- What's up everybody, Peter McKinnon here,
and today we're talking about how
to make your photos look cinematic fast, using less.
It's pretty easy, and it's pretty fast, so, let's go.
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Okay, what is going on?
Happy Sunday.
I was gonna go outside and do a tutorial today,
but it's just raining and gloomy, bleh,
nope so staying indoors.
Now I released my LUT pack
which are essentially seven presets
to color grade your footage within Premiere Pro,
Final Cut Pro, DaVinci, whatever it is that you use.
You guys seems to really really love them
but the question I got asked all the time,
so many emails and direct messages, DM's and tweets was,
"do these work in Lightroom or Photoshop?
"Can I use these with my photos?"
'Cause the general consensus, what most people just assume
are presets and actions would be classified
as the photo side of things
and LUT's would be the video side of the color correction.
So the answer is yes you can use LUT's within Photoshop
so if you already purchased the LUT pack
then you are good to go, just follow this tutorial
and you can use those same seven looks
to edit any photos that you want
and I'm gonna show you how to do that.
If you haven't the link is below,
you guys can check those out, you can use them
for both your photos and video, it speeds up your workflow.
It's the color correction and editing that I use a lot
on my videos and photos on Instagram or here on the channel
so link is below, once you've downloaded those
I'm gonna show you how to install them into you computer,
How we can use them in Photoshop to get a quick edit
to make something look so much better
and really really cinematic.
So without further ado let's just get started,
check this out, alright alright alright.
Okay so check this out.
Once you have downloaded your LUT pack
or if you have already downloaded it
you should have a folder here called
Peter McKinnon LUTS Cine Pack One.
Inside are seven cube files that you would use
within Premiere or DaVinci
or whatever video editing software that you have.
So if we want to use these for photos,
which we do because that's why you're here
and why you're watching.
So from the desktop you can hit Shift + Command + A on a Mac
and that will open up your Applications folder.
Now inside that you can double click on Photoshop 2017
if you are using the Creative Cloud
and within there you're gonna hit presets
and then you're gonna hit 3DLUTS.
Now within this folder
is where you're gonna open up the LUT pack
that you downloaded from the link in the description.
You're gonna Command + A to select all of those.
Hold down Alt so it's making a copy and then just drag over
to the 3DLUTS file, drop them in
and then you can clean that up
by Control clicking arrange by name,
and that's essentially it,
all of those seven LUT's are now installed
into the Photoshop presets folder
so when we access them within Photoshop
you have basically seven new presets
to color correct your photos at any given time.
So check this out, let's launch Photoshop.
Okay so let's start with one of the photos I took recently
in the Italian Alps of this cow, this yak dude or whatever,
Chewbacca's cousin essentially. (laughing)
So first thing's when you open it in Photoshop
it's going to open the camera RAW by default
and in there you can adjust the highlights,
the whites, the blacks, whatever,
you can pump the clarity,
do whatever edits you want ahead of time
before that file actually opens in Photoshop,
but for the sake of this tutorial
we're just gonna pretty much leave it like this,
it's exposed pretty even
so we're just going to open the image like so.
So now that we are here, we are in Photoshop,
you want to make sure that over on this side
Adjustments is selected,
if you don't have the Adjustments tab there
you can go over to Window
and you can come down to Adjustments,
make sure that's clicked
and then it will pop up on the right side.
You're gonna click on the one that looks like a grid
that says Color Lookup, and when you click on that
it's going to open this little window inside
that says 3DLUT File.
It says Load 3D LUT, so you're going to click on that,
and because we already dropped all of those files
into the folder a few seconds ago
they should all appear here in alphabetical order,
but they're all within this list,
so if we want to apply Kodak Killer to this photo
we're just gonna click on that and boom there it is,
pretty much good to go already.
It's a little bit too yellow,
but it makes an extra layer for you
so you can just come over here to the opacity
right in Layers panel
and just adjust the intensity of that LUT.
So maybe we like it around, 70% looks good.
Just like that and already from hiding that to now,
that looks a lot better.
So you could be done at this point if you wanted to,
everything is all and well.
If you want to add and tweak the photo
just a little bit more, maybe add some contrast,
sharpen it up a little bit,
kind of like what we talked about
in How to Make Your Photos Look Better Fast.
I'll give you the super fast version of that.
You want to hit Command + J with the background selected
which makes a new layer.
From that point come over to Filter, Blur,
run a Gaussian Blur on it.
I have it preset to five and just hit okay.
Now that makes the image blurry for a moment,
but what it does is if you change the blending mode
to Soft Light it kind of brings in
a lot of punchiness to that,
really really just exaggerates everything essentially,
but you want to take that opacity down to 50%,
'cause it's just a little too much.
From that point hit Shift + Option + Command + E,
that stamps a new visible layer
and what we're gonna do with that layer is desaturate it,
so hit Shift + Command + U, that desaturates it.
We're going to go back up to the panel over here
and select Overlay, now this looks like a muddy,
disgusting, contrasty mess, not to worry,
we click on Filter, Other, High Pass and what that does
is applies the sharpening to just the light
and the dark areas of the photo.
I have it preset at 10, you hit okay and there you have it.
You can bring that opacity down
just to adjust it a little bit as well
as maybe the background copy, you can eve drop that to 25%
just so it's not super overwhelming.
So that's before when the photo comes in to camera RAW
after we've tweaked the highlights
and the clarity a little bit
and then once we've run our LUT and a couple quick edits
boom that's what we have,
and then if you want you can just Command + Shift + E,
you can flatten that entire image, then Command + Shift,
save that to the desktop as a version two,
and we'll hit Save.
Let's grab another photo, let's open up this one,
which is actually my desktop background,
so that's the shot straight out of the camera.
I always just kind of protect the highlights a little bit.
I'm fine with that, let's just hit Open Image
which opens it up into Photoshop.
Make sure you're over here, on your Adjustments layer
you can click that little grid there Color Lookup.
Select that, Load 3D LUT.
Now different LUT's and different presets
are gonna look better with different photos.
That picture of the cow or yak or whatever it was, wookie,
(laughing) that looked really good with some warm tones
so I know Kodak Killer, which is one of the LUT's in my pack
would really really lend to that image well
so for this obviously Arctic Circle, Fade Out
or maybe Black Eye would be good,
but we can test them all out.
We can hit Black Eye,
which is really gonna make it dramatic and punchy.
You could save the photo right there,
that's a little warm for me
so I might drop the opacity a little bit.
Maybe to like 60%.
Now we can see by hiding that layer
and un-hiding it the difference it's made already
without really having to do anything in Photoshop.
So if you've never even used Photoshop
you can still edit your photos within it
without having to do anything using these LUT's.
So let's drop the opacity on this to zero
and slowly introduce it
just so we get it to a point where we're happy
before it starts to look a little overkill.
So I think probably around 50% for me is good.
We zoom that in a little bit,
that's with it, that's without it.
It's just enough punch in the sky.
If you want to effect the brightness and the contrast,
and just the different shadows and highlight levels
of this image further beyond what you've already done
with the LUT by adding the preset
come over to Image, hit Adjustments and hit Curves.
Now this curve line represents the shadows,
the midtones, and the highlights
so by adding new points to this curve
and dragging the curve around in different positions
we can effect how it's going to look
very very drastically just like so.
So for example if we drag the black line all the way up
we're getting rid of all the blacks, it's washing it out.
So what we want to do is maybe drag that up a little bit
to relax those blacks because it's a little bit dark
on the left side of this mountain here,
but then a little further up the curve,
closer to where the midtones start
I'm just gonna drag it down a little bit more.
I'm gonna bring those midtones down a little bit
just so that the snow isn't blowing out
and then I'm going to go back up to the highlights here
and just move that curve back to the original point,
so we have something that looks a little bit like this.
Now I'm happy with that.
You can preview what you've done
by clicking this check here,
preview on and off, so that's without it, that's with it.
I've just added a little more drama,
a little more dramatic feel to the photo
by punching up those blacks a little bit more
and I'm happy with that.
You can still come back in to the LUT at any time
and adjust that opacity to make it a little darker,
a little less dark, but I think still around 50, 55%
is what looks good to me.
So that is after, that's before, after.
So I just wanted to throw that out there for you guys
since I've been asked so many times this week
if these LUT's work with editing your photos?
So the answer is yes.
Again thank you guys so much for all your support.
I've seen some of the shots and some of the footage
that you guys have been tagging me and using them.
Your stuff looks great, keep it up, keep going,
and the best part about these
is just the experimental process.
It's so much fun to open different images
and run different presets on them
because they're gonna get completely different looks.
Some of these LUT's look like crap on some photos
and some of them it's just meant for it.
You load that preset,
you're like oh my goodness this looks so good,
you're super excited, you don't even,
you step away for a second you're like, (gasping) yes.
So maybe you can take what you've learned from that,
How to Make Your Photos Look Better Fast,
combine them with the How to Make Your Photos Look Cinematic
using LUT's in Photoshop, kind of tweak those two skills
and now you've got a really kind of good run and gun
photo editing process,
so it's not going to take you too long,
but it's going to take your images from here to here.
So like this video if you got something out of it.
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you don't even have to click it, whatever.
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and I will see you guys in the next video.
I just realized I'm not wearing a hat,
what do I do now?
We'll just use the hand.
Check this out you guys,
in order to have my computer
nice and clean on top of that desk
I had to move my iMac to the floor.
It's all about that perception people,
and behind me this nice and tidy room
that you guys like to see, such a mess, oh such a mess.
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