- Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how
to make color pop in Lightroom.
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Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs!
My name is Serge Ramelli, I am a French photographer
from the amazing, incredible city of Paris, France.
And in this video, I wanna take you with me to Kokomo Beach.
It's one of the nicest beach of the Caribbean,
and I wanna show you how you can really retouch the colors
on the sunset so they come out really right.
It's not always easy, but don't forget
you can download the source files
if you don't have the chance to go to Curacao,
you can just download the source files right away
and also I'm gonna give you my Photography Toolbox.
What is my Photography Toolbox?
Well, it's some of my best presets, profiles,
textures, and brushes that I use,
with tutorial on how to use them.
It's all free, you can get it from clicking the link
up there, or from the link under this video.
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As Bee Gees says, there's a place I wanna go,
and that is Kokomo, lemme show you.
Alright guys, really quick, a little video
about some of my favorite photo that I took in,
this was in Kokomo Beach in Curacao in the Caribbeans.
I was, you know they have this sort of playground
for kids here, and the sun was pretty high.
This is, I took so many photos, this is the one
that I liked the most, so I tried it
with different characters.
And so the sun was pretty high on this one,
then the sun got lower on this one
where there's two beautiful ladies,
and then there was this other lady that was there.
The sun was really at the horizon.
And then no one was there.
So I tried different things.
So let's see here, I'm gonna use my signature presets,
which you can get for free if you click.
I'm gonna try on this one, I'm gonna go crazy,
I'm gonna go sunset, sunset linear dark,
something like this.
One click and, boom, look at that.
It's crazy, it's a little over the top,
so I'm gonna lower down the saturation.
Don't need to be so much saturated.
I think on this one, you see I don't like
when there is too much blue in the sky, remember?
I'm gonna take this little spot out.
A preset is only a starting point.
I think I'm gonna use the little gradient here.
I have a little gradient in my signature preset,
I'm gonna add a little bit more blue.
There was already some blue there,
but I wanna get more blue.
Let's see, that's too much blue.
You gotta be very subtle.
Cause if you add too much color that was not there,
you can really see it afterwards.
I just wanted to add a little bit more.
But because there's a bit of a lag,
yeah that's too much of a difference, you see?
I'm gonna back it down.
I just wanted to add a bit more blue.
Okay, that's kind of cool.
On this one, I'm just gonna make this, that's alright.
I'm gonna take my radial circle.
If you use my preset, you will see,
you have to click, there is circles.
You have to put this one over the sun,
and then you have to go here to range mask
if you've got, you don't have to do that,
it's an optional step, but if you have Lightroom CC,
the latest, and you have this new,
beautiful luminence slider, you can use that
and you move this to the right.
Then this way, whatever it's doing on the sun,
you see, check out the difference.
See how the color of the sun is pitting
over on the boy and everything?
And if I do that, it's more around the sun
because it creates a mask.
So if you press the option key, you can even see
what the mask looks like, which is really cool.
Black conceals, white reveals.
So the black, see the boy is black,
so he's not gonna get influenced by that radial circle.
If you wanna get the signature preset,
just download it here, it's for free.
I have new way to deliver the files to you
through Messenger, it's much faster.
You just click and you get the files.
Okay, and maybe this one I'm gonna crop,
but before I do that, I'm gonna select all,
and I'm gonna synchronize what I did
on this one on the other ones.
Cause I think it will do most of the heavy lifting.
So let's take, on this one,
this one, the sun was coming down.
A little bit, again a preset is just a starting point,
like I find this one really lacks of contrast,
and maybe add a bit more contrast on this one.
Maybe add a bit of vibrance, I did not add
any vibrance on the other one cause it was so bright.
And then let's say this one,
I love to take photos when the sun is right at the horizon.
The two pretty girls left and I got an old lady that came,
but, you know, that's life, but she had
an interesting hat, so that's kind of cool.
And then the last one is this one.
So I always work like this with preset,
it goes really fast, you know?
So which one do I like the most?
I'm gonna press n, n is gonna put me into survey mode.
Shift + tab to go really fullscreen,
and I can see all the photos,
which one I think will do best on 500 px.
I think the one that's gonna do best is this one,
is the one of the boy because the expression
of the boy is cool, but I don't like
so much the water down here on this one.
It's a bit blurry cause it's lagging.
So I think I'm gonna crop this one.
So let me go back on this, shift + tab, to go back.
And I'm just gonna use this one, I'm just gonna crop it.
I don't wanna distract it with something else,
so I'm just gonna come here and cut this,
and then I'm gonna post this on 500 px, and I'm gonna go get
a 95.7 reward, be on the homepage of 500 px,
you know, I hope, maybe not.
You know, usually, I don't like photos
when the sun is too high, but in this one,
because of the boy was so awesome,
I think it works really the best.
You know, I think I like more the light here,
when there was this lady there,
but the fact that the boy is there.
You see, for me, what makes a really cool photo is having
a foreground, a background, and a middle ground,
and I think he is just so awesome,
with the way he does with his arms,
it's just more cute.
Okay, guys, I hope you like this video,
and if you do, please give it a little like.
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Also, don't forget to download the source files
so you can train at home, follow my tutorials,
and get it right, also.
And don't forget to download my photography toolbox.
That toolbox is gonna use some of my best presets,
profiles, textures, and brushes,
and tutorials on how to use them.
Mesdames et messieurs, au revoir,
I will see you in another video.
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