Hi, welcome back to another very exciting Copycat Wednesday.
My name is Jesús Ramirez.
Thank you so much for joining me today.
I hope that you're staying healthy and safe during this lockdown.
As you probably already know, Copycat Wednesday is a new series on this channel, where I show
you how to re-create your favorite designs, images, styles in Photoshop.
Last week, we re-created the Perfume movie poster; link below if you missed that video.
And today, we'll work on re-creating the Green Moody Color Grade from the Lightroom Splash
Green.
Thanks to Johnson P.
For the suggestion.
Remember, you can also leave your suggestions for future episodes in the Comments.
Let me know what album cover, book cover, design, movie poster, or color style you would
like me to re-create.
For today's tutorial, we're going to take this photo of this beautiful dog, and use
the Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop to apply a similar color grade to the one found in
the Lightroom Splash Green.
As usual, I don't know how the original artist created the image.
I'm just showing you my take on it.
Like everything else in Photoshop, there's a lot of ways of achieving the same result.
The point of this series is to show you how I would reach that result.
Talking about the original artist, this image was created by George Rotan, and you can find
him on behance.net/georgerotan.
Okay, let's get started with today's Copycat Wednesday.
This is the image that I'm going to work with.
You can find a link to it down below in the description if you want to download it and
follow along with me.
The first step is not really important for the look that I'm going for.
But, I do want to crop the image because I'm going to upload it to Instagram after we're
done, and I already want to have a square crop.
So I'll do that now.
I'll select the Crop tool, then I'll go into the dropdown here in the Options bar and select
1 to 1 Square.
Because I want a square image, and I'm just going to size this up and place it accordingly.
And you can click-and-drag on the corner handles and crop your image, of course.
And you can click on the check mark to commit the changes.
Then, I'm going to right-click on the image and convert it into a Smart Object.
A Smart Object is a container that allows you to place one or more layers and you can
apply editor adjustments, filters, distortions, and transformations.
That means you can always make changes if you change your mind.
And the first thing that I'm going to do is go into Filter, Camera Raw Filter.
The Camera Raw Filter allows us to take total control over the brightness and the colors of this image.
And by the way, I just want to point out right now that you can follow along
with Adobe Lightroom if you like.
Adobe Lightroom was made from the color engine inside of Camera Raw, so all the sliders are
about the same.
The layout looks a little different.
So you can make the same adjustments in Lightroom if you like.
First, let's work with the brightness of the photo.
This is going to be a moody photo.
So I'm going to bring down the exposure; maybe not so much; right about here seems to be good.
At about negative 120, by the way.
The values that I give you will only work for this image.
If you have a brighter photo, then you might need to go a little darker.
If you have a darker photo, then you might need to go a little brighter.
It all depends on the image that you are working with.
Feel free to use my adjustments as a starting point.
But fine tune so that they apply to your image.
So, now that the image is a little bit darker, I'm going to apply some contrast.
Which means I want to make the darker pixels darker and the brighter pixels brighter.
So, I'll increase the contrast a little bit; maybe right about here.
And if I change my mind later, I can always come back and make adjustments.
So, I don't have to be precise right from the beginning.
Next, I'm going to darken the highlights a little bit.
Remember, we're going for a dark, moody effect.
So we need darker highlights.
But now that we've made the image darker, we lost a lot of details in the shadows.
And I can bring some of that detail back by making the shadows brighter.
So I'm going to drag the Shadows slider to the right.
And I probably have to go pretty far, since I made the image quite dark.
So maybe right about here.
Next, I'm going to increase the texture of the image.
The texture just makes texture pop, as you can see.
That's obviously way too much; I'm going to bring it down accordingly, right about maybe
26 or so in this case.
I'll also increase the clarity.
Clarity applies contrast and edge pixels.
Maybe a little more clarity than this.
Right about here.
It also makes the image stand out and pop.
Looks pretty good so far.
So, I want to keep working with the brightness of the image.
Usually I leave this step till the end, but I think it'll be beneficial if we do it now.
And I'm going to add a vignette.
But I'm not going to add the usual vignette from the Effects slider and drag to the right.
I want to have a custom vignette.
So what I'll do instead is go into the Radial Filter.
And from there, just click-and-drag on the dog.
Like so.
Then, I can reset my filter and click on Reset Local Correction Settings.
Then, here at the bottom, I got to make sure that outside is selected,
so that anything that I apply to this Radial Filter will affect the outside of the circle,
and not the inside.
And what I'll do is bring the exposure to negative 1.
And I'm also going to decrease the sharpness; might as well do that now;
I want a blurry effect outside of the image, so I'm bringing the sharpness down a little bit.
Not too much, just a bit; maybe negative 30.
And this is the before.
And this is the after.
Since I'm going to be working with color after this,
I want to make sure that I get the lighting right, and worry about the color second.
I also think that we need the bottom half of this image darker.
So, I'll select the Graduated Filter, click-and-drag up like so.
What I'll do here is double-click on the Sharpness slider to reset it.
I don't want a blurring effect in this case.
Also, the exposure is a bit too high, so I'm just going to set it to negative 5.
Basically, half of what we had before.
And I'll also reduce the shadows a little bit.
Maybe right about here?
So you can see now, how much darker our image looks.
I think this looks pretty good, and I'll continue working now with the Brush tool.
And I'm just going to make some areas darker.
Let me first reset the shadows because I don't want to make the shadows darker.
I actually want to make the highlights darker.
So I'll bring it to about negative 35, and just make certain areas of the image darker.
Like so.
And it's up to you; this is totally subjective, what's bright, what's dark.
I just want his face to be really really bright.
And obviously it's not bright yet, but we're going to get to that in a moment.
And I'm trying to make everything else as dark as I can; maybe a little bit more darkness
here on the bottom left.
Little bit on the bottom right.
And it's up to you what areas you make darker.
At this point, I think we're ready to work with the color.
And what I'm going to do is go into the Basic Color Correction panel.
And you can get there just by clicking on the Hand tool, and clicking on Basic here.
And you can see the adjustments we applied previously.
The image is looking a little too cold.
So what I'll do is I'll warm it up a little bit by dragging the Temperature slider to
the right, right about here.
And the image is looking too saturated, so I'll bring the saturation down to negative 20.
And again, you're going to have to keep fine tuning until you get the look that you're
going for.
But you can almost already see what the final effect will look like, just by the adjustments
we've made so far.
I'm going to continue adjusting the color.
But before I do that, I'm going to go into the Calibration tab.
And from here, I'm going to adjust the green primaries.
And I'm going to adjust the hue, because I want to shift the hue.
This is not really the green that I want for my final result.
So, I'll shift my hue to the right, until I get something that I'll like; maybe right
about here.
This looks like the green that I'm going for.
You can click on this icon to see the before and the after.
This will only show you the before and the after in the panel that you're on.
If you want to see the original image, you can just click on this icon, and you can see
the original on the left, and the edited on the right.
By the way, if you keep clicking on this icon, you're going to toggle through the different views.
And I only have two.
And the reason being is that I've disabled the other views that you see here.
And the way that works is you can just click on this icon, and click on Preview Preferences.
And then I only have the top one checked, and not the others.
So when I click, I just go from my working image to before and after side by side.
Those are the two that I prefer.
You may prefer another, and you can change it by checking the check boxes on this icon to you.
Click and hold, and then select Preview Preferences, and you can check all of them if you like.
And now when I click on this icon, you'll toggle between all the different views.
For me though, I just prefer having only the top one checked.
So I'll just check the top one there, press Okay, so when I toggle, I only see side by side.
So, this is looking pretty good.
I changed the hue of the green primary.
I think I also need to change the saturation.
It might be a little too saturated, so I'll bring it down just a tiny bit.
Right about here.
Next, I'm going to take even more control of the colors in this image by going into
the HSL Adjustments.
We have Hue, Saturation, and Luminance.
And the sliders below allows us to control each individual color in the component that we're on.
In this case, we're in the Hue tab.
So, if we go into the green and drag to the left, you can see how that changes the greens.
Drag to the right and you can see how that makes that adjustment.
So what I'll do first is focus on the vegetation on the green areas, and then I'll focus on
the dog second.
First, I'm going to adjust the hues here in the green.
So I'll double-click to start from scratch.
And then I'll drag this to the right.
I'm going to change it so that it pushes the greens found in the image to a darker, stronger green.
So maybe something pretty dramatic.
Maybe right about here? And I know it looks too saturated, but that's okay.
We're going to fix that in a moment.
Also, in some images, you might find that a lot of the vegetation is in the yellows.
You can try adjusting it from here as well.
But don't push it too far, because you might also affect other areas that you don't intend to.
In this case, I'm affecting the dog.
So maybe adjust the yellows just a tiny bit.
I can probably push it to as far as about maybe 30 or so.
So that's where I'll leave it.
And that adjusted some of the vegetation, as you saw there.
Here's the before, and the after.
Next, I'm going to work with Luminance.
I'll leave Saturation until the end.
That's because I really want to get a sense of how dark the image is going to be, and
then adjust the saturation accordingly.
What I'll do, actually, is make the greens brighter.
They seem a little too dark right now, so let me just increase the luminance here.
And I'll go to about 65 or so.
And that looks pretty good.
Next, I'm going to go into the Saturation and adjust the saturation accordingly.
And obviously, this is way too saturated for the effect that we're going for.
So, I'll reduce the saturation of the greens.
So in this case, maybe negative 40 seems to work great.
And now, let's work on the dog.
In terms of hue, I can adjust the oranges, and you can see that I can adjust him; maybe
I can drag the oranges to the left and make him just a little browner.
In terms of saturation, I can increase the saturation of the oranges to make him pop.
Also, I'll increase the saturation of the yellows a little bit.
He's got a little bit of yellow in him.
Like so.
And, I want to make the dog much brighter than everything else, so I'll drag the Orange
slider to the right until he pops, like you see here.
And maybe I'll make some of the yellows darker.
See brighter yellows, darker yellows; there's a lot of yellow in the image in the background,
and on his collar here, which I will fix in a moment.
But, I'm just going to make the yellows darker, so they don't really stand out too much.
Maybe right about here.
So since I mentioned the dog collar, why don't we fix that next?
So what I'll do is I'll zoom in, I'll select the Zoom tool and I'll zoom in into this area.
He's got this yellow tag.
And what I'm going to do is just select the Brush tool and reset my Local Corrections
settings and just paint, like so.
And what I'm going to do is bring the saturation down.
And notice that it made everything black and white; no saturation.
Then, I can click on Color here at the bottom, and I can select a green that matches my image.
See that? See how I'm, I can select a green? I can select any color, not just green, obviously.
But I want to select a green that more or less matches what we're working with, and
it might take you a second to find something that works.
But once you do, you can just press Okay.
Now if you're affecting other areas that you don't intend to affect, you can also scroll
down and under Range Mask, you can use maybe the Luminance section here,
and say to Photoshop, "Don't apply it on the darker colors, just
the brighter ones." Like you see here; yellow is pretty bright.
So I don't want it to apply that effect on the darker leaves.
And since that tag is a lot brighter than I want it to be, I'm just going to bring down
the highlights; maybe that'll make it darker.
If it doesn't, I can try that with the Exposure.
That's making it way, way too dark.
You're going to have to fine tune it accordingly.
Something like that should work.
Let me fit the image to screen, and see what we got.
I'm going to put the before and after.
Before, and after.
So I think that looks pretty good.
So we'll work with that.
By the way, this is also a technique that you can use in Lightroom to change the color
of an object.
It's a powerful technique that not a lot of people use.
If you want to learn how to do color replacements in Lightroom, then check out the link in the
description.
I have a tutorial that covers this technique in Lightroom.
Next, I'm going to go back into the Luminance tab and make the dog darker.
I think that he's a little too bright, so I'll drag the Oranges slider to the left.
So as you can see, by making these adjustments, I was able to make the entire image the green
that I wanted; he is popping.
And I was able to hide the yellow on his collar here.
Now, the one thing that I do have to do is I have to make him brighter, so he pops even more.
So what I'll do is I'll select the Adjustment Brush tool.
And something I haven't really talked about in this video is that I can control the size
and feather from here.
So maybe I can increase the feather so that the edges are blurrier.
And if you don't want to use the sliders, you can use the left and right bracket keys
on the keyboard to reduce your brush size.
Then, you can start painting.
Notice that I'm making him green (laughs), because the effect that we applied last was
the green effect for the dog tag.
So, what we need to do now is reset that.
So I'm going to click on this icon and reset it.
And I'm just going to go up and just brighten him up a little bit, increase the texture,
the clarity, and the sharpness.
And just paint on him like so.
So he really stands out and he pops.
And obviously, in your own image, spend a little more time fine tuning these adjustments.
In the final image that you'll see, I spent just a few more minutes adjusting it.
But you'll see that some of the details are going to look a little sharper.
When you're done, you can press Okay.
You can see the before and after by clicking on this Eye icon.
Before, and after.
Let me know what you think.
How does this color grade compare to the original?
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