@@fototripper best strategy, it just amazes me how nasty men can be. It's only men. Do they have some pain, deep seated pain, in their veins that only comes out in comments on ads and videos? Like maybe they feel that's a safe space? I don't know. It's pretty sad 🥺
@@f64Academy D'ya know, I never even thought about it before but you're right, it's always men. I'm sure they are men that have lots of friends, excellent portfolios and the admiration of their co-workers. I'm sure of it.
As always, in little minutes you make it very clear how to improve your workflow with little effort. Together with the actions, it is a most useful and powerful extension of the Blend-if panel you created! Thank for sharing this!!! 👍👏👏👏
So clever and useful! I thought this video was going to show a new feature of PS until you said, "Why didn't I come up with this sooner" in the intro. I immediately thought "I bet he uses blend if!" Easing into the colors is a great improvement over the standard clipping features in ACR, Lightroom, etc.
Hi Blake, thanks for the "Clippings Warning" action, I have used this in conjunction with the "Blend If Panel" and it works just as outlined in your video. Superb Function 👏👏👏
Thanks again for this explanation. Have already learned a lot from you and a loyal follower. I am already a user of the luminosity panel, but this is a valuable addition. I combined the two actions with the end result of a group that I can quickly switch on and off.
Hi Blake. Thanks for another educational and interesting video. I will definitely use this in my workflow. Been using your blendif panel for some time now and think it's great. Thanks and greetings from Micke
I tend to use the hand tool in curves, go around the image & keep an eye on the histogram position. This is really useful but PS should have given us this years ago. Thanks 👍
Thank you once again for your videos. I already have your blend if panel and this technique works well with it. I used the tone curve and pinned the midtones first. Had trouble seeing dark areas untill I relised the blue solid colour layer matched the blue car in the photo, changed it to magenta - no problem.
For sure! magenta is my go to, but when you need two different colors for two different areas, this is very helpful. Otherwise, I'm with you, I'll take magenta.
Your clipping warnings in Photoshop can serve a secondary purpose, to understand how various blend modes affect an image. Generating a blue and red and creating a curves adjustment, I have cycled through the blend modes and it now tells me how the image will be affected. This can be a great learning tool to help anticipate how a blend mode might be altered.
Thanks to the "Algorithm Gods of TH-cam" (🤣) I have recently come across your channel and I just wanted to leave a comment to thank you 🙏🏻 The amount I have learned from in such a short space of time is incredible. Cheers man 🤟
Possibly. Development takes a LOT more than just, "let's put this on here", we have to think about space, where it would fit on the panel, then I have to update every place online where this thing exists and then I have to email thousands of people. It's a nightmare, and the worst of them TBH lol. Maybe, hint hint
I'm going to buy your course regardless. I think thats very reasonably priced for the average Joe like myself. But do you think that using the blend if is the best way for editing wildlife photos as well? Or is that more geared towards landscapes/portraits etc? I have pretty good images of wildlife but my editing is really bad, photoshop is so confusing
Thanks! Blend of is not genre specific, it's tone and color specific. Every image has tones and colors 😁 I use blend if on every image that comes through PS regardless of the genre. The course will go in depth on the uses for blend if.
Hi Blake: I own the blend if panel, but it seems easier to use the actions than it is to create the red and blue and make the adjustments in the blend if panel every time I want to use it. Am I missing something? In any case, thanks for the panel and the presets.
Have you considered using this technique with your 5 tone heat map? It would seem to be a great marriage of the two, though it would require a bit of work. But the benefit is when using curves, you should see the heat map change in real time. Then again, your heat map is a gradient, so I'm curious now which will be more efficient, gradient maps or a series of BlendIf layers. Probably come down to personal choice, but I'm going to test that out for myself.
They are both used for different things really. I probably wouldn't use them together as that color map would get horribly confusing. This is much simpler.
@@f64Academy is there a way to create an action on photoshop that reproduce the same “colors reading “ on Adobe website ? It would be less annoying … save a quick jpeg, export, upload on Adobe , create a swatch, read the swatch from libraries … thank you Blake
Your Blend IF panel is an excellent addition to my workflow! And the clipping warning looks very useful, but I need some help (probably an operator head space & timing issue) fixing only the clipped areas identified by the actions. Would you please show slow learners like myself how you would do that?
@@f64Academy Blake, thank you for your reply. Don't fully understand the action's value in real time because I can see changes to clipping while editing in LR. I thought this might be the same. You might show what you would do to an image of yours if you saw those areas identified by your clipping actions?
@@DC-lo2cs taper back on what is causing it, if my edits caused it. Otherwise there isn't much you can do in PS, that would need to be looked at more closely in RAW before PS. But in PS this is the only way of seeing them. That's what I was getting at with the entire video really. In LR you see them in real time, in PS you don't, this is how you do. To ensure you don't clip or blow out too much.
Unfortunately, no. I only create products for Photoshop because that's the only place I conduct my workflow, to top it off the code would be completely different and I'm not sure my developer can do that.
I don't know why people could be upset about a freebie that makes life easier either. This panel looks awesome!
You know how it goes, lol, you work in this same space and probably delete just as many comments as I do :)
@@f64Academy Oh I just block and forget mate, block and forget.
@@fototripper best strategy, it just amazes me how nasty men can be. It's only men. Do they have some pain, deep seated pain, in their veins that only comes out in comments on ads and videos? Like maybe they feel that's a safe space? I don't know. It's pretty sad 🥺
@@f64Academy D'ya know, I never even thought about it before but you're right, it's always men. I'm sure they are men that have lots of friends, excellent portfolios and the admiration of their co-workers. I'm sure of it.
@@fototripper yes and beautiful wives with nice cars and white teeth. The portrait of social perfection 🤔
As always, in little minutes you make it very clear how to improve your workflow with little effort. Together with the actions, it is a most useful and powerful extension of the Blend-if panel you created! Thank for sharing this!!!
👍👏👏👏
You're very welcome! It's always my pleasure!
Blake, your blend if panel is probably the most useful addition to photoshop I’ve seen and used. Love it. The clipping warnings are a great bonus.
Wow! Thanks so much :) I really appreciate that.
So clever and useful! I thought this video was going to show a new feature of PS until you said, "Why didn't I come up with this sooner" in the intro. I immediately thought "I bet he uses blend if!" Easing into the colors is a great improvement over the standard clipping features in ACR, Lightroom, etc.
Thanks Blake this is amazing instead of having to use raw bonus and use blend if in PS.
Great
For sure! Simple life saver!
Great stuff, thank you Blake! (Killer Bald Eagle flight shot, BTW! Adults are majestic, but usually look meh unless captured just right. Nailed it!)
Thanks! That was a great day to shoot!
Hi Blake, thanks for the "Clippings Warning" action, I have used this in conjunction with the "Blend If Panel" and it works just as outlined in your video. Superb Function 👏👏👏
Awesome! Glad you agree 😁
Fantastic idea! I thoroughly enjoy your Blend-if panel, an absolutely useful and use friendly tool.
Thank you for this addition to my Blend If Plugin
My pleasure
Thanks again for this explanation. Have already learned a lot from you and a loyal follower.
I am already a user of the luminosity panel, but this is a valuable addition. I combined the two actions with the end result of a group that I can quickly switch on and off.
Perfect! That helps turn them both off at the same time😁
Yet another great use for the awesome Blend-If panel! Thank you!
You bet! :)
Hi Blake. Thanks for another educational and interesting video. I will definitely use this in my workflow. Been using your blendif panel for some time now and think it's great.
Thanks and greetings from Micke
Woohoo! This feature is on the next iteration of the panel 😁
This is absolutely amazing and I am adding that to my work flow as we speak. 👌
Woohoo! Glad you like it.
Great tip, Blake. Thank you!
Any time!
I tend to use the hand tool in curves, go around the image & keep an eye on the histogram position. This is really useful but PS should have given us this years ago. Thanks 👍
Agreed! So many missed opportunities. You know they keep doing pointless Ps updates but these things could REALLY help us.
Thank you once again for your videos. I already have your blend if panel and this technique works well with it. I used the tone curve and pinned the midtones first. Had trouble seeing dark areas untill I relised the blue solid colour layer matched the blue car in the photo, changed it to magenta - no problem.
For sure! magenta is my go to, but when you need two different colors for two different areas, this is very helpful. Otherwise, I'm with you, I'll take magenta.
Thanks! I really needed that with my old PS ... eases my eyes from staring at that histogram!
You and me both! :)
Love it. I think it would be nice if clipping warnings are added to the next update for the Blend If panel. Meanwhile the actions are great.
Maybe, we'll see
aMAZing! It might be handy to put the two layers in a Clipping group.
For sure, you could definitely do that.
Great idea.
Your clipping warnings in Photoshop can serve a secondary purpose, to understand how various blend modes affect an image. Generating a blue and red and creating a curves adjustment, I have cycled through the blend modes and it now tells me how the image will be affected. This can be a great learning tool to help anticipate how a blend mode might be altered.
Sweet! Dual purpose :)
Excellent action. Thank u so much.
My pleasure!
Thanks to the "Algorithm Gods of TH-cam" (🤣) I have recently come across your channel and I just wanted to leave a comment to thank you 🙏🏻
The amount I have learned from in such a short space of time is incredible.
Cheers man 🤟
Yes! I love it! Thank you for commenting and leaving some kind words here :)
Thank you! I actually think its a great addition and I know I'll use it
Sweet! Glad you feel that way too :)
Thank you, great instruction. Any chance that our Blend-if panels can have used defined presets in the future? Hint, hint...
Possibly. Development takes a LOT more than just, "let's put this on here", we have to think about space, where it would fit on the panel, then I have to update every place online where this thing exists and then I have to email thousands of people. It's a nightmare, and the worst of them TBH lol. Maybe, hint hint
Very cool!! I imagine this could be used with the other tools - ZSE and PE! 😃
it sure can :)
I'm going to buy your course regardless. I think thats very reasonably priced for the average Joe like myself. But do you think that using the blend if is the best way for editing wildlife photos as well? Or is that more geared towards landscapes/portraits etc? I have pretty good images of wildlife but my editing is really bad, photoshop is so confusing
Thanks! Blend of is not genre specific, it's tone and color specific. Every image has tones and colors 😁 I use blend if on every image that comes through PS regardless of the genre. The course will go in depth on the uses for blend if.
Hi Blake: I own the blend if panel, but it seems easier to use the actions than it is to create the red and blue and make the adjustments in the blend if panel every time I want to use it. Am I missing something?
In any case, thanks for the panel and the presets.
No that's correct. For now anyway.
This is very COOL.
I'm glad you liked it!
Have you considered using this technique with your 5 tone heat map? It would seem to be a great marriage of the two, though it would require a bit of work. But the benefit is when using curves, you should see the heat map change in real time. Then again, your heat map is a gradient, so I'm curious now which will be more efficient, gradient maps or a series of BlendIf layers. Probably come down to personal choice, but I'm going to test that out for myself.
They are both used for different things really. I probably wouldn't use them together as that color map would get horribly confusing. This is much simpler.
This is so useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Gold, thanks! I'm just gonna tweak it to only show up for pure 255 white.
Sure thing! I like the full zone to give me a subtle heads up, but full 255 is good too!
Very interesting… thank you Blake…
My pleasure!
@@f64Academy is there a way to create an action on photoshop that reproduce the same “colors reading “ on Adobe website ? It would be less annoying … save a quick jpeg, export, upload on Adobe , create a swatch, read the swatch from libraries … thank you Blake
@@cnicolo I have no idea what that application would be so I find it difficult to help.
Your Blend IF panel is an excellent addition to my workflow! And the clipping warning looks very useful, but I need some help (probably an operator head space & timing issue) fixing only the clipped areas identified by the actions. Would you please show slow learners like myself how you would do that?
You really can't fix something that is already clipped, these help you ensure you don't clip them more or avoid it altogether while you are editing
@@f64Academy Blake, thank you for your reply. Don't fully understand the action's value in real time because I can see changes to clipping while editing in LR. I thought this might be the same. You might show what you would do to an image of yours if you saw those areas identified by your clipping actions?
@@DC-lo2cs taper back on what is causing it, if my edits caused it. Otherwise there isn't much you can do in PS, that would need to be looked at more closely in RAW before PS. But in PS this is the only way of seeing them. That's what I was getting at with the entire video really. In LR you see them in real time, in PS you don't, this is how you do. To ensure you don't clip or blow out too much.
@@f64Academy Ok, I got it now, and it makes sense. Thank you!
Oh wow, awesome, and thank you for taking the time to explain everything. Even this dummy could understand.😅🎉
😎 give yourself more credit 😁 you rock!
WTF!? You are my spirit animal.
haha!
Hi Blake, is your Blend If panel available for Affinity Photo?
Unfortunately, no. I only create products for Photoshop because that's the only place I conduct my workflow, to top it off the code would be completely different and I'm not sure my developer can do that.
Is this now built into the Blend if panel?
No, development is a long process, this is an ah-ha moment I shared because of the panel.
Thanks.
TK8 panel has option similar to this, uses a single Blue/Red gradient map rather than two separate colour fill layers.
That's cool, I didn't know that! Very similar approach.