Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to match the color
grading of a movie to any photo and then how to save that color grading so you can apply
it to any photo you like in the future. Now, there are two methods that I'm going to show
you. One is a super quick way to do it and the other is a little more complex,
but it's a better solution. So, in this case, we have the Matrix screenshot and we're going
to apply it to this photo. The first way we can do it is to go to Image, Adjustments, and Match Color
and we get this window right here. Basically, the "Target" is this photo that we're looking
at right now and the "Source" is going to be the Matrix screenshot. It instantly applied
The Matrix color grading to our photo. We can adjust the luminance or brightness,
the color intensity, as well as fade out the color grading which shows more of our original
photo through it. I'll cancel this since I'll now show you a more accurate way to
match its color grade to our photos by picking the shadows mid-tones and highlights from the
movie's screenshot. The way to do this is to go to File, Export, and "Save for Web".
Now its default is 256 colors. We'll make it 3. One for the highlights, one for the shadows,
and one for the mid-tones. We'll make it "Perceptual" and "No dither". We'll click "Save".
We'll save it to our desktop and click "Save". Now, go to File and Open. Navigate to your desktop
and click the "Save for web" image. Then, click "Open".
All right! Now, because we saved it to the web, notice the format mode is "index". We
need to change it to RGB color. So go to Image, Mode, and RGB color.
Now open your Rectangular Marquee tool and drag over your image that includes
the shadows, highlights, and mid-tones. Now press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut it out.
Press "v" to open your move tool and drag it onto a photo that you'd like to change
its color grade to. Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down and release.
Click on your photo to make it active, click the adjustment layer icon, and click "Curves".
I'll drag it down a little bit so we can see the entire panel.
Click this icon so you see the white frame around it. By default, for some reason,
Adobe chose the layer mask to be active, but in fact to make any adjustments we need to make this
portion active. So, make sure you do that. All right. Now, there are 3 eyedropper tools here.
This represents the highlights, the mid tones, and the Shadows. Double-click the highlights icon
and click the lightest color. Then, click ok. We do not want to save the
target colors as defaults so click "No". Click on a light area of your photo,
double-click the Shadows icon, click the darkest color, click "OK", click "No",
and click a dark area of your image. Double-click the mid tones and click the mid tone of your
image. Then, click "OK", click "No", and click a mid-tone of your image and there you go! Now
you can move it around. It will in fact change the mid-tone colors. That feels about right.
I'll click the eyeball icon to hide the colors. If you want to save this curves adjustment,
click the icon at the upper right, click "Save curves" preset
and type in whatever you'd like. I'll type in "Matrix".
Then, I'll click "Save". So now, if we open another photo and we want to apply the Matrix
color grading to this, click the adjustment layer icon, click "Curves", and make sure
the Curves layer is active and not the layer mask. Open the preset list and click "Matrix"
and we now have a matrix color grading. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!