Colour grading for dramatic portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 พ.ค. 2020
- In this session, portrait photographer Ivan Weiss walks you through a typical workflow for colour grading and adding texture to enhance a dramatic portrait using Affinity Photo.
Ivan will be available on Live Chat on TH-cam for this session’s premiere on Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 4pm BST.
Ivan also gives you access to a custom LUT and two custom colour and texture overlays that he uses in his session (for personal use only). These are available at: affin.co/LD2020IvanWeiss
As well as shooting full-time for private and corporate clients, Ivan teaches photography and mentors photographers looking to improve their work, their business and their understanding of portraiture. You can see his work on his website ivanweiss.london and his Instagram feed / ivanweiss.london .
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insane. thats literally a masterclass. ive learnt about 50 new things today and i can currently implement about 5 of them. baby steps etc.... thanks for your time Ivan.
Ha! It took me a while to get there. Watch it on replay and try them all out - see what works for you and then tweak it to your own tastes.
THIS!
Honestly so enlightening! Love watching you work and your explanations are tight and relatable. Stunning portraiture! Thank you, Ivan, for sharing & Affinity for publishing this series!
Absolutely awesome!! One of the best tutorials I've seen. Thank you so much Ivan Weiss and Serif! It inspires me to push myself and become better and better. These kinds of tutorials are like oxygen to me.
This is truly a photo editing gem! Not only because you know your craft so well but you also have the ability to step by step explain what your doing in the process to achieve a pleasing end result. And along the way you give us useful tips e.g how to avoid eye fatigue! Brilliant! Very well done and thank you very much!
Thanks, Günther. That's very kind of you to say so. I'm really glad so many people are finding this video useful.
I work with Ivan a lot and I've just learnt so much about what he does in 'post.' Incredible!
I'm a headshot photographer who is starting to dabble in table portraits, thanks to the inspirational work from Ivan. After watching this, I've now got the "bug" on learning how to hone in on a retouching style for these types of images. I'm a longtime user of another image editing application, but own Affinity Photo, Publisher, and Designer and have wanted to start making the switch to Photo (I've already gone full-time Publisher with my marketing materials, etc.) This is the swift kick I needed. Thank you for putting this brilliant photographer on your channel -- I look forward to many more of his contributions in the future. You certainly have a good ambassador in Ivan on board!
Thanks, Ian. Making the video was a great exercise for me. But it's been even greater to hear from people who've found it useful. And you've got the time now to switch your workflow before opening the studio up to clients again.
I first heard about Affinity from Ivan a few months ago and downloaded it. Now this color grading tutorial is exactly what I needed to get back on my original plan to upgrade my workflow. Thanks for the clear and generous insight.
I'm just an amateur but really enjoying this series so far. Thanks for doing it!
My brain is on overload!!! Really impressed. Thanks for sharing.
As a fellow commentor below said, "That's literally a masterclass." This is a tremendously helpful video that will walk you through (presumably the vast majority of) the post-processing done on a magnificent portrait using Affinity Photo. Thank you to Mr. Weiss and to Affinity for providing this outstanding content.
It's wonderful to get such great feedback. Thank you, Frederick.
Another awesome class! Keep 'em coming! These classes have truly left me wanting to further my education in graphic design and photography.
Thank you Ivan for a wonderful tutorial. This is definitely a watch several times tutorial for me. And thank you Serif for funding this May Lockdown 2020 project.
Coming to Affinity Photo as I did only a year or so ago, I have a great deal to learn. Every new bit of knowledge helps me along the way. So many useful tools you shared today, were especially helpful because you explained how you use them. I am very grateful. Beautiful finished portrait! Thank you for the texture downloads.
You're welcome, Tina!
Thank you so much Serif and Ivan for this content!!! I've learned a lot from this video!
This was absolutely amazing. Informative and well presented. We all need to reach out to affinity for more of these tutorials. It's simply outstanding.
Thank You
Glad you got something out of it, Gary. There's loads more to come on this channel this month.
I look forward to seeing them 👍👍
Well done, Ivan! Excellent tutorial and thank you for the downloads.
I don't even do photo editing in Affinity, but this was so well presented and informative that I've seen it in its entirety. Good work Ivan, and thanks for sharing! If these Affinity lockdown videos are all this good, we're in for a treat! Thanks!
Stay tuned! There's one of these every day for a whole month!
All these videos are brilliant. Thanks Affinity team!
Thank you Ivan, it's very generous of you to offer your time, and the file downloads. I can't wait to try out some of the ideas you presented!
Great, that's exactly the point. I want you all to go and make more great images.
Hello Ivan, thank you for sharing your workflow with us. I'm a beginner with Affinity Photo and impressed about the opportunities. Also thanks for your presents.
Once more, CONGRATULATIONS !!
Thanks Ivan and Serif. One of the best tutorials. It's good to see how the workflow of others are done.
Too kind, John.
Amazing work! Awesome inspiration to try something different. This series is great.
absolutely amazing work!!!
The best piece of Affinity Photo tutorial hands down! Well played! Thank you
Wow, thank you!
I loved this and learned so much! I am a big fan of Ivan’s work and it was great to see his workflow.
Thanks for watching, Cara!
Great work as always Ivan.
Wow! Yes…….I’ve learned a heap in there. Thank you.
Masterclass indeed. Thank you.
What beautiful colour grading, you are very clear and concise in the steps you took. Also great job on the self portrait.
Thanks! I tried to make it as clear as possible. And hopefully, with the download files, you can follow along and make something of your own.
I love that you didn’t mention the make of camera and lens you used, because they don’t matter.
It’s the focal length, aperture and lighting etc that matters.
And of course the editing software.
True artist at work!
So clear and easy to follow! Ivan, you’re an excellent educator. I hope you’ll be doing more!
Thanks, Lynda. There's loads more to come this month from other creatives using Affinity apps. I'd certainly like to do another one soon too.
What an excellent tutorial. Thank you.
I really enjoyed watching your workflow Ivan Weiss, thank you so much
My pleasure, Cindy!
Fantastic tutorial! Does anyone have a link to where Ivan got the 'Darks X for Adjustments and Filters?'. He mentions sourcing them from Affinity forums, but I can't seem to find them.
Thanks a lot Ivan. I learned a lot of new things and i found new ways to edit my images. That are small steps, but they are so effective... unbelivible. Thanks for the time you spend.
Glad to hear it, Uwe. I think it's those small tweaks that can take an image from being ok to being really engaging.
Wow, what a FANTASTIC tutorial. I learned so much. It really makes you think about how much work goes into making a shot look so great. I shall be playing around with these new skills in the future. I've already tried it out on a dog portrait, will try it on a self portrait now! THANK YOU!
Thanks, Nicola. Have fun with it!
Great content again. Looking forward to using these techniques.
This tutorial is brilliant! Thank you so much for all the information and the presets, Ivan.
My pleasure. Can't wait to see what you create with them.
Not just an excellent presentation of technique but someone who is very articulate and communicates well, thanks this is really useful.
Glad you appreciated it, John.
Excellent watch. Love the final result! Very painterly. Thanks so much
Cheers, Steve.
Fabulous, thank you so much Ivan, so well explained, I can’t wait to try this workflow out. Thanks too for the LUT and overlays. Keep safe and keep up the great work
Thanks for the encouragement, Adam!
Thank you for an amazing tutorial and demo
Beautifully explained and very concise, always to the point. Great teaching and advising. Thanks a lot!
Glad you found it useful, Gonzalo!
AP certainly offers a lot of options for editing. I just found this tutorial but have stored many links for tutorials created by a number of different creators related to AP. There are a few things that I find difficult related to the basic posing and lighting of the subject.
Getting rid of lighting first, I just find the large and strong specular highlight on the forehead to attract the eye that I don't find the mask of the face without searching. Another interesting thing to do with an image to see where the eye goes is to not only rotate from one side direction to the other but also turn the image upside down. Then also, close the eyes or if you have a print (I know, old technology) and quickly open the eyes and see where you look first. This is the easiest fix whereas the next two have to be done prior to shutter release.
First is the placement of the arms. To my eyesight the arms seem to be pulled toward the middle of the body creating a scrunched look to the subject and I do understand it is difficult to see this when doing a self portrait. When spread more, there is also some separation between the arms and the body.
Secondly, when closing the hand, it is nicer to have a view that the fingers do not appear to be amputated. When dealing with a subject which is not yourself, try using either hand and allow the fingers to flow showing more finger of each until the index finger is most prominent (don't do this with the middle finger lol) with a bend in the wrist and the hand on a 45 degree angle.
In the portrait here, the face is so incredible with the beard and the eyes are so penetrating, the image at the beginning of the video would be my selection of the cropping which also gets rid of the other issues.
Not many subjects of this quality come along once in a lifetime.
Hopefully someone might find this bit of info of value.
I will poke around and find more videos by you Ivan. TIA
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Thank you! That was amazing.
Brilliant! I learnt so much from this! Thanks, Ivan, and thanks Affinity.
Thanks for watching, James!
Fantastic tutorial!! Packed with incredible information, easy to follow and I really learned stuff I would never have figured out on my own. Thanks!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Beth!
thank you for such a detail explanation .... your awesome !
Fantastic tutorial by an amazing photographer and educator!
Thanks, Richard, Very kind of you to say so.
Great stuff, thanks Ivan.
awesome, learned so much in such a short time. thanks, Ivan and thanks heaps for the LUT and overlays as well
You're welcome, Mario. I know you're going to go and get creative with them. Check out the other videos coming every day this month.
Wonderfully done!
Ivan is a wizard! Thank you!
That's why I have a long beard.
Superb. Lots to think about, so much more involved then I thought. Lots of practice needed!
You can call it practice or call it play. I prefer play.
Love to see another like this, done from scratch. I'd also love to see your take on editing a colour portrait to a high contrast black and white portrait.
Really enjoyed this video. More of the same, PLEASE 😀
Outstanding...a piece of art. Thank u Ivan for sharing it! Also for the downloads.
My pleasure. Don't forget to check out my other videos on the Affinity channel.
Great info, and thanks for the LUT and other Texture files, gives us all something to learn and play with during lock down.
Great to hear that. I hope you get good use out of them.
Very educational and informative!
Thank you. fascinating insight into the work of a professional photographer. Learned a lot. Thanks also for downloads.
My pleasure, Russ. Hope you get good use out of them!
Couldn’t make it on time but did take a look at it later and it was a pleasure to see how you make this shot changes in a fantastic portrait. Thanks for this enjoyable way of learning. Compliments and thanks again, regards, Jos
Glad you enjoyed it, Jos!
Excellent tutorial. Your color grading is so amazing! Thanks!
Thank you, Judy!
Astonishing
Excellent presentation. Thanks.
Thank you for a wonderful tutorial. I see portraits like your edited version and am at a total loss to understand how to get there. This has been very helpful.
My camera club has an extra competition for this month where we download a raw portrait and edit it, then submit the edit into the comp. The original is a disaster, it's a landscape snapshot from a tropical holiday where the person is lit from behind by strong sunshine and the background is close, cluttered and dominant. Now that I've watched your video I'm starting to get some idea of how to edit it, although I can see a few more sessions watching you until I understand what it all does.
Thank you again. I'm enjoying these expert videos.
Good luck for the competition, Kim!
Awesome job Ivan! What a treat to learn from you 😊
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Thumbs up! I like your very relaxed way of explaining your workflow. Thank you!
Glad you found it useful!
Outstanding tutorial. Just amazing. Thank you.
Thanks, Edward. Be sure to grab the downloadable files and go create something!
Awesome man, thanks so much for the video, really enjoyed! :)
That was a great session. To the point. Well paced. Explained the why. Learnt a lot from this. Keep em coming. Ivan is really great at explaining. I wish he could cover more kinds of tuts like natural light street landscape etc that would be gold.
Regards
Best wishes, stay safe
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I'd certainly like to make some more!
Thanks. I like the LAB individual Curves Adjustment thing.
I should probably set that up as a macro now that I am using it often. You can of course keep them all in one layer adjustment if you don't individual control of opacity.
As a recent PSD absconder I'd like to thank you for confirming I made the right decision!
You won't regret it.
Ivan, it hardly needs saying at this point that your presentation was engaging, well-paced and informative. I think your willingness to share every step of the process and be open and honest about it makes this video unique. It also shows how secure you are as an artist. I’m relatively new to Affinity Photo but not new to photo editing but each piece of software has its own personality. After a year with AP, I’m still excited to launch it and see what it can do. One question about your choice of a grain overlay, I’m assuming you chose that route over adding a noise filter for aesthetic reasons? I suppose blending the grain layer and thus concealing the grain pattern will hide the fact that you probably use that same file for a lot of different portraits. Like using the same texture in many shots, I worry sometimes that the repetitiveness will be noticeable to viewers. Anyway, it’s refreshing to see someone of your caliber using and promoting Affinity Photo instead of the usual Photoshop endorsements. I encourage you to continue with these videos if you can find the time.
It's a good point. But I would suggest that anyone looking at a portrait and noticing the specific pattern of the texture overlay is missing the point entirely. If you are concerned, you can flip the layer horizontally and/or vertically. If you are cropping to 4:5, you can use different parts of the 2:3 file. And you can certainly create more overlays of your own.
Ha ha, yes, it is true. What I do is create a blank middle grey document in Affinity Photo, then import into Lightroom and create a set of grain textures with differing strengths, etc. I then export those files and use them as overlays. That way, I have an endless variety to choose from or just create new ones when needed. I guess my concern was related to textures with obvious patterns that come through the image, not so much grain overlays. But yes, there are creative ways to mix it up. Thanks for the reply.
..... now I need to go and take a self portrait also, I need to practice what I've just learned. Thanks!
Very good! I shared this tutorial with my photography group on Facebook.
Thanks for sharing, Henrik!
Wonderful - Thank You!
Thank you very much!
Really interseting and inspiring to watch, tha you so much for sharing.
My pleasure, Roger!
Great job! Thanks a lot!
Outstanding! Thank you very much.
My pleasure.
Brilliant - thank you
GREAT! Thank you!
Really enjoyed this, thank you!
Good to hear that. I enjoyed making it!
wow!!! THANKS
Thanks , that was really mega great. One question - does the "Dark 4" macro trick still work with AF 1.8.3 ? I had the rust coloured (Overlay 5a) level selected and applied the macro without effect, but manually setting the curve worked OK
Hi. I am using 1.8.3 and all those macros still work. If you are running into issues, try the Affinity users forum.
Grande!
Thanks that was great
This is all wonderful information! Please remember us beginners, I couldn't find that Assets part at the bottom right part of his screen nor could I find out how he was doing the Frequency Separation.
Of course, I am going to dig deeper into this so I can get the best out of these lessons. Amazing content, great programs.
Thank you, Affinity.
My apologies, Jules. View>Studio>Assets. You can place it wherever is most convenient for you. Note that you have to add your own assets, so only worth doing for things you use frequently. Alternatively, you can just drag and drop an image from your file browser. Frequency Separation can be found under Filters>Frequency Separation.
@@IvanWeiss-london I was not expecting the actual artist to reply to me! Thank you so much for you attention. This actually helped a ton.
@@JulesO My pleasure.
This was mindblowing. Great masterclass. I would love if you could share the link to download the macros you used.
forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/27214-luminosity-masks/&tab=comments#comment-132021
I cannot import LUTs from the Files source - they appear disabled (grey)
This is usually caused by another app registering .cube or .3dl files using a different "uniform identifier" (unfortunately there isn't a clear standard for these file types, so companies choose their own).
Really informative. What is the benefit of doing dodging/burning between the split frequency separation layers? Why not on layers above the high frequency layer?
I find that dodge/burn can affect the micro contrast and therefore you lose a bit of skin texture. So I like to do all my skin work under the high frequency layer.
@@IvanWeiss-london thanks for the reply
This is incredible. So much great information and the outcome is fantastic!
So do you bring your RAW image directly into Affinity or edit it in a program like LR or Capture One prior to bringing into Affinity Photo?
I use Canon DPP for tethering, DAM and RAW conversion. So my starting point in Affinity is a TIFF file.
Ivan Weiss thank you!
@@IvanWeiss-london Great tutorial. Thanks for this. Re the DAM, what are you using? As an amateur myself, i have been taking photos in Raw for ages, and using Aperture, which i really like. I have managed to find a way to use Aperture in Catalina, but at some point it will just stop working, i guess, So for myself, and i guess a number of others, could you let us know what DAM you are using?
Would that Serif could actually do an app for this, themselves! All linked into the rest of teh suite.
As someone once said, "I'd but THAT for a dollar!" Actually i'd certainly be prepared to pay full price for one!
@@timbeaton5045 I used to use Aperture. It was when Apple discontinued it that I went off searching and found Affinity. Currently I use Canon's DPP software for tethering, DAM and RAW conversion. I don't need a program to create catalogues/libraries for me - I use files and folders and let my OS do the hard work. That said, I would love an Affinity DAM :)
@@IvanWeiss-london Thanks for the reply, always good to see how the pros work, and what they do. Strictly amateur myself!
As i said, i managed to find an app that "Catalina-izes Aperture, which is great, as i have a library of thousands of photos i have taken over the years, as i do like the Library Raw functions all in one place, so to speak, so at least for the time being, i still have all that functionality.
Hopefully, Serif will eventually come up with their own DAM app that links in with their trinity of programs, but i guess they have had a lot on their plate!
Will definitely check out your website, as even for us dilettantes, there is always something to learn.
Do you have a link for the blend mode macros Dark1, Dark2, etc...
Ps. Amazing session!!!
Here you go: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/27214-luminosity-masks/&tab=comments#comment-132021
@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you very much!!!
Hi Ivan,
It was a great session, learned a lot. I liked the way you used the blend ranges and immediately after your presentation I tried it not for portrait but for flower macro photography. It opens lot of beautiful opportunities. Thank you so much. Cheers from Paris area. JP
Great! These techniques can be applied to anything.
And cheers from the (currently rather wet), Charente area!
@@timbeaton5045 I'm a big fan of your butter :)
@@IvanWeiss-london I am too, but merely a consumer!
Just had a quick gander at your site. There are those who suggest i need a headshot. However, i don't think they meant it in quite that way!
Great tutorial. Thank you
My pleasure, Tomasz!
Very good video. I just wish there would be an entire session just about LUTs and how to create them.
Have you tried this: affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Adjustments/export_3dLut.html?title=Exporting%20custom%20adjustments%20as%20LUTs
Oh wow, what a brilliant session on editing to a previsualised look. So much learning. Could you please share the link to from where you downloaded the 'Dark 3....' presets. Thanks again.
Thanks Affinity for bringing such awesome content.
Glad you enjoyed it, Shahid. You can find those macros (and others) on the Affinity forum here: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/27214-luminosity-masks/&tab=comments#comment-132021
Ivan Weiss Thank you so much. Loved your session.
I keep referring back to this video...
Hi Ivan, Excellent workflow with dramatic results! I really enjoyed today’s offering. Thanks for the downloads it will be great to put them into practice, are you willing to give access to the portrait of yourself you used in the tutorial to see how close I can get to your results or is that strictly off limits? Take care and keep safe! Regards, David.
Thanks, David. I don't release unfinished work. But I fully encourage you to shoot your own self portrait. It's a valuable experience for a number of reasons, not least to remind you of what it feels like to be on the other side of the camera.
Ivan Weiss I fully understand and thanks for taking the time to reply, enjoy your weekend