So, if you didn't already notice, today is an
Ariana Grande inspired tutorial
How's it going Simpletons? If you're wondering, no I did not
grow my hair overnight, these are extensions, this ain't my hair
I wish it was. So most of Ariana Grande's
are very vintage, very super 8
film like. It's as if she took them with a polaroid
A lot of her pictures are also black and white. So I'm going to show you
different options on how you
can edit like Ariana Grande. So this is the photo that
I recreated from one of her poses, and
I'm going to mimic the edit in this tutorial today.
So the first thing we're going to do, is Tune Image.
So I'm going to brighten the picture, I'm going to add a
little bit of contrast, teensy bit of ambiance
and up the highlights and shadows by a
little bit as well. I'm going
straight into Grainy Film. So if you look at the picture
of Ariana, you'll notice that it's super grainy. It looks like she took the picture
with a light source or flash. I took my picture
during the daytime, that's why there's no shadows.
We're just going to ignore that fact and keep going. I'm going to use my favorite
filter within Grainy Film, so I'm going to start with X04
I'm going to add more grain than I normally would.
I'm going to decrease the filter to about 40
Then I'm going to go back into Grainy Film and use X03.
I'm going to take away the grain, and add just about
20 of X03. Alright so the next thing we're going to do
is go into Curves. So we're going to start with the luminance curve
as always. I'm going to up the highlights, midtones,
and shadows to kind of mimic the flash that she's using
So Ariana is super tanned, but she's not burnt like a lobster
like I look like right now, so we're going to fix that with the red curve
So right now I'm trying to mimic Ariana's complexion
Her skin tone is more on the yellowier side
in the shot. I'm going to play with the green and blue curves
especially the midtones to kind of mimic that. Last thing
we're going to do is play with the RGB curve.
I'm going to lower the highlights and up the midtones and shadows as I normally would.
Alright, so now that we're done with that we are going to go into White Balance.
So I'm going to carefully play with
the temperature and the tint to get similar tones to
Ariana's picture, so I'm going to up the tint
because there tends to be a lot of pink tones
within Ariana's shots. And I'm also going to up
the temperate to make my complexion more tanned.
If you're feeling a little bit extra like I am today, because I didn't have a
hairclip on me, I'm just going to use double exposure
to add the clip that Ariana is wearing
onto my head. So, voila!
Like magic!
Alright so after a few adjustments to the brightness and
white balance, this is the final shot.
So this is before
and this is after. If we compare it to Ariana's picture
I think we're pretty close.
So that's one way you could edit this picture. If you're feeling a bit moody
Ariana tends to play with black and white, so
we can easily make this by going into Black & White.
I'm actually going to choose the dark tone, and adjust
the brightness and contrast to my liking. And voila!
Now if you wanted to get more of that polaroid effect
that's really simple as well. I would go back into
Grainy Film and choose the L01 filter and get rid of the
grain because we've already added it into the shot. You can toggle the
filter to your liking. And if you wanted to take it one step further
and add some dust, you can do that again
by going into Double Exposure, choosing a
dust png, and adding it on top of
your photo. In this case I chose the default mode and
adjusted the percentage of the filter to not make it so heavy
or obvious, and then I went back into
Undo, then View Edits to erase some of the
dust on my body. And voila again!
So those are a few different ways that you could edit like Ariana
If only Snapseed could make me sing like Ariana, but
we can't have it all can we? Please give this video a thumbs up
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