- Today, I wanna show you a brand new way
to boost colors in Lightroom.
You've probably used a Lightroom adjustment for this,
which is pretty good.
The problem with Vibrance is
that when you push the colors too far,
it can look weird and unnatural.
Now, most people think that Vibrance
is as good as it can get.
But, I personally think that
there's a lot more room for improvement.
So, I made for you these new Lightroom profiles,
that will let you boost colors based on whether
it's neutral or vibrant colors.
Now, if that doesn't really make any sense to you,
don't worry, it's very simple,
I'm gonna show it to you in this video,
and, you're gonna kinda see how you can use it
to really improve your photos,
make it stand out, make your colors pop,
without over saturating already saturated colors,
or making neutral colors look like
this really weird color wash.
Anyways, if you're interested,
keep watching, and I'll show you how it works.
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Let's start right in, and see how it works.
First, you'll need to download the Lightroom profiles.
Which is free, by the way,
and the link is in the video description below.
It will only work with Lightroom CC,
or the Lightroom Classic CC.
After you've installed it,
you can go to your Profile browser here,
and you'll see a bunch of profiles
that will boost the colors.
So, here's how it works.
In this photo, if we used the Vibrance,
you can see how it does increase the vibrancy,
but the pizza has mustard yellow color shift
that does not look appetizing at all.
The same thing happens with Saturation.
By the way, in case you're wondering why
we're pushing the color so far,
you don't have to push it this far,
we're just doing it for this video,
so that you can see what's happening.
Here's the same photo with the Colorboost VC profile,
at 100% opacity.
As you can see, it's more vibrant,
yet the colors are more natural.
The colors are so vibrant,
that some of the green peppers here start to look neon.
Yet, you won't get that mustard yellow color shift
that you typically get with the Vibrance or Saturation.
By the way, with these profiles,
a little goes a long way.
The profiles at 100% are actually more powerful
than the Vibrance or Saturation at 100%.
So in many scenarios,
you don't even need to go more than 50%.
With the free download, you'll get two Colorboost profiles.
The first one is Colorboost NC,
which stands for neutral colors.
This will boost neutral colors,
and leave the already vibrant colors alone.
For example, in this photo, the grass in the middle
is a lot more vibrant than the other colors.
Colorboost NC will emphasize the effect
on the less vibrant colors, while leaving the grass alone.
Here's a comparison between Vibrance and Colorboost NC.
The red areas indicate that the colors are out-of-gamut,
they've been pushed too far.
And, as you can see, Colorboost NC gives roughly
the same amount of vibrancy but with better results.
The second profile is Colorboost VC,
which stands for vibrant colors.
And this is the opposite of Colorboost NC.
It will boost the vibrant colors,
while leaving the neutral colors neutral.
For example, this photo has a lot of neutral colors,
like the white walls and the gray rocks.
When you pump the Vibrance or Saturation,
these rocks turn yellow,
which does not look good at all.
With Colorboost VC, you can increase the vibrancy,
but keep it looking natural.
And, as you can see in this comparison,
it looks more vibrant and natural at the same time.
The best thing about Colorboost VC is that
it really makes the colors pop
with the contrast between the neutral and vibrant areas.
Again, we're obviously pushing colors further than
what you'd typically do,
so that you can see the difference.
You can further refine your Colorboost
in the Saturation section.
Here, you can fine tune the colors to get the perfect look.
I typically like to use a stronger setting on the profile
and then selectively lower it in the Saturation setting.
If you love these Lightroom profiles,
and you want even more, then upgrade to the Pro version.
First of all, if you upgrade to Pro version,
thank you so much for your support.
I really appreciate it, and your support means a lot to me.
With Colorboost Pro, you'll get a lot more profiles,
which will let you fine tune a look even further.
First, there's a landscape mode,
which will give you deeper blue skies similar to what Adobe
tries to do with their Vibrance.
If you shoot portraits,
you're going to love the portrait mode.
It lets you boost colors while protecting skin tones.
Finally, the shadows, midtones and highlights mode
let you target your Colorboost to a specific tonal range.
It's similar to luminosity masking in Photoshop.
To end the video, here are some before and after examples
of what you can do with Colorboost Pro.
Special thanks to Ty Bowmaker
for providing his photos for these examples.
He's a great photographer from Australia
who's nonstop traveling and creating.
If you like the photos that you see here,
make sure you check him out on Instagram and YouTube.
I hope you'll find these Lightroom profiles useful.
This product is actually my imagination
of of how Vibrance could work in the future.
Don't get me wrong, I still think Vibrance is great,
and it was a huge improvement
over the old Saturation adjustment.
But, we shouldn't stop at Vibrance.
There's a lot more room for improvement,
and I'd love for Adobe, and other developers
to reimagine some of their existing tools,
and how we process our photos.
There's so many tools in the post-processing world
that I truly believe can be improved.
This Colorboost product is just one small example.
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Lightroom profiles are really powerful.
I think there's a lot of potential for it.
There's a lot of things that we don't know yet,
or we haven't figured it out yet,
or come up with it yet.
So, I'm gonna really dive deep into Lightroom profiles.
If I find anything new, or anything cool,
I'll definitely let you know on this channel.
Make sure you subscribe to my channel,
if you're not already.
Leave a comment below if you have any questions,
or comments, and I'll see you in the next video.
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