doing it.
Then I'm going to click, Save.
Now, my Look Up Table adjustment
has now been saved, so it's available to me
to apply as a one click.
So let's just rewind.
Let's just take off all these adjustments here.
Now, I'm going to go to the Look Up Table adjustment layer
on the top right hand corner and again,
I'm going to go to that top menu and open it up.
But this time, I'm going to click a second time,
where it says, Load 3D LUT and when I do that,
it's going to give me my desktop
and we can see here, the Look Up Table that
we've just saved, is now on my desktop.
So I'm going to click on that one
and then load it to apply that look, onto my picture.
But you'll probably see, it won't
give the look that we originally saved.
So, you can see now, something has definitely gone wrong.
Clearly we saved it incorrectly.
What I mean by that is, when we
save these Look Up Table adjustments,
these one click effects, there are certain layers
that we have to have on and certain layers
that we have to have off.
So now, I want to show you, the correct way of doing it.
Let me just take this picture back
to how it was when we first started.
I'll go File, and Revert.
This now takes us to the point,
where we've got all those adjustment layers
at the top of the layer stack.
Here's what we need to do to save it correctly.
I'm going to leave on all these adjustment
layers that we've just applied,
but then I'm going to go to the other layers,
in the layer stack and turn them off.
I'll take off their visibility.
The only one I'm going to leave on,
is our original background layer.
Now when we look at the layers panel,
the only layers that we have turned on and visible,
are the background layer and then,
all the adjustments that we've used
to give our picture that unique look.
Bear in mind, the adjustments that
you actually add into here to create the look,
don't just have to come from the Look Up Table
adjustments here, they can also come from
any other adjustment layers where
you can apply the looks that you want.
You could use Colour Balance, Hue and Saturation,
so on and so forth, just to create the unique look you want.
Once you've created that look,
you're then going to go to File, Export,
and we'll go back to that one here, Colour Look Up Tables.
We'll again, use the description here, of Ian Munro
because this is come from the Ian Munro photo shoot.
Quality, 64, High and click, Okay.
This time we'll save this one on our desktop,
but I'm going to call this one, Right
because it's the right way of doing it
and then we'll click, Save.
So now, let's just remove all those adjustment layers
that have given the look, we'll delete those
and we'll just turn on the visibility
of all the layers of retouching that we've done so far.
Imagine now, you've opened your picture,
you've done lots of work on it, you now want
to add that mood and look to it
and now you've got a look that
you've saved earlier, that you want to apply.
We're now going to go to our Look Up Table adjustment layer,
we go back to that top menu, we click
where it says, Load 3D LUT, that then
gives us our open dialogue where we can click
to choose the Look Up Table adjustment we want to apply.
Here's the one called, Right, I'll click Load on that one
and then Photoshop will apply that look
and you'll notice, it looks exactly how it should do.
There you go, so now you could
very quickly and easily, apply this
to many, many other images from that same photo shoot.
The only thing to remember, when you're saving
these particular, unique looks that you're creating,
make sure that the layers contain
the adjustments, are visible, every other layer,
in the layer stack is turned off,
except for the background layer.
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