hello my friends in today's fantastic color grading tutorial we are going to be doing a very
simple kind of blockbuster zombie apocalypse look easy with a few clicks and adjustments so it's
going to be very straightforward and very simple and basically the point of this video is just to
demonstrate that you don't always need to have 40 50 different notes in order to make something look
good and interesting so before we start i want to say special thank you to artlist and art grid
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subscription all right so let's get started here we have a very interesting shot of the doctor or
whatever engineer uh looking at some tube little t virus and i want to make this interesting it's
a really good shot but it's a little bit flat it's a little bit boring so we can actually bring it up
to a next level so i'm gonna do a new note alt s and i'm gonna call this one exposure or balance
and in this shot i'm simply going to use offset to make image slightly more rich so if we're gonna
toggle before and after we can actually see how it affected the image so if i'm gonna go to the
full screen again before and after we can see that it made really huge impact just simply like that
okay so now let's do another note and in this note we're actually going to use technique
called bleach bypass in order to sort of set the basic look of what we're doing and kind of just
lay the foundation okay very simple we're going to go here and we're gonna click monochrome and
now our image has rgb basically we have full rgb control of our image and what we can do we can do
up and down on each channel and make adjustments individually per channel so this is a very very
cool technique however you have to be very careful because once you start increasing one channel
or decreasing it you going to introduce a lot of artifacts so always remember that you cannot just
stretch it like crazy there's always consequences to pay okay so for now i'm not going to do
anything here i am simply going to make a layer node out of that alt l and as a blending mode
or compositing mode i'm going to use either overlay or soft light so let's use soft light okay
now when we're going back to our rgb channel we can actually manipulate how this whole image looks
and look how cool it affects the entire picture so we can i do a lot of adjustments simply with those
channels by splitting image like this so if i'm going to toggle again before and after we can see
a very very huge difference and you're probably going to say oh you know you're you're
you're crushing blacks and all this well here's what you do so now let's say that i'm satisfied
with how it looks i am simply going to select this right click on it and create compound
node so now if i'm gonna do opacity i can manipulate the strength of my adjustment
so for example if i don't want to have full force i can dial it down a little bit to have
whatever looks pleasing to my eye so again if i'm going to go before and after we can see that huge
difference okay so now we're going to do another node and here what we can do just start
introducing a little basic look so i'm going to dial down a little bit more on saturation
make image kind of maybe a little bit warmer and with a shadow maybe a little bit purplish there we
go so now just by a few simple adjustments we can see that we introduced a very very nice cinematic
look to the whole image so this one i'm gonna call this one color or tone or look whatever you prefer
and now we're gonna do another note and here simply i'm just going to select his um visor a
little bit it doesn't need to be perfect selection just something very nice and quick okay we're
gonna do soft and we're gonna track it back make sure you have everything selected because we have
a lot of going on here okay just like that all right looks perfect and now i can do a little kick
with the lighting because we have the main actor and obviously it's very important
and we can do a little bit play with the contrast and the pivot so again let's check it out before
and after and we can see how again doing very simple adjustment we made everything looks much
more interesting okay so i'm going to call this one visor or face and finally i just want to do
an overall kick to the image and basically make it a little bit more dimensional and how we do that
very simple just by adjusting the highlights so let me turn this on this one goes off this one
goes off and we go to our highlights let's make sure we have very nice soft selection
lots of blur okay because we don't want to give away our secret and let's just give a little
kick to our highlights okay be sure not to clip anything always pay attention to your scopes okay
let's do really quick before and after we can see that we have much more dimension going on
and again if we're gonna take a look at the full screen and do before and after there we
can see that we made a very huge difference just by simply doing few adjustments and now finally
very simple we can do a basic vignette something like that around his face we're gonna invert it
we'll bring everything kind of down a little bit make mask a little bit softer okay so now
we see that basically our vignette focusing on the actors face and this is how you do a very simple
and basic color grading without creating tons of different notes thank you so much
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