all right YouTube in today's cool tutorial we're gonna be doing a very
interesting high-end commercial look relatively simple with a easy few steps
before we start I want to say special thank you to ruff film for providing
this clip for you guys be sure to check them out links in the description below
okay so here we have our clip from rah film to be fair it's not raw file I'm
working on right now I specifically downloaded 1080p version so technically
I don't even know what configuration of this log right now I'm looking if we're
gonna go here we can see that there's no information it's been shot on red camera
but as of right now it's a pro res file so we're kind of basically starting the
blind game I know a lot of you guys been saying that I always collar great raw
files so to be fair and now we're working with the pro res the way you can
see the concept is the same anyways so I'm gonna do a new note okay just like
this and for this one I'm gonna call this one exposure / contrast okay and
it's very simple all I have to do right now is to play with the contrast because
I really wanted to give a nice high-end commercial kind of look so we give it a
nice punch okay so I think like that looks great let's check it out before
and after really quick okay I think like that looks pretty cool now pay attention
also I'm not dropping down my blacks all the way down because we have to kind of
make a common sense out of it and if you look at the picture we can see that
there is nothing really technically a hundred percent black so there's no
reason for us to drop this kind of thing I know a lot of people make a mistake
they always drop this thing down but don't be one of those people do not drop
exposure always down okay it's not the right thing to do
so another new note and now we're gonna start introducing a little bit of look
now of course depending on how things shut and the locational that order of
operation is completely different so in this case I'm gonna start working on the
water because it's kind of overcast and relatively the water is clean and this
is a really cool thing about shooting like that
we actually have a little bit of color in the water and this is fantastic
because now we can actually do whatever we want so if I'm gonna go on the
qualifier over here and I'm gonna turn on the highlight I'm gonna click on the
water and we you can just drag it up a little bit
we basically selected all the water so I'm gonna go down a little bit because I
don't want to introduce that selection to a little beanie and the glasses so
what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna do clean black a little bit and clean white okay
something like this and I'm gonna start introducing blur radius because the
action happens so quickly at this point even if there's a little bit of noise
because it's a water and splashes and whatnot we actually can completely get
away with it so we still have a little bit of beanie let's do more more black
just like that okay and now we have a very nice clean selection so I'm gonna
get out of there and I'm gonna start introducing saturation okay so we have a
very nice saturated water and now what I'm gonna do just what a hue I can
completely change how it looks so I kind of want to do a little bit sort of teal
let's check it out before and after before we had a little bit green now
it's a little bit teal I think it looks a little bit more pleasant to our eyes
like that however it's absolutely your decision
you can make it blue you can make it green it's completely up to you there in
this case green and blue working very well together so there is no right or
wrong in this case okay so here we have it what happens now I'm gonna do another
note and now just to save my time on
selecting things I'm gonna connect this little blue to arrow and if we're gonna
go back we have exactly the same selection so what we can do now is to go
in a key and we can reverse it okay so it's a very cool trick that you can do
that way you can save a little bit I'm that way don't have to pick things
again and you know whatever the client sitting in the back would not so it's a
really cool technique to use anyways so now we're basically working on the skin
okay so with the skin what I'm gonna do well the first thing I want to do I want
to give it a little bit of pop so again I'm gonna do a little bit of contrast
okay and with the pivot I'm gonna go a little bit down because I don't want to
go too much and I wanted to look too crazy okay so just like that is okay and
what we can do now if we want we can introduce a little bit more contrast or
we can actually minimize the contrast so let me do a point here and by the way
there's multiple ways of doing this and I'm gonna do a point here and basically
by dragging this down we can control how much contrast we'll want if we want to
introduce we'll go up if you want to minimize will go down so let's see I
kind of want to do a little bit let's see something something like this a
thing looks cool let's check it out before and after so now we start getting
a very overall nice image look at that it looks like a high-end commercial now
let's go again before and after okay so that's pretty cool another thing what we
can do and it's relatively very simple trick but in a shots like that it works
very very well so let's go into window and select a little circular little
window over here like this okay let's inverse this and introduce a little bit
of vignette ago to a swimmer now I wanted to do a little bit aggressive in
this case so something like that a nice vignette that way nobody can tell
so let's see really quick before and after and as we can see we'll start
getting that very high-end looking commercial it's very simple relatively I
mean we're only doing like very basic steps so what I'm gonna do now is we're
gonna do a very interesting technique we're gonna call this one bleach bypass
okay and with this one I'm gonna go over here into RGB mixer I'm gonna select
monochrome and then monochrome I'm gonna adjust my settings that way primarily
his skin looks nice okay it's very simple I'm not gonna go in this tutorial
about the science behind RGB channels I've covered that in my previous videos
but I'm just gonna dial it by the eye now when you work on RGB it's very
important let me zoom in over here it's very important that you don't do too
much because you're gonna start getting a lot of artifacts if you're gonna crank
one of the parameters too much so it's gonna be unusable so when you do make
sure that your skin still looks relatively good we're not just skin in
general your image because you don't want to introduce this kind of a blotchy
artifact on anything okay so really quick before and after so it looks
really cool to my eyes what I'm gonna do now all l we're gonna convert it in a
layer mixer we're gonna go over here and we're gonna select soft light so now it
kind of looks like Saving Private Ryan which I don't want to do because I still
want to kind of keep that fresh commercial look so I'm gonna select all
this right click create compound node okay just like that and again we're
gonna go into key window and with a gain I'm gonna be able to control how much I
want to introduce that look okay so depending on the commercial or the field
that you want to introduce basically you dial in so you
flavor okay and this is how we color great progress file and make it look
very nice and cinematic very rich in a few easy steps so thank you guys for
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