Today I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily match color in Photoshop
hey guys and welcome to another Photoshop tutorial this is Rabii from Retutstudio.com
and in this video I'm going to give you two different techniques that will help you match
color fast
So here we are in Photoshop and we have two images that we need to match their color together
And as you can see that our background is warm and our subject has he cool contrast
and we need to match the color in this case I want to match the subject to the background
So what I'm going to do is create a curves adjustment layer on top of our subject, Then
I'm going to hold alt or option and click between the two layers to create a clipping
mask, You can also create a clipping mask by clicking on this icon in the properties
panel
And what this does is the curves adjustment layer is now only affecting our subject and
not the background, I'm going to click on this icon to reset curves
Now what we need to do is click on this menu in the curves properties panel and then select
auto options, This will bring us the auto correction options dialog box, And it has
four different algorithms that we can use the auto color correct images
If I select find dark and light colors and then click on Shadows and sample a color from
the shadows in our image, You can see that it sampled a white color, why is that this
is not what we want, That's because our layer mask is selected, So make sure that the layer
itself is selected you can see now it is highlighted when I clicked on it
And now we can do that again and Select Auto Options, And I'm going to choose enhance per
Channel contrast, I'm going to click on Shadows and then sample a color from the shadows in
our image, You can see that photoshop automatically applied that color to the shadows of our subject,
I'm going to click okay and I'm going to click on highlights and then sample a color from
the Highlight area on our in image, In this case I'm going to select this bright orange
color near the Sun, And now that color is applied to the highlights in our subject,
Click okay and then click okay again and now photoshop Will ask you If you want to make
this color as the default highlight and shadows colors for curves, In this case we don't want
that we only want to apply this color once so I'm going to select no
And now as you can see our subject is matching the background, that looks a lot better than
before, but if the adjustment for you was not looking the way you want it you can always
go back to the auto correction options by holding alt or option and clicking on this
auto button, And you can go back and edit the colors to your liking
And if it's still not matching and doesn't look right it's probably a Luminosity problem,
So if that is the case I'm going to show you how to fix that, so to figure out if it's
a Luminosity problem we need to see the image in black and white by creating a check layer
and it could be as simple as creating a black and white adjustment layer
Or we can create a solid color, And then choose a neutral color it doesn't matter white black
or 50% grade, You want to make sure it's neutral and you can tell By looking at the Hue and
saturation values over here and you can see both of them are zero,
And they stay at zero even when I'm moving the color picker up and down, But when I move
it to the right you can see that the saturation value has changed, So make sure it is neutral
and then click okay,
And now what you need to do is change the blending mode to color, And that will convert
our image to black-and-white, And this is actually more accurate than a normal black
and white adjustment layer,
You can see when I turn it on and off there's no change but if I turn the black and white
adjustment layer on and off it is affecting the Luminosity values
But we can still make the black and white Adjustment layer more accurate by changing
its blending mode to color and now it's only affecting color
This is another way of doing it and I just wanted you to know different methods if you
want to be more accurate when you’re making your adjustment
So now we have eliminated color from our image that was Distracting us before and now we
can only look at it in black and white and ask ourselves is the subject matching the
background or not,
And in this case I can see that the subject is a little bit brighter than the background,
So I'm going to create another curves adjustment layer Then create a clipping mask and I'm
going to make the subject a little bit darker,
and by doing that you can see that it's looking much better now and matching the background,
here is the before and after
Now this Curves adjustment layer is also affecting color, but when I change the blending mode
do luminosity, Now it's only affecting luminance, also I'm going to change the blending mode
of the color balance as well to color
And now it's only affecting color, and now you can change color and luminosity accordingly
and this is a great technique if you want to work on your color and Luminosity separately,
Again this is the before and this is the after
So that's one way to match color quickly and easily, I'm going to show you now a different
technique using Color check layers, So first of all I'm going to delete the color adjustment
layer and I'm going to leave the luminosity adjustment layer and now we can only focus
on color
So to create the color check layer we're going to need to create another solid color, And
you need to drag the Color Picker to the top right corner So that the saturation and the
brightness is at hundred percent, It doesn't matter if you change the Hue slider or not
for now,
click okay and now change the blending mode to luminosity, And this will leave us With
only a color map of our image and this will help us match the color of our subject to
the background
So if your image is a little desaturated and you can’t see it clearly you can add a hue
saturation adjustment layer and crank up the saturation, And that will help us see the
image of a little bit better,
you can also go back and change the hue from the solid color, To help you see the color
map a little bit better, I'm going to stick with this blue and click okay
So now let's add a color balance adjustment layer this time and clip it to our subject,
And now looking at the image we can clearly see that the subject is not matching the background
and has a blue color contrast, So the first thing I'm going to do is to the Reduce blues
and add Yellows
We can also add a little bit of greens and reds, And you can see now how the subject
is starting to match with a background, Now let's go to shadows and not that little bit
of yellow to the Shadows a little bit of greens as well and more Red
Now the highlights and let's do the same thing, this time I'm not going to make it Extreme
changes, And now as you can see this is the before and the after, Now the color in the
subject match the background, And if I turn off all these check layers here's how it looks
like
We can also change the blending mode to color as well so it's only affecting color
Again let me show you the before and after of everything, this is the before and this
is the after,
All right that's it, these are the two techniques That what I wanted to show you today, These
techniques will help you quickly match color between two images, Especially if you're not
sure where to start to match the color
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