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- [Denny] Hello, and welcome
to this episode of Denny's Tips.
This week I made for you some really cool
Photoshop actions and LUTs
that will transform your colors in your photos
to a variety of orange teal, and orange blue effects.
They're very easy to use.
The Photoshop actions are fully editable
and non-destructive.
You also get LUTs that you can use in other software,
such as Adobe Premier, After Effects,
Final Cut Pro, Affinity Photo, and more.
The download link is in the description below,
but first, let me show you how they work.
This download includes both LUTs and Photoshop actions.
If you're using Photoshop, you definitely want to use
the Photoshop actions over the LUTs
because it's more flexible.
You can load the actions simply double-clicking
on the .ATN file.
Note that there are several .ATN files
for different versions of Photoshop,
so check the file name
and open the one that matches your version of Photoshop.
Once you have them loaded,
you can find them in the Actions panel.
If you don't see this panel,
you can open it by going to Window, Actions.
Here in the Actions panel, you can find all of the effects.
Select the Play All Effects action
and hit the play button.
This action will pre-render all of the effects
and it will save you so much time
compared to playing them one by one.
By the way, if you're using Photoshop Elements,
this feature is unfortunately unavailable
and you'll have to play the actions one by one.
But I did include a handy reference chart for you to use.
Once the actions are done playing,
you can pick an effect from your History panel.
If you don't have the panel open already,
you can click Continue and it'll open it for you.
The first thing that you'll notice is that
the effects show up instantly,
and that's because they're all pre-rendered.
Also, all of the layers
are fully editable and non-destructive.
It won't merge your layers or use any tricks
to hide the techniques.
You can go into your layers and find the exact formula,
and I also encourage you to do this,
because I think it's a great learning experience.
By the way, my favorite look is this Berlin look right here.
I spent an entire day tweaking this effect,
experimenting with it on a ton of photos,
and really just trying to perfect the look.
Unlike the standard orange and teal look,
where the colors are either orange or teal and nothing else,
the Berlin look keeps a lot of the colors.
It's also not like most typical vintage looks
that are dull and faded.
My goal was to create something that was the opposite,
something that still gives you that retro, vintage feeling,
while using bright, vibrant colors.
It works great for busy city photos like this one,
with lots of lights and colors.
It also works great on sunset and sunrise photos
with the warm highlights and cool shadows.
For daytime photos like this one, which,
by the way, was provided by an awesome photographer
from Vancouver named Geoffrey.
And thank you, Geoff, for the photos, by the way.
When you use the Berlin look in the daytime photos,
like this one, the teal will look unnatural,
so the solution I came up with
is to have a separate layer for the teals,
and you can fade it simply by changing the layer opacity.
If you upgrade to a pro version,
you get a lot more features.
First of all, if you upgrade to a pro version,
thank you so much for supporting my channel,
I really appreciate it.
In the pro version, you'll get 11 additional looks.
Just like with the free Photoshop actions,
all of the layers are fully editable and non-destructive.
The pro version takes it a step further
with a special version just for Photoshop CC.
If you use any of my other products,
you'll know that I really try to make use
of all the features in Photoshop CC.
The first features is built-in error detection.
So if your image is, for example, in the wrong color mode,
instead of getting an error message,
the actions will try to find the problem
and fix it for you automatically.
The second features is automatic skin tone masking.
So, sometimes a look will give you undesirable skin tones.
For example, this blue cyan look here applies
a very consistent color grade throughout the entire photo.
But your client might not like
that the skin tones are so pale and white.
So what you can do is click on this layer mask here
to turn it on, and that will restore the skin tones.
This mask is automatically created,
and because it uses Photoshop's face detection feature,
it'll work best if there's a face in the photo
for it to use as a reference.
Right now, she looks very tan
in comparison to the brightness of the photo.
We can fix this by going to the Properties panel
and adjusting the Feather setting,
which will blur the layer mask.
And right now it already looks much better.
You can also adjust the Density setting,
which is like adjusting the opacity.
I'll set mine to around 80%.
And now you can see that the photo
still has the same color grading,
but the skin tones look much more natural.
The final feature you get in the pro version
are what I call stackable LUTs.
These stackable LUTs act like layers,
and you can combine them
to adjust the opacity of the individual LUTs
to get the look that you're going for.
For example, with the Berlin look,
it natively has this teal color to it,
which you might find too strong for some photos or videos.
And now with stackable LUTs,
you can customize it to your liking
simply by adjusting the LUTs opacity.
Here are some examples of what you can achieve
with these Photoshop actions and LUTs.
And once more, special thanks to Geoffrey
for providing his photos for this video.
If you wanna check out some of his work,
he's on Instagram under the username ggeoffreyy.
Speaking of Instagram, I also have an account now,
so if you want to see what's behind the scenes,
what I'm working on and other stuff that you don't see
on my YouTube channel,
you can follow me, and my Instagram username is dennystips.
If you need any help with this product,
there's an instructions.html file,
and inside there you'll find a link
where you can contact me directly.
(upbeat punky music)
Hey, thanks for watching this video.
In the past two weeks, we've gotten a lot more subscribers,
close to double of what I had one or two months ago.
So I just wanna let you know that I did notice it,
I really appreciate it, I appreciate your comments
and your messages, so thank you so much for your support.
I will definitely be making more tutorials for you,
so stay tuned, I hope you had an amazing day,
and I hope to see you again next week.