Jordy here for Cinecom.net
and for the past weeks, I've been working super hard on a brand new class
about color correction and color grading inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
And I'm very excited to announce that the class is now online on Skillshare.
If you'd like to check it out, you can click the first link in the description down below
and if you're new to Skillshare, I can give you two months completely for free
if you join through my link.
So far, the reviews have been amazing!
So, I'm really glad that people are enjoying and learning from it.
Now, this class covers all of the technical parts of Lumetri,
you'll learn about color philosophy,
advanced tricks, workflow techniques,
the scopes and so much more.
In this video, I want to highlight five quick tips from that class that you should know about.
Starting off with tip number one,
there's an input LUT option and a look option under the creative tab.
Now, they have different purposes, but essentially they do the exact same thing.
You can import a LUT from there, that's it.
However, the order is not the same.
If I would apply a hard contrast from the input LUT,
then that LUT would be applied first
and I won't be able to recover information from the level controls.
Applying this LUT in the creative tab means that the LUT comes after the level controls.
This allows me to recover anything over or underexposed.
By the way guys, do you make use of any LUT's?
Let me know in the comments down below.
I'm always curious to know which LUT's that most people use.
Anyway, step number two,
with the hue and saturation curves,
we can select a specific color or level and then change its saturation, hue or luma.
However,
these controls could also break your image easily,
definitely with compressed video.
And that is why I would recommend using the HSL-secondary more,
because with that tool,
after you've made a selection,
you have two controls on the bottom to denoise and blur your selection.
And this will often give much better results
and this is also why I would only use the curves whenever I have to make a minor adjustment.
For tip number three, we'll stay inside the HSL-secondary
and try to make a key for the skintones.
This time we're going to blur the selection a lot,
and make sure that the eyes and lips are within the selection as well.
Now, having this selection allows us to add a little bit of contrast to the talent's face,
to make it pop some more, but also add sharpness.
In this way, you're out of focus background won't get extra sharpness but only your talent.
Now, normally you would use the unsharp mask for that,
but it's pretty heavy and you won't always be able to playback your footage in real time,
which is why I like this technique more.
Tip number four,
there's a color temperature slider which you can use if you need to fix a wrong white balance
or you simply like to make a shot warmer or colder.
However, this control works on the entire spectrum of your shots,
making highlights and shadows often too orange.
For minor adjustments, you can use the temperature slider.
Otherwise, I would recommend using the color wheels
and push orange into the midtones.
If needed, you can always counter by adding a little bit of blue into the shadows
and highlights to keep them natural.
Here's a side-by-side comparison using the temperature slider or the midtone color wheel.
And finally, tip number five,
there's a saturation slider, but also a vibrance slider in the creative tab.
While increasing the saturation will simply increase the intensity of all the colors,
the vibrance will increase the more desaturated colors first,
bringing them closer to the rest.
So, whenever you feel that a certain shot is not saturated enough,
yet one color like red does seem to be very saturated already,
it is best to increase the vibrance
to make the other colors like blue more vivid.
And sometimes I would even decrease the saturation,
and then increase the vivid to bring the overall saturation spectrum closer together
without clipping the colors.
And those were my five color correction tips.
If you like to learn more, then definitely go check out my color grading class on Skillshare
by clicking that first link in the description down below.
Thank you so much for watching and as always...
Stay creative!
Hi, my name is Jordy,
but for you it's gonna be
Master Artist.
I've been giving art classes for over 500 years now.
I've had people in my class such as Pablo Picasso.
This here is one of my greatest paintings,
The Omelettes With Cheese and Baguette.