Advanced Color Correction & White Balance in Photoshop CC
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to take a deep, hard look at color correction and adjusting white balance in your photos to get amazing color and richness of tones as they should look out of your camera. Whether you’re working with RAW files or JPEGs, it really doesn’t matter, we’re going to cover FIVE different techniques that will get you started on the path to knowing what you’re doing when adjusting the color balance and getting beautiful color in your photographs. We’ll cover how to get accurate color and how to experiment and take some creative freedoms with the colors in your photo to get professional and stunning results!
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00:48 Curves adjustment eyedroppers
01:45 Method #1: Difference layer & finding the true gray point
03:51 Method #2: Camera RAW Filter White Balance tool
05:41 Method #3: Advanced skin color formula
10:27 Skin tones for a black/african subject
14:41 Method #4: Using Hue/Sat adjustment layer
15:38 Method #5: Manual color adjustment via Curves for color correction
17:45 Overview of the five techniques
18:38 “Get it, got it, Goood.” Sound drop
I think it's a bit of a tick when I'm on camera. I've noticed it in editing and am trying to find a better mic position where it's natural/I don't adjust it every THREE FREAKING SECONDS, haha 😂
I'll double check the joints too though. Thanks for the comment 👍
Nice
I've been a photographer and webmaster for over 20 years. I also have a voice & face for radio, lol! I have to say, this tutorial has been extremely helpful!
I do a lot of studio and natural light portraiture and often struggle with consistent skin tone. This video was a tremendous help. I revised some of my recent raw images out of my Nikon D800 and readjusted based on your ratios chart and it really improved them.
Not many of mine are of black skin but your results in the tutorial image looked beautiful. I always found black skin, even when appropriately underexposing is so unpredictable in getting a natural tone. Thank you very much for your excellent tips.
That's amazing! Glad you really like video. 👍
*I've used this technique MANY times now on loads of different photos, and it only works about 50% of the time!*
*More often than not, it fucks everything up!*
Exactly my experience!
Dude! THANK YOU!!!! I tried other tuts and they weren't working, the first method you teached worked!!! Perfect for those of us using older versions of PS! Thank youuuuuuuuuu!
By far one of the most beneficial tutorials I have ever watched for skin tones and white balancing. Helped me out immensely. Thank you!
I second Rok - this video is GOLD. advanced is a good title. I have moved my way up to an advanced beginner photoshop user and this is one powerful set of tools. that first way of 50% gray is awesome as are the skin adjustments. Thanks for the info.
thank you I just start watching your tutorial while I apply in photoshop and got great results.
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
have to say I love Lightroom but am getting into Photoshop more so with help from you. This tutorial on color correction & white balance has helped so much with the understanding of how to manipulate the image to proper levels using Photoshop. So thank you for making Photoshop understandable, not going to lie but I have been fairly overwhelmed with the extent of possibilities through tools and shortcuts and methods.
Love it. Thanks so much! 👍
Dude. I've been using Photoshop since I was a teenager in the mid 90s, and you have taught me an amazing trick for color correction in 10 seconds. Blown away.
Too late for me to run my computer but tomorrow morning I am rocking in my Photoshop!!! Thaaanks!
Wow you completely changed my editing game....I would love to share with you my before (already edited photo) and after (on already edited photo but using your techniques).....IT COMPLETELY CHANGED THE PHOTO AND MADE IT A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER. omg omg omg.
The most useful and clever tut ever seen, this is gold, thank you
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for showing me the best ever ways that will definitely improves my colour correction level. I love Photoshop, but I am still learning it. This is one of the very best and comprehensive tutorials that I have ever watched on You Tube... Thank you so much Tutvid... Regards Darya Said
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video! 👌
Fantastic tutorial, do I have set the threshold to 20 if a substantial amount of black starts to appear before I hit 20?
Fantastic tutorial! I picked up more useful tips in this than any other video I've watched :-)Thank you so much
Thank you! all 5 tips are more than "simple" tips! they're a handy tool!
very smart way to color correction . thanks alot buddy
Excellent. Extremely helpful. Second time this year you've completely blown my mind with something.
That's awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. I made an entire action based on each technique. Thank you so much. This is so helpful
This is a great tutorial on setting white balance. Thank you !!
Thank you this video helped a lot. I would like to know if you have any video on noise reduction.
Was baked while watching this and that "down down down" part tripped me tf out.
love the part about white balancing using grey and threshold... learnt something new...
That's really great! Glad you enjoyed it!
Only works if you are lucky enough to have gray in a photo
SOB!!! THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER! U SAVED ME FROM A CLIENT!
Another amazing tutorial. Thank you
I wish it was that simple with video. I guess we could use a screenshot, correct then make it a LUt
Love me some good LUT action!
he he he...
Thanks. Great tut! You made a tough subject easy.
Instant subscriber! Thanks for scharing your knowledge with us. Really appreciatie you going in depth on the subject so i can understand why i do what i do. In stead of copying your instructions
This is a lifesaver! Thanks for another a very useful video.
this was so much easier than other methods. thanks
I like it very much. Especially the method No. 3. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic tut. What size monitor are you using?
You are a God!... you are so right not much photographers talk about the race relevancy... I would be honored to sign up for your course... thank you so much for this!!!!
Using a colorful checker after the shot can avoid that work with colors in pos-processing? tks...great video
Cool video, very easy to understand even for a newbie like me. I want to learn some Photoshop(and other Adobe programas) to boost my CV a little and see if I really like all this image/video editing.
Thanks!
Amazing. The advanced stuff I was looking for
really awesome tutorial !!
I'm thankfull for you for my life time to learn such an important concept.....
You are just Amazing.....
Really appreciate the kind words! 👍
This channel has solved many of my problems. Huge thanks!
Thanks! 🍻
FANTASTICO!!!!! great tutorial, you are clear, and very didactic!!!
Thank you!
Cool stuff. I really enjoyed the tutorial... I much appreciate your time and effort that you put together to help others to learn from professionals like you. Cheers
This is very useful, thank you!
Very useful and appreciable.Thanks
Thank you dear Tutvid for the Skin Formula 👼💕 I will use it well and now to find the Grey PoinT is Easy !!! Merci 😁😊💃👼💕🐉💞🐾🐬
Thank you! 👌
tutvid and using your instuctions already and I did improved my postprocess thanks to you dear TuTViD !!! Thank you a Milion and One 💋💃🍸😏💕👼🐉
Really excellent tutorial. Really useful. Thanks a lot.
Thank you! 👌
Late to the show here, but this was perfect. I do NOT think you go too fast. Everyone else is just too damn slow!! Any tutorials on how to match the color from one photo to another (without using the cheat "match color" option)? I could swear there is a way to do it with channels...
Thank you so much, Andrea! I have a video I did on matching exact colors that might be helpful. Check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/eR-A9Y4qhFw/v-deo.html
hi, terrific video, it helped me a lot
the only problem i have is that my background (a beach) looks really flat though the skin looks right, how can i correct the background but not alter the skin of my character?
Mask Adjustment Layers to affect only the background.
You are the best out there! Keep up with the good work!
Awsome video and great explaination. Very instructive, thank you very much
iamthismoment, Thank you so much! 🍻
Very interesting explanation !
Thanks, Nicolas!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I've been missing something in my AE grading. This tutorial gave it to me!
Great video easy to follow
Just a handy tip.. I think you can place multiple points in all curve channels - on that point - with: SHIFT+CMD+Left click (MAC).. Thanks a lot for giving CMYK table, I'm using LAB but I never say no to new stuff :)
And sometimes it helps separating white balance adjustment layer with "color" blending mode and make one layer for "luminosity" only. Now I have to compare my workflow with this :) Thanks again.
Question: When correcting a group of people with different skin tones, which method do you use? If you use the CMYK % method, do you focus on one skin tone over the others?
Great Video
You mentioned batch editing hundreds of images in one click. How would you achieve that, even if you had a tripod and the camera never moved? Record an action that pics that spot in the curves? Save a curves preset and make an action for that? I've done a lot of batch editing, and I'm very curious to learn something. Thanks!
Was wondering the same thing.
Awesome tutorial, as usual. thanks, man
Very useful. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much 😃
What an awesome video!! Thank you!!
Great tutorial! Covered every skin tone.
This was very well done and easy to follow. Nice job.
Cool, well done tutorial
Thanks, Robert!
Great tutorial!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Slightly pseudo-scientific but still a great video because you introduced a bunch of really useful techniques so thank you! There's no perfect mid grey technique without a grey card. And a grey card is itself designed as a best case compromise because different materials absorb and reflect different frequencies of light differently and different sensors, image processors and raw converters all have inbuilt biases. That's why this is still more an art than a science because a scientific process that takes into account all the possible variables (to my knowledge) still does not exist. Some people suggest balancing for incident light at the time of taking the photo rather than reflected light off a grey card. This will isolate any cast in the actual light but it still doesn't address the frequency response of the materials or the bias from the electronics. Maybe its a little better than the card and I guess every little bit helps. For general photography the "disadvantage" of our brains auto-correcting white balance is also a boon because even if you get your white balance slightly off we know that the viewer's brain is going to autocorrect it. But if you're doing fashion or product photography and a dress is a say a specific shade of rose and you want to make sure your image shows that colour accurately, you have to start thinking about where and how the image will be seen (print? monitor? phone?) and you have to start thinking about LUTs and ICC profiles all along the workflow path.
Great tut. Thank you very much!
Great tut, exactly what i was looking for, thanks for posting
Always love your tutorials!
Thank you!
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. AMAZING!
Thank you, Sarah!
this is what i'm looking for... thanks for sharing.
Really appreciate the kind words! 👍
How can we save the white balance data after we’ve found the ideal wb to then reopen in lightroom to share across other photos? Seems to import back into lightroom with 0 data from photoshop. Thank you for your videos! 🙏🏼
Too cool! This is a very helpful tip. Thanks for sharing.
With the darker skin in number 3 you can set the blending mode to colour so that it doesn't affect the luminosity/exposure of the final image
Thus is amazing . However I cannot find the link to your tutorial. Can you please post the link so I can buy your tutorials?
tutvid.com/retouching-photos-photoshop/ Thanks! 🍻
Great tutuorial! How would you shift the K channel in RGB?
Because of the differences in the way RGB and CMYK "create" color, there isn't really a 1:1 match for the K channel. The best you would do is change the overall brightness either by targeting the composite RGB channel or by moving all three color channels exactly the same amount up or down.
Awesome video ! thanks !
AMAZING! , i did the holy moley scientific step , for an asian female as sample . My eyes told me ,dude this is not the color but again , i trusted the science and now confirm she was actually Gamura of the Gaurdians of the galaxy Movie. great trick ty ill use it to find out other potential comic characters. and hopefully on my own photo to find out who i really am > )
Lol “your eye will convince you the original image looked better then the color correction” - it’s actually my eyes and my brain… lol
Nice one man!
Fantastic! this will go a long way for me,,,or anyone.
Great vid. But when I control c;ick the eyedropper tool it changed to the move tool. Why is that?
Thanks for the tips! The one with the grey fill layer and threshold works best for me! :-)
Freak yeah. Thanks for the deep dive in curves. Love it. Learned a lot.
Haha, no worries, man! Thank you!
Another great tutorial :D
Thanks, Arthur!
Thanks sir your video , very helpfull
in 9:34 im doing the ctrl click in the spot but it does not show me the spot in the curve please help!!!
Great tutorial, great subjects, great microphone, wobbly desk :D
This video is gold! Thank you for you time to refilm it!
That's great, Rok! Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Love your intro transitions in this video. Do you have a tutorial on how to make this in premiere or after effects?
I love this great outro.😊
Awesome! Glad you watched long enough to see it. Just trying to simplify everything.
Hi, just watched this. Tried your first method. Followed everything the way you showed exactly. On three out of five images, I got horrible results with impossible white balance. Is that because there is nothing middle gray on the image maybe? I don't know. Any idea?
Hi Heirloom, have you found an answer to your question? I'm just trying to figure out the same... Thank you so much in advance
Made me smile, made me smarter. Awesome tutorial :)
Thanks for kind words!
Your work is awesome ! Best teaching! Honest!Thump up!
Dude you are unbelievable!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
when someone is speaking to you up close, do you look at one eye or both?... or do you go back and forwards? .. sometimes i get thrown off out of the conversation cause i'm more freaking focused on which eye i should be looking at LOL
Hello! please tell me what type monitor you have. Thanks.
Thanks you very much. Those tips are very helpful!
I really enjoyed the tutorial, it's very interesting. THan you for sharing!
Thanks!
the true chocolate drooper ! love the vid thanks . i subscribed !
it is little a cold color blue could crate a splendid scene of goddess
Amazing tutorial
Hey man, you do a really nice job with these tutorials. Very underrated if I do say so.
Thanks so much, Raxus!
Nice video. I just downloaded PS CC and while I was very familiar with setting my white and black points in my older version I go to try it in CC and the little adjustment arrows at the bottom of the Curves layer histogram aren't there so there isn't anything to drag like I would usually set the two points up. Help, please!