Great video, thanks Blake! Especially the gray scale example helps tremendously in explaining the blending and balancing of the tones. Modifier keys while working the color wheels: - Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) for fine control; - Command (Mac) / Control (Win) for maintaining constant saturation (a circle will show within the color wheel); - Shift for maintaining constant hue (a radius will show within the color wheel).
@@f64Academy No, really, it was amazing. I love the way you used the greyscale thing to illustrate what the controls do. It was so funny how you talked about people probably going in and playing with the colour wheel and then wondering why Adobe did that. I was EXACTLY like that and then got discouraged, hence my search for how to use the feature. So thank you!
I paused the video in between and commenting because I understood concept in first 4 minutes , your trick to explain the colour grading tool is mind blowing,
I discovered your channel yesterday. I am thrilled, thank you for investing your time to share your knowledge. I am thrilled, you have made color grading more understandable to me and for free! Thank you
Excellent tutorial for someone who is a tad more advanced in LR than me! I’m totally lost! Will work with this again when I’m at my computer and see what I can do. Thanks for your time making this video.
Others have said it but I'll say it anyway. Using the grayscale tone strip to demonstrate this tool made things much easier to visualise and understand. Well thought and well taught.
I am very selective when subscribing. You explain everything in a clear and calm way. At least not as over the top as many other TH-camrs, such as PM. That is fun sometimes, but it is forgotten that the other in Lightroom 🎞 tries to join (follow) 🎬 and that your mouse catches fire. With the mouse on fire 🖱⌨🔥🚒 the fun is over quickly. Stay yourself and I will remain a subscriber. You are a bigger TH-camr to me than he is with 5 million followers. 😉 And reviews that are really just push advertising videos, I don't think anyone is waiting for that. Except for the manufacturer who sent the item for free with the expectation that many unfortunate people will fall for it and buy themselves poorly on products that remain on the shelf. And we already have so much waste nowadays 😁. Thanks again and good luck. Keep it up 👏🏻
Thanks again Blake, another clear and concise tutorial, didn't even see the drop down menu under the circles, will have fun playing with this I'm sure.
The new colour grading tools look great. For someone who does more video than photos, it's going to be quite familiar. Now, all that's left is for Adobe to add in waveforms and vectorscopes.
I concur about color grading. Lately, I've been getting into IR (B&W) photography and I've noticed that adding some yellow to the mid-tone and blue to the highlights, when clouds are present, creates a better balanced image.
Finally, a step in the right direction for sure. Still not about to use it for grading, as I moved over to Resolve about 4 years ago. (Color Finale was so problematic, as it has so many non-linear interactions and weird Gamut issues, so I am sure Adobe has done it correctly). However, having some basic para-grading in Lightroom/ACR is awesome!
For sure! The important part is the RAW level editing. Baking things in at the RAW level is critical before moving to PS. This, while more of a finishing effect, can be used to help with tricky color casts too.
@@Touseef - I use a several different programs, the choice of which depending on what I am trying to do. When I do in studio work I generally use Capture One, as well as for many things that don’t require the ACR-Photoshop workflow, such as Lumenzia. I find C1’s tethering and overall live production workflow much more efficient. Also, the fact that in C1 I can cull and edit completely against raw rather than Adobe’s Melissa RGB rendered JPEG and derivative preview modes, allows me to work more fluidly and accurately. I use Lightroom for a lot of astro and landscape astro, as a product called LR Timelapse is very useful software for that, which requires Lightroom. For post production editing I’m fine with either Affinity or Adobe- it’s more a matter of what I am trying to do. However, for more complex color grading of stills I generally work with Capture One and 3D LUT Creator and sometimes in Blackmagic Resolve+Fusion, such as when it needs to integrate into an animated or video production.
Just watched your linear light D&B plus the colour grading tutorial, Fantastic many thanks. Could I challenge you to make a tutorial that I have never managed to accomplish. Remember seeing that lovely chromey skin effect in Black and White images, I would love to know how to do it, tried many times without success.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd have to see a picture, but it is also a very specific request. It may not be something I would do a video on, it really depends on the demand.
Another stellar tut. Thank you. The only issue I have with LR is you cant build layers, sure we can bring it into PS and go back and forth into ACR to achieve those goals, but it sure would be nice to do that in LR., like you can in Luminar., plus you have brushes in every module. Quite beneficial.
Color grading ... looks like a three color, Blake Rudis Gradient Map to me! But, on the grading circles, holding down the Alt key gives you finer control of the adjustments.
If you, made the stamp layer a Smart Object could you then when converting tour Stamp Layer into a Blend Mode, be able to modify the Blend Mode as well? Fantastic lesson Blake.
Hey Blake I think I may have found a significant difference between the LR and ACR versions of colour grading that makes the LR version superior. In LR when I am selecting a colour, I have the ability to sample a colour from the image I’m editing. So far I haven’t found that in ACR. Have I missed it somehow or is it in fact not a feature of the ACR version?
It's a long overdue addition to LR, but I'd still like to see an opacity slider, a skin tone protection option and a masking function for this Colour Grading Panel.
@@GabrielMisfire There were a few. I couldn't understand why there was no History panel, then I noticed there was a big bug with the Undo function where it would randomly stop working leaving me with no undo option whatsoever. C1 Support recognised it was a bug after I reported it but couldn't give a timeline for a fix. I found C1 incredibly slow on my setup, it was always churning away in the background doing something whereas LR has always run fine for me (Mac Pro). The fact that watermarks showed on images while you were editing them if you had an output option selected with a watermark made no sense. Whereas it was nice to have layers I found they were quite limiting in practise and fiddly to work with, plus you were only allowed one mask per layer. There were other issues, but I forget. I really wanted to like it and spent a couple of months using it non-stop, but in the end it became more trouble than it was worth.
another amazing video! question, is there possible to get/buy those PSD on which you are teaching Color Theory etc? so one could play with it on his own?
I am not using the cloud version of PS or LR and I am wondering if your plugin will work with the non-cloud versions of these applications. I have experimented with all the variants of producing B/W and I do agree that keeping the color as your control base does work quite well.
Thanks for the vid been using it for a month without knowing I had those little arrow to keep commanding the colors I was only using the circles I was desperate AHAH I'm having some troubles about color profiles. Do u have any idea about mismatch colors when exporting a picture from lightroom to photoshop ctrl e? Apart from choose of same profile and enables processor and graphic card. Have no idea how to do. Thanks for. Helping ❤️
Would you create a stamp visible layer in photoshop at the end of your workflow, convert to smart object and then use ACR for this colour grading? I have used that technique sometimes to cut time but I do know that it does not have the same amount of control as in photoshop.
It was a very useful lecture. It was intuitive and easy to understand. Is there a link to download the grayscale image file that you used in the video? It would be very useful to use when making ideas for color grading.
I am still using PS5.7 so do not have access to these tools, but apart from acting in the raw converter and convienience does this offer any advantage over creating 3 HSL adjustment layers in CS5 and using the select colour tool to create mask for highlights, midtones and shadows?
Great video. I never use ACR, only lightroom. My question is, what does this feature do that cant already be done with the HSL panel and the tone curve? Or is it just a different way to do the same thing?
It's very different. In a Curve you cant select a specific color for your tones very easily. In HSL you cant select a color for a Tone. this bridges both gaps.
Welp! Just as I thought I understood split-toning, they went and kicked it up a notch... or two. I thought that with split toning, you want to use colors opposite of each other on the color wheel, but now seeing the way you did that, I might be waffling more on my edits. Thanks for the tips, Blake. Hopefully it's only intimidating at first and will become easier with time.
It's not always colors opposite, sometimes yes that creates nice harmony. But that's like saying every photo needs the rule of this 😁 I'm not sure where you heard that but, I give you permission to experiment 😁
@@f64Academy Yeah. I get ya. Just depends on what you think works best for the scene. "Rules" of photography and other artforms are meant to be broken if it portrays what you like.
I really appreciate your wisdom here! Thanks a lot! I’m trying to create a colour palette and that gradient image you used was phenomenal! Is there a place I can download it from? Thanks in advance! Subscribed!
Really good video, if you're trying to explain this new feature in a simple to understand way, you definitely succeeded. Very impressed and I am now subscribed to your channel
This is included in my new camera RAW with Photoshop 2021. When you’re editing your image you can bring it into camera RAW at any time to use color grading or Lightroom if you’re more familiar with that. I never open Lightroom, I do everything in Photoshop.
Awesome video! I've been waiting patiently for this upgrade since they announced it! Question for you, what would be the difference between taking the shadows wheel in the colour grading section (without assigning a colour to it) and increasing the luminance VS using the shadows slider in the Basic module and increasing that?
@@f64Academy Right, but it can also be used to add luminosity in the shadows without adding colour, right? In that case, is it the same as sliding the shadow sliders? Same could be said of the highlights luminosity slider vs the highlight slider in the basic module.
Maybe you. could get to interview the personnel at adobe who worked on creating the Color Grading section, and find out what they discovered from its use that maybe you missed, if you missed anything at all, or they have some tricks for its use with other effects and tools?
It s not only in lightroom..it s in the camera raw filter so it s also in photoshop the same..i edit in photoshop and at the end i can press filter , camera raw and make the desired color grade adjustments..
@@Trace-x4e that's cool. But do they update it anymore? It may have been powerful at one point, but if they stopped updating it it's sick in a time capsule of technology. There are lots of amazing features in ACR and Lightroom now. It may be time to bury that time capsule 😁 I only say this because I know how my workflow has advanced because of it and I would like to see the same for you.
Blake, is there a way to save a color grading preset? I often split tone landscapes with a pretty standard value. Rather than have to recreate it on all three settings, How would i save it to simplify the workflow?
Used the new feature. Compared to CaptureOne this panel feels Clanky and hard to make small changes precisely. I have the same issue with curve tone panel. Difficult to use.
Shaul your experience is similar to mine. Capture One had these essential tools figured out years ago. Now, when finally Lightroom is doing something similar it is a “big deal”. I advise all Adobe users to broaden their views and have a look outside the Adobe-box for a change. Chances are you will find amazing tools that will improve on your creative processes! Right now, Adobe is lagging behind and is scrambling to catch up with all the development that is going on outside the Adobe universe. At the end of the day, Adobes biggest problem is that it sits on a platform of old code in all of their products core levels. Sooner or later they will have to rebuild everything from the ground up. Right now their products are become a messy patchwork that doesn’t make sense any more. I feel sorry for them! They are in deep trouble with their old products.
@@freetibet1000 you are absolutely right. LR feels for me so incomplete in some areas. Also there is so little positive we’ll thought of change. A pity. The core features and flow in LR is very good.
I would disagree Thomas, well, I agree in many respects to other products having advancements, but you have to look at it this way: (Please read this knowing that I do not work for Adobe, nor do they pay me a dime) 1. These programs have to have advancements in them or they'd be "just another Lightroom", you know. So I think its great they put these features out there, but how many more years does LR have on them. Its kinda like working in a body shop and this young kid comes in and does amazing work, but he's kind of flighty and works too quickly sometimes. But the older guys in the shop are reliable and do phenomenal work as well, they might just be a little slower as they've aged. But at the end of the day, the old guys get the job done and are reliable in the process. 2. Many RAW companies, and other software companies, I have worked with have spent so much time advancing the next thing, when the reality is, their foundation they are building it on was never solid to begin with. For instance, the RAW engine Adobe uses is some kind of secret code that only Adobe has. These other programs use a RAW engine that is built strictly on a contrast code and that doesn't always make the best images. So in my opinion many of these companies are advancing for the sake of progress and innovation, but they are doing it on broken RAW platforms to begin with. I will not mention these companies as I do not want to slander them, but I can tell when someone has edited an image in something other than Adobe. 3. Adobe doesn't always advance on the "surface". What I mean is, they are constantly looking at not only future advancements, but advancing things they already have. Their RAW editor and PS program see a lot of upgrades that they don't even mention, because to us, that's "old news". There have been tremendous advancements in ACR and Lightroom in the last two years. To say they are behind is not necessarily true, they are innovating, but at a deeper level.
@@f64Academy Thank you Blake for your reply (on my reply). I agree on many of your points and I think this channel may be the wrong one for me to be a little critical about Adobe on. I have an immense respect and admiration for your work and ability to utilize these tools. You have taught me a lot about colour-science and deeper ways of using digital tools such as Photoshop. You’re right about many other companies are trying to be the next Lightroom through the implementation of “candy” type of gimmicks on top of a weak bas structure. That I completely agree on. But there are also a group of developers that have very sound and modern platforms on which they are very consciously building effective and innovative tools for us creatives to use. As an old graphic designer and photographer I have been a heavy Adobe user since the beginning of both Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom. So much so that I sometimes wonder if it hasn’t damaged my DNA even, ha ha! Anyway, being someone that live and breathe creativity I do know when it’s necessary to break up old relationships and move on. To get stuck in the old rut is detrimental to my way of working creatively. Sometimes new tools can open new doors and creative process becomes rejuvenated again. That’s the way I look at the digital graphic market on a whole, and I see no reason to stay “loyal” to the old tools I’ve been using in the past. I’m not sentimental in that way. Creativity is for me to stay young and try new things and not being the old guy in the body shop at all. Sure, we have Adobe to thank for so much and I’m very grateful for the years past but it will come a time when that big elephant will have to reinvent itself, or die. It doesn’t mean anything to me if the raw-engine is of a special magical kind if it doesn’t put superior kind of tools in my hands to utilize. And I haven’t managed to see that from a lot of graphic and photographic work the past 30 years. On the contrary in fact, I ran both Lightroom and Apple Aperture parallel during their infant stages all the way up until Apple decided to ditch further development of Aperture. Then I was left with Lightroom for a few years until I happened to try Capture One for the first time. I was immediately blown away by the differences I saw in the way C1 handled my Nikon raw files compared to what I managed to get out of Lightroom with the same files. So, what magic is going on under the hood is of no consequence to me as long as I’m getting tools that can get me to a result that I enjoy and like. That rarely happened in my relationship with Lightroom! A discussion on the topic of Photoshop is a different cup of tea all together. Maybe that’s for another day though? I love your work and service you provide for us enthusiasts Blake and I hope you’ll continue for a long time. The discussion on where the collective digital tool-shed is heading is an interesting one, for sure! And I would like for Adobe to reinvent itself and become an interesting option once again. (And I’m not talking about AI as the magic pill that will bring all youth back!)
Nope, very advanced. The addition of Blending and the Midtones, as well as an overall Master color grade make this a force to be reckoned with. Split Toning was kindergarten compared to this college level color grading :)
@@f64Academy It appears very difficult to repeat, using the color circles rather than sliders. It’s almost as though this would require either extreme skill or serendipity getting exactly what you want, much less repeating it without a preset.
@@LtDeadeye I highly recommend watching a video on colour grading - it's a whole new world! Look at Joanna Kustra's recent video - long but a brilliant introduction
They should have ported over from your old one. If not right click inside the presets area and select import presets, then navigate to where those presets are on your computer that you initially downloaded.
The explanation using a gray scale image was a great explanation, and very helpful to understanding all of the features.
Thanks! Glad it helped!
Great video, thanks Blake! Especially the gray scale example helps tremendously in explaining the blending and balancing of the tones.
Modifier keys while working the color wheels:
- Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) for fine control;
- Command (Mac) / Control (Win) for maintaining constant saturation (a circle will show within the color wheel);
- Shift for maintaining constant hue (a radius will show within the color wheel).
Omg....this totally demystified the new upgrade on camera raw. Clear and concise explanation very easy for me to understand. Thank you 😊
😁 so glad I could help
Fantastic video. Very well explained. very well done. A Lot of information for a new guy. I'm watching this for the third time. Thank you...
Jesus FINALLY! The first person to actually discuss this in a video!
Glad I could help!
@@f64Academy No, really, it was amazing. I love the way you used the greyscale thing to illustrate what the controls do. It was so funny how you talked about people probably going in and playing with the colour wheel and then wondering why Adobe did that. I was EXACTLY like that and then got discouraged, hence my search for how to use the feature. So thank you!
I paused the video in between and commenting because I understood concept in first 4 minutes , your trick to explain the colour grading tool is mind blowing,
😎 thanks so much, it means a lot to me!
Super useful explanation, particularly of the global adjustment.
Thanks for going into this new Color Grading feature in depth Blake. I can now see the possibilities for its use.
It's very slick!
I discovered your channel yesterday. I am thrilled, thank you for investing your time to share your knowledge. I am thrilled, you have made color grading more understandable to me and for free! Thank you
Awesome 😎 so glad you found my channel!
Now I need a lot of time to watch all your videos, thank you!
Best regards from Germany
Using the grayscale to show the effects - so simple and so clear - great job!
Thanks!
You made this super easy to understand and I love how you tell your keystrokes as you're doing the actions, really helps me learn!
Glad it helped!
Excellent tutorial for someone who is a tad more advanced in LR than me! I’m totally lost! Will work with this again when I’m at my computer and see what I can do. Thanks for your time making this video.
You are an outstanding teacher!
Thank you so very much. I really appreciate you!
Brilliantly made video, thank you
Even for someone used to this in Davinci Resolve, the explanation was incredible. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
Thank you for the great explanation. The gray scale image made it absolutely apprehensible.
😁perfect!
Others have said it but I'll say it anyway. Using the grayscale tone strip to demonstrate this tool made things much easier to visualise and understand. Well thought and well taught.
Thanks so much 😁 I had fun with this one!
Demonstrating color wheels with a grayscale image is a great idea. very helpful for bigginers.
Best way to learn.
Really cool to see it not only in Lr & ACR, but also Lr for mobile!
Nice!
Thanks for your explanation of color grading as I am new to it and had just figured out how to use the split toning. I'm so excited to start using it!
I love your enthusiasm!
I waited for you to come out with your explanation, knowing you'd break it down and show what's really going on with it. Thanks.
Awesome! My pleasure!
I've watched a few videos thus far and yours is the best in breaking it down, especially with the portrait image. Very nice!
Awesome thanks so much!
I am very selective when subscribing. You explain everything in a clear and calm way. At least not as over the top as many other TH-camrs, such as PM. That is fun sometimes, but it is forgotten that the other in Lightroom 🎞 tries to join (follow) 🎬 and that your mouse catches fire. With the mouse on fire 🖱⌨🔥🚒 the fun is over quickly. Stay yourself and I will remain a subscriber. You are a bigger TH-camr to me than he is with 5 million followers. 😉 And reviews that are really just push advertising videos, I don't think anyone is waiting for that. Except for the manufacturer who sent the item for free with the expectation that many unfortunate people will fall for it and buy themselves poorly on products that remain on the shelf. And we already have so much waste nowadays 😁. Thanks again and good luck. Keep it up 👏🏻
Thanks 😉will do. I've been keeping it genuine for 10 years. Not about to stop now 😁
Outstanding tutorial! Thank you for breaking it down and making the update easy to understand for me!
Just glad I can help!
Thanks again Blake, another clear and concise tutorial, didn't even see the drop down menu under the circles, will have fun playing with this I'm sure.
Awesome! Glad you liked it 😁
Cool thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
I subscribed halfway the video! Nice!
Sweet thanks!
Very very good explanation. You couldn’t have been clearer.
Thanks!
This was very helpful, you explained it well for the way I learn
Awesome! Glad I could help!
Easy-to-follow explanation. thank you!
My pleasure 😁
Thanks for keeping us out in front on this with training. Not just a blurb on check out this new feature.
Thanks! This is exciting! Love this one and now moving onto other ones.
Thanks, hidden triangle in Color Grading is a fantastic find!!
For real! It's hidden
Thanks Blake, the color expert on the web!
Thanks so much 😁 I'll gladly accept that title!
I watch a lot of these reviews on this and this one is the best by far. Thank you for a very detailed review.
Awesome! Thanks so much 😁
Very helpful, thank you!
Pleasure!
so clear,so easy.awsome.thank you
You're welcome 😊
This is super helpful! Thank you!
Excellent tutorial Blake and thanks for getting this out so quickly.
My pleasure!
The new colour grading tools look great. For someone who does more video than photos, it's going to be quite familiar.
Now, all that's left is for Adobe to add in waveforms and vectorscopes.
That would be awesome!
the warmth color graded portrait picture looks really cool - (:
Great tutorial Blake! 😀👍🙏🥰
Thank you!
I concur about color grading. Lately, I've been getting into IR (B&W) photography and I've noticed that adding some yellow to the mid-tone and blue to the highlights, when clouds are present, creates a better balanced image.
Nicely explained. Thank you!
My pleasure!
You’re great mate, tks a mil!
No problem 👍
After a long time! Find a Good Teacher
Love from Pakistan :)
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
@@f64Academy Your Welcome 😉
Awesome Video thanks for putting it together.
It was my pleasure!
Great tutorial Blake! I'm looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the in-depth on new features we need to know about!
You bet! More coming!
Great explanation - subbed!
Thanks 😁
Excellent video, thank you!
My pleasure!
Que buen video gracias por la información, buena energía.
Amazing，thanks for the video
My pleasure!
This is the best explained video, well done. Thank you
Wow 😁 thank you!
Finally, a step in the right direction for sure. Still not about to use it for grading, as I moved over to Resolve about 4 years ago. (Color Finale was so problematic, as it has so many non-linear interactions and weird Gamut issues, so I am sure Adobe has done it correctly).
However, having some basic para-grading in Lightroom/ACR is awesome!
For sure! The important part is the RAW level editing. Baking things in at the RAW level is critical before moving to PS. This, while more of a finishing effect, can be used to help with tricky color casts too.
u edit photos in resolve as well ??
@@Touseef - I use a several different programs, the choice of which depending on what I am trying to do. When I do in studio work I generally use Capture One, as well as for many things that don’t require the ACR-Photoshop workflow, such as Lumenzia. I find C1’s tethering and overall live production workflow much more efficient. Also, the fact that in C1 I can cull and edit completely against raw rather than Adobe’s Melissa RGB rendered JPEG and derivative preview modes, allows me to work more fluidly and accurately.
I use Lightroom for a lot of astro and landscape astro, as a product called LR Timelapse is very useful software for that, which requires Lightroom.
For post production editing I’m fine with either Affinity or Adobe- it’s more a matter of what I am trying to do. However, for more complex color grading of stills I generally work with Capture One and 3D LUT Creator and sometimes in Blackmagic Resolve+Fusion, such as when it needs to integrate into an animated or video production.
Just watched your linear light D&B plus the colour grading tutorial, Fantastic many thanks.
Could I challenge you to make a tutorial that I have never managed to accomplish. Remember seeing that lovely chromey skin effect in Black and White images, I would love to know how to do it, tried many times without success.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd have to see a picture, but it is also a very specific request. It may not be something I would do a video on, it really depends on the demand.
Great, great explanation of this feature! Thanks!
My pleasure!
Another stellar tut. Thank you. The only issue I have with LR is you cant build layers, sure we can bring it into PS and go back and forth into ACR to achieve those goals, but it sure would be nice to do that in LR., like you can in Luminar., plus you have brushes in every module. Quite beneficial.
Thanks! Great explanation.
My pleasure!
Capture One had this for so long, it was one of the reasons I left LR to it, wish there was a phone app tho, glad LR updated it
Blake, thanks for explaining the new grading tools. Where is a good spot to learn the concept/theory of color grading?
I have an entire 10 hour course on it I can direct you to. Blake@f64academy.con
@@f64Academy Blake, I would be interested in checking that out. Is it on your website?
Color grading ... looks like a three color, Blake Rudis Gradient Map to me! But, on the grading circles, holding down the Alt key gives you finer control of the adjustments.
🤣 thanks for the tip.
Awesome explanation!
Thanks, Matt!
Now i can use this feature easily in lightroom mobile..... thnx
😁
Very lovely sir
Thanks 😉
If you, made the stamp layer a Smart Object could you then when converting tour Stamp Layer into a Blend Mode, be able to modify the Blend Mode as well? Fantastic lesson Blake.
Hey Blake I think I may have found a significant difference between the LR and ACR versions of colour grading that makes the LR version superior. In LR when I am selecting a colour, I have the ability to sample a colour from the image I’m editing. So far I haven’t found that in ACR. Have I missed it somehow or is it in fact not a feature of the ACR version?
It's not in ACR 😞 that would be kind of nice.
It's a long overdue addition to LR, but I'd still like to see an opacity slider, a skin tone protection option and a masking function for this Colour Grading Panel.
So basically you want Capture One 😬
@@GabrielMisfire Nope, I've already fallen for that mistake and came back to LR. Too many issues with C1 that I just can't live with.
@@DaveBowman I feel you, I really can't stand the waxy skin I get out of Capture One - what issues did you run into?
@@GabrielMisfire There were a few. I couldn't understand why there was no History panel, then I noticed there was a big bug with the Undo function where it would randomly stop working leaving me with no undo option whatsoever. C1 Support recognised it was a bug after I reported it but couldn't give a timeline for a fix. I found C1 incredibly slow on my setup, it was always churning away in the background doing something whereas LR has always run fine for me (Mac Pro). The fact that watermarks showed on images while you were editing them if you had an output option selected with a watermark made no sense. Whereas it was nice to have layers I found they were quite limiting in practise and fiddly to work with, plus you were only allowed one mask per layer. There were other issues, but I forget. I really wanted to like it and spent a couple of months using it non-stop, but in the end it became more trouble than it was worth.
@MartinoDostoievsky 😂😂😂
another amazing video! question, is there possible to get/buy those PSD on which you are teaching Color Theory etc? so one could play with it on his own?
I am not using the cloud version of PS or LR and I am wondering if your plugin will work with the non-cloud versions of these applications. I have experimented with all the variants of producing B/W and I do agree that keeping the color as your control base does work quite well.
If you are referring to CS6 or earlier, no. Only CC.
Awesome
Thanks for the vid been using it for a month without knowing I had those little arrow to keep commanding the colors I was only using the circles I was desperate AHAH
I'm having some troubles about color profiles. Do u have any idea about mismatch colors when exporting a picture from lightroom to photoshop ctrl e? Apart from choose of same profile and enables processor and graphic card. Have no idea how to do.
Thanks for. Helping ❤️
Glad I could help! I don't know a whole lot about that as I don't experience any issues with color going from ACR to PS.
Would you create a stamp visible layer in photoshop at the end of your workflow, convert to smart object and then use ACR for this colour grading? I have used that technique sometimes to cut time but I do know that it does not have the same amount of control as in photoshop.
You could, but if I'm in PS already I'd color grade in PS with my Palette Effects Panel or gradients it gradient maps, etc
It was a very useful lecture. It was intuitive and easy to understand. Is there a link to download the grayscale image file that you used in the video? It would be very useful to use when making ideas for color grading.
you can also move the outside small circle to avoid messing with your saturation
I am still using PS5.7 so do not have access to these tools, but apart from acting in the raw converter and convienience does this offer any advantage over creating 3 HSL adjustment layers in CS5 and using the select colour tool to create mask for highlights, midtones and shadows?
That would probably give you more control than this
great tutorial F64 the US version is different from the OZ version ??
I have no idea, sorry
Could you please provide the image of the Zones? Awesome for figuring out how the color grading works.
I offer it in my paid courses. You can make it with gradients.
Great video. I never use ACR, only lightroom. My question is, what does this feature do that cant already be done with the HSL panel and the tone curve? Or is it just a different way to do the same thing?
It's very different. In a Curve you cant select a specific color for your tones very easily. In HSL you cant select a color for a Tone. this bridges both gaps.
Welp! Just as I thought I understood split-toning, they went and kicked it up a notch... or two. I thought that with split toning, you want to use colors opposite of each other on the color wheel, but now seeing the way you did that, I might be waffling more on my edits.
Thanks for the tips, Blake. Hopefully it's only intimidating at first and will become easier with time.
It's not always colors opposite, sometimes yes that creates nice harmony. But that's like saying every photo needs the rule of this 😁 I'm not sure where you heard that but, I give you permission to experiment 😁
@@f64Academy Yeah. I get ya. Just depends on what you think works best for the scene. "Rules" of photography and other artforms are meant to be broken if it portrays what you like.
I really appreciate your wisdom here! Thanks a lot! I’m trying to create a colour palette and that gradient image you used was phenomenal! Is there a place I can download it from? Thanks in advance! Subscribed!
I typically use these on my end only. They are kinda my base for doing my experiments so I don't always share them.
@@f64Academy I understand
Really good video, if you're trying to explain this new feature in a simple to understand way, you definitely succeeded. Very impressed and I am now subscribed to your channel
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for subscribing :)
This is included in my new camera RAW with Photoshop 2021. When you’re editing your image you can bring it into camera RAW at any time to use color grading or Lightroom if you’re more familiar with that. I never open Lightroom, I do everything in Photoshop.
Awesome video! I've been waiting patiently for this upgrade since they announced it! Question for you, what would be the difference between taking the shadows wheel in the colour grading section (without assigning a colour to it) and increasing the luminance VS using the shadows slider in the Basic module and increasing that?
This increases the luminance while adding color, that the big difference. This is an incredible update, I'm like a kid in a candy store.
@@f64Academy Right, but it can also be used to add luminosity in the shadows without adding colour, right? In that case, is it the same as sliding the shadow sliders? Same could be said of the highlights luminosity slider vs the highlight slider in the basic module.
Yes, possibly. I'd run experiments to find out.
Maybe you. could get to interview the personnel at adobe who worked on creating the Color Grading section, and find out what they discovered from its use that maybe you missed, if you missed anything at all, or they have some tricks for its use with other effects and tools?
I don't think I missed anything... But an interview with Adobe would be next to impossible for me, haha, they know me about as well as they know you.
Acr is getting stronger.
Certainly is!
It s not only in lightroom..it s in the camera raw filter so it s also in photoshop the same..i edit in photoshop and at the end i can press filter , camera raw and make the desired color grade adjustments..
Aperture had this feature since 2005. 😉
Good for Aperture (which is now non existent) ;) It's now in LR and ACR.
@@f64Academy Aperture still exists… for those of us still rocking it! 😉
@@Trace-x4e that's cool. But do they update it anymore? It may have been powerful at one point, but if they stopped updating it it's sick in a time capsule of technology. There are lots of amazing features in ACR and Lightroom now. It may be time to bury that time capsule 😁 I only say this because I know how my workflow has advanced because of it and I would like to see the same for you.
cool
I know right!
Blake, is there a way to save a color grading preset? I often split tone landscapes with a pretty standard value. Rather than have to recreate it on all three settings, How would i save it to simplify the workflow?
Yes you can save it just like any other presets.
Used the new feature. Compared to CaptureOne this panel feels Clanky and hard to make small changes precisely. I have the same issue with curve tone panel. Difficult to use.
Shaul your experience is similar to mine. Capture One had these essential tools figured out years ago. Now, when finally Lightroom is doing something similar it is a “big deal”. I advise all Adobe users to broaden their views and have a look outside the Adobe-box for a change. Chances are you will find amazing tools that will improve on your creative processes! Right now, Adobe is lagging behind and is scrambling to catch up with all the development that is going on outside the Adobe universe. At the end of the day, Adobes biggest problem is that it sits on a platform of old code in all of their products core levels. Sooner or later they will have to rebuild everything from the ground up. Right now their products are become a messy patchwork that doesn’t make sense any more. I feel sorry for them! They are in deep trouble with their old products.
@@freetibet1000 you are absolutely right. LR feels for me so incomplete in some areas. Also there is so little positive we’ll thought of change. A pity. The core features and flow in LR is very good.
I would disagree Thomas, well, I agree in many respects to other products having advancements, but you have to look at it this way:
(Please read this knowing that I do not work for Adobe, nor do they pay me a dime)
1. These programs have to have advancements in them or they'd be "just another Lightroom", you know. So I think its great they put these features out there, but how many more years does LR have on them. Its kinda like working in a body shop and this young kid comes in and does amazing work, but he's kind of flighty and works too quickly sometimes. But the older guys in the shop are reliable and do phenomenal work as well, they might just be a little slower as they've aged. But at the end of the day, the old guys get the job done and are reliable in the process.
2. Many RAW companies, and other software companies, I have worked with have spent so much time advancing the next thing, when the reality is, their foundation they are building it on was never solid to begin with. For instance, the RAW engine Adobe uses is some kind of secret code that only Adobe has. These other programs use a RAW engine that is built strictly on a contrast code and that doesn't always make the best images. So in my opinion many of these companies are advancing for the sake of progress and innovation, but they are doing it on broken RAW platforms to begin with. I will not mention these companies as I do not want to slander them, but I can tell when someone has edited an image in something other than Adobe.
3. Adobe doesn't always advance on the "surface". What I mean is, they are constantly looking at not only future advancements, but advancing things they already have. Their RAW editor and PS program see a lot of upgrades that they don't even mention, because to us, that's "old news". There have been tremendous advancements in ACR and Lightroom in the last two years. To say they are behind is not necessarily true, they are innovating, but at a deeper level.
@@f64Academy Thank you Blake for your reply (on my reply). I agree on many of your points and I think this channel may be the wrong one for me to be a little critical about Adobe on. I have an immense respect and admiration for your work and ability to utilize these tools. You have taught me a lot about colour-science and deeper ways of using digital tools such as Photoshop. You’re right about many other companies are trying to be the next Lightroom through the implementation of “candy” type of gimmicks on top of a weak bas structure. That I completely agree on. But there are also a group of developers that have very sound and modern platforms on which they are very consciously building effective and innovative tools for us creatives to use. As an old graphic designer and photographer I have been a heavy Adobe user since the beginning of both Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom. So much so that I sometimes wonder if it hasn’t damaged my DNA even, ha ha! Anyway, being someone that live and breathe creativity I do know when it’s necessary to break up old relationships and move on. To get stuck in the old rut is detrimental to my way of working creatively. Sometimes new tools can open new doors and creative process becomes rejuvenated again. That’s the way I look at the digital graphic market on a whole, and I see no reason to stay “loyal” to the old tools I’ve been using in the past. I’m not sentimental in that way. Creativity is for me to stay young and try new things and not being the old guy in the body shop at all. Sure, we have Adobe to thank for so much and I’m very grateful for the years past but it will come a time when that big elephant will have to reinvent itself, or die. It doesn’t mean anything to me if the raw-engine is of a special magical kind if it doesn’t put superior kind of tools in my hands to utilize. And I haven’t managed to see that from a lot of graphic and photographic work the past 30 years. On the contrary in fact, I ran both Lightroom and Apple Aperture parallel during their infant stages all the way up until Apple decided to ditch further development of Aperture. Then I was left with Lightroom for a few years until I happened to try Capture One for the first time. I was immediately blown away by the differences I saw in the way C1 handled my Nikon raw files compared to what I managed to get out of Lightroom with the same files. So, what magic is going on under the hood is of no consequence to me as long as I’m getting tools that can get me to a result that I enjoy and like. That rarely happened in my relationship with Lightroom! A discussion on the topic of Photoshop is a different cup of tea all together. Maybe that’s for another day though? I love your work and service you provide for us enthusiasts Blake and I hope you’ll continue for a long time. The discussion on where the collective digital tool-shed is heading is an interesting one, for sure! And I would like for Adobe to reinvent itself and become an interesting option once again. (And I’m not talking about AI as the magic pill that will bring all youth back!)
@@f64Academy I am sure all companies have secret code that nobody else has.
Will my old acr presets with split toning still work ??
Yes! They still work.
Is this essentially advanced split toning? But I feel like we can do almost the same thing with current split toning. No?
Nope, very advanced. The addition of Blending and the Midtones, as well as an overall Master color grade make this a force to be reckoned with. Split Toning was kindergarten compared to this college level color grading :)
@@f64Academy It appears very difficult to repeat, using the color circles rather than sliders. It’s almost as though this would require either extreme skill or serendipity getting exactly what you want, much less repeating it without a preset.
@@LtDeadeye I highly recommend watching a video on colour grading - it's a whole new world! Look at Joanna Kustra's recent video - long but a brilliant introduction
Can the Filmstrip orientation be changed in Lightroom Classic ...I cannot find the option :(
Not sure 😶 I don't use Lightroom
My head feels like it’s going to explode 🤯
That's a good thing 😁
I don’t think that grade was putrid at all! I liked it artistically, it was like a lofi 80s vibe track art style. Which I like the visuals of!
Art, love it's subjectivity 😁
maybe you lost your taste cause of coronavirus
Stanislav Rico ahhhh nice
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Good choice :) You rock!
Hi! do you know how to import old preset into camera raw 13.0 ? Thanks!
They should have ported over from your old one. If not right click inside the presets area and select import presets, then navigate to where those presets are on your computer that you initially downloaded.
@@f64Academy thanks, but when i found my folder, the preset are grey and i can't upload in to camera raw. Do you know if this is a bug?
Can you save a particular "grade" as a LUT?
No, but you can as a preset.
When does this come out or did it already come out?
Already out. Look in your CC app for updates.
Jeah, I did the first like whoop whoop
Good stuff!
How do I get to open the color grade at the top right?
you dont, that was me expanding it in the video so you could see what I was doing better :)
@@f64Academy ok, that makes sense now. Excellent video, very informative! Thank you.