5 PRACTICAL Uses for Color Calibration in ACR & Lightroom
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How many times have you skipped right over the CALIBRATION section in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom?
Probably a thousand and a half...
What if I told you there is a ton of helpful data in that section that can give you incredible colors in any photo of any genre. Would you skip it then?
Probably not.
Here are 5 Very Practical uses for the Color Calibration section in ACR and Lightroom:
00:00 Intro
00:36 #1 Slight Color Boost
03:02 #2 More Color from Little Color
04:44 #3 Better Color in Wildlife Images
06:32 #4 Much Better Skin Tone Quality
09:38 #5 Refining Your Color at the End of Your Workflow
12:41 Learn More About Color Calibration
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Very helpful reminder about the 'forgotten' calibration tool in LR and ACR, Blake. Thanks for showing us 5 ways the calibration can be used in our workflow.
The Calibration sliders are some of my favorite tools!
They help me to get that saturated look that I am currently into!
Have a nice weekend!
After ignoring the color calibration panel for years, I started using it this year and it has ROCKED my world. But I never thought of layer blend modes or masking. Genius! Thanks for the hot tips Blake!
I have been using Color Calibration for about a year now. But you just showed me how to use it in a more effective manner. Thank you.
Great video as always Blake, thank you. I actually do use this tool, but only because you taught me how!!
I've been using calibration for a while now but never thought to use it at the end of the work flow. Great info and video Blake! 😃
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Thanks Blake ; someone (maybe you) showed me the Color calibration tip/tricks quite some time ago and this video gave more ideas to explore .
I actually have 34% blue saturation in my "LR start up" preset used on most raw files --- gives me a sort of off the card jpeg look .
Then there are presets to add/remove different variations for all the colours that will be used more as I try to break out of the "always done it like the natural look" mode .
Gotta love the model's amazing hair !
"87 pixels of red" -- terminology point, the *one* pixel you're looking at has a red "level" of 87 out of 255. :)
Yeah, you know sometines when you are recording a video you say things and you know what you meant to say but you say something else... Yeah... Try making a video, lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@f64Academy I only mentioned it 'cuz you were so consistent about it. :) Can't say that I've never made mistakes either. :)
Another great tutorial from Blake! Always a new way to look at things and always so much more beneficial than what I've been doing! Thanks!!
😁 I'm just glad I can help, is all my pleasure to see your growth. Thanks for sticking it out!
Thank you! this was very helpful and made the process alot more smooth when editing
Excellent video - I am one of those who never even used calibration, I now have a sense of what I have been missing. thanks - subscribed
To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial.
Thankyou.
Blake, after watching this tutorial I worked on a picture of mine, which was a night shot of a wall of a building with lettering which is lit by three lamps. I have loved the picture but when I used calibration the colors popped! It made the lettering look almost 3D. I couldn't believe how much an image I already thought was good got do much better. I can't wait to go back and rework some more older photos. Thank you!
That's awesome! I love that you put it into practice! Good on you 😁
I am going try this for sure! You always have great videos. Thank you 😊
To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial.
Thankyou.
A great video about the great tool! :) From time, I convert my pictures to black-and-white. The combination of Color Calibration, Color Mixer and Basic Adjustments is so much more powerful than simply desaturating the image or using one of the built-in BW filters (red etc.)
Absolutely 😁
The calibration tool is the main thing that makes me stick with ACR for RAW processing, and I’ve tried most of the other ones. In pre-COVID times I shot live music in small venues and it was the only tool that would help correct the colour cast from the terrible LED lighting. Even in larger venues with decent lighting rigs it still helped give the musicians better skin tones.
That sounds like a great use for it
What is ACR?
@@sanjayvenkatesh4651 Adobe Camera Raw
@@sanjayvenkatesh4651 Adobe Camera Raw
Ive taken a couple Photoshop courses. Yours is by far the best. I actually feel like I know what I'm doing now
I love it! I'm just glad I can help 😁
Blake Rudis my photoshop-hero. Again a great, helpful video. Thank you very much.
Haha, thanks, glad you liked it.
Nice presentation with concrete examples. Thank you.
Thank you! I appreciate it😁
Thanks so much Blake. Great video!
The pleasure is all mine!
I always wonder why you have so few subscribers! Your channel has everything. Gosh! We need to share more of your work.
That would be very helpful 😁 thank you!
Thank you so much sir
As always, very interesting!
Great video. I use Calibration a lot near the end of my workflow prior to Color Mixer, but it was a case of "suck it and see." I'll be more objective after this. Thanks Blake! :)
My pleasure! Glad you like it!
Blake, I watched your calibration video in July 2020 and I've used those tips a lot ever since. It's really shifted my thinking when it comes to tonality and colour range, especially using it as a starting point before adjusting colours further in Photoshop. What a massive difference it makes.
Thank you !Blake, One more great on COLOR 👍 Love from Nepal
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁
great video very helpful... I am super new (only had my camera and lightroom for about 6 weeks).. so total newbie ignorant question.. how do you move the tools so that you can get them in order of how you would like to edit your pictures
Great video, hope every video with sample landscape and photo and more different object. Thank you
Most of my videos are landscape as that's what I primarily shoot.
Great tutorial! And you're right...most of us just skip over the Calibration section: THANKS!
It's an important piece to the puzzle 😁
Hi Blake, Thank you for another informative and practical video. I regularly use Calibration early in my raw processing before going into Photoshop. I really like your approach to using Calibration at the end of the workflow for color grading using Adobe Camera Raw as a filter and will start experimenting.
It's pretty cool! I like the result, especially with blend modes, blend if, masks, etc
Thanks!
Again, mind blown this is going to be my new goto adjustment :-) The master strikes again :-)
To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial.
Thankyou.
awesomely helpful. liked. subscribed!
Woot! Thanks!
I'm a new subscriber here!!!! amazing work dudes.
Thanks 😁
Nice tutorial.... thanks for sharing.... Subscribed
Woohoo! Thanks so much!
Excellent tip. Thank you Blake. For a while now I’ve known that boosting the blue primary does really great things for a landscape photo and sometimes even portraits. But this adds new dimensions to that tool. Is there a point when boosting the saturation in the calibration starts to degrade the image? Because it seems like you can go all the way to 100% and it doesn’t Look like the image becomes posterized. What do we have to be careful about when boosting these levels?
You can definitely push these colors pretty far without pasteurization. It's a very natural boost but when you take them too far they do look unnatural. Always a balance to maintain a natural saturation in your images.
Great video, thanks! I did use this function already but is there a way to use the color calibration sliders at the Loupedeck Plus in Lightroom CC?? That would really speed up my workflow!
You probably could, loupedeck is pretty customizable, but I don't think that would speed it up as much as knowing how to use this tool. Moving the mouse or a knob, either way they are fast.
Very Brilliant...
Thank you!
Excellent video, Professor “C”
😁😁😁 thanks!
To clarify, the RGB numbers refer to percentages of each, and are not a pixel count of the color. This is made more clear by the presence of fractions in some of the numbers - as pixels can't be divided any smaller than they are.
Yeah, that was a brain fart, lol, it happens when you make videos. Thanks for clarifying.
Very helpful!
Glad you thought so!
Thanks Blake, this is a real eye-opener :-) Em, during the intro you refer to "very little people". Is this a crack at Gavin (phototripper) ?? If so, kudos to you !
Haha! Rephrase, few people... Lol
GREAT WORK
Than you 😁
To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial.
Thankyou.
That's a great tool!
I dig it 😁
I use it all the time. Even for grading video
That's a great use for it. Although the rendering time would be atrocious on long videos!
You won a new suscriber!
Woot 😁
I mean you can use this I guess. But that's meant to be what the Color Mixer menu is for. The Calibration menu is there to help you create a calibration setting for your camera. Usually after photographing a MacBeth colorchecker chart under controlled lighting.
True, but there is much better and gives a more natural boost to your colors. Experiment with it, then use the color mixer. As for the order of things this is essentially read first therefore your color mixer results will be better.
Do you have a tutorial for the brush that you're using for the masks in this video?
I sure do: th-cam.com/video/WkI0xMO6jyE/w-d-xo.html
@@f64Academy ooo! Thanks so much!
Thanks for the great information. I have been colorizing WW2 imaged for a family project and "something" seemed to be dull and missing and Hue/Sat and/or contrast sometimes pushed to colors into an unreal look. I watched the first part of the video, tried it and it worked great. Then I continued watching your video and you mentioned skin tones and how it improves them LOL. It also somehow seems to "unify" all the colors in the colorized image and make them blend together more naturally. Take Care and Stay Safe!
When looking at the red, green, and blue histograms in a certain small area in the image, aren't the r, g, b numbers displayed actually the average values on a scale of 0 to 255, rather than number of pixels?
Yes 0-255, it's just easier to think about it that way.
Excellent video. Just one criticism: when showing results of your adjustments--slooow down and give me a chance to see the before and after difference.
Blake, In ACR how do you move the calibration panel up the list so it falls under the Basic panel
Right click inside that space and you should get some configuration options
@@f64Academy Thank you!
How do you re-order those filters & put calibration near the top?
Right click inside the empty space below all the settings
@@f64Academy ohh found it! Thank you & super useful video
Calibration panel in Lightroom ?! I had work with it in Lightroom Classic but it was not available in Lightroom (CC / Mobile) !?
Very little people are more technical. They compensate!
like ur voice!!
Thanks!
how do I move the calibration panel to the top
Right click in that space on the right. Theres an option in there to move the menu items. Follow the prompt for moving them.
Thank you. This is fascinating, but don't be hating on 'very little people."
🤓 what’s that for an interesting brush you’re using around 9:00?
It's a brush I made from this video: th-cam.com/video/WkI0xMO6jyE/w-d-xo.html
@@f64Academy Thanks 🙌
Is this calibration tool in Lightroom CC or just Lightroom classic?
It's in all Lightroom versions.
I wish Adobe Cam Raw or Lightroom gave a skin tone indicator like Da Vinci Resolve does
That would be awesome
@@f64Academy Blake can you write to them from your end suggesting so?
@@ayannandi1453 I don't think it would do any good. I'm just like everyone else to them. I don't have an 'in' at Adobe 😔
@@f64Academy I just hope someone from Adobe reads these...😁
How to download lightroom sir
www.adobe.com
Somehow I am unable to see the color calibration in Lightroom :(
I cant find this function on my lightroom, has anyone else had this issue?
It's in the Calibration tool set. Check and see if it is turned off by chance.
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I've only had one my whole life!
7.38 😂😂 next movie
Carl Rudis 4ever
Am i the only one not realizing, why this is better then the standard tools?
It's really about using what you already know plus this to get the most out of your color. It will make a difference when you experiment with it and use it with the standard tools.
hey u look like paul rudd
Haha! I'll take it! Another Kansas Citian 😁
is this app free ?
No it's Adobe camera raw or lightroom
:-) Is it only little people who use the calibration tool? LOL!!!
Yep... You and the rest of the Internet got jokes...
@@f64Academy Yep
Who even knew that camera calibration is popular with leprechauns?
They steal your lucky charms too
The described process has nothing to do with calibration. It's just playing with the sliders. Color calibration is a comparison of the selected color of the image and the color of the standard - e.g. X-rite colorchecker. The next step is adjustment, i.e. physical color correction to obtain the same color in the image compared to the reference color.
You are correct. I'm not using these tools for calibration. I'm using a tool that people WOULD use for Calibration as a way of enhancing the artistic expression. Instead of it being a technical tool it can be used for expressive color and it works very well for that.
Where's Uncle Grumpy? I see his pet eagle...
Don't see any benefitions comparing to other methods of increasing saturation or changing the hue of colors - especially that we often want to change skin color, not all the pixels from the photo
Experiment with it you'll see the difference over time. It's just a different approach. Why not use both and get the most out of your image?
o treaba n-ai, pr'etene
Voted DOWN because there is VERY Little to do with LightRoom, so it should NOT be in the title... sorry bro, let's be focused and not clickbate. It should be "5 Practical uses for color calibration in adobe camera raw and photoshop"
Lightroom and ACR are the same thing....
?? “Very little people??” Like in midgets? 😬
You know what I mean! Lol
franchement pas terrible et pas créatif. la première photo est gâchée et les jaunes piquent les yeux. on apprend rien avec cette video