Color Processing of my Fujifilm RAW Files in Lightroom
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- In this video, I explain exactly how I edit my RAW files for Color.
This video explains exactly how I use Lightroom to take RAW files of any camera to achieve this.
I talk about using the tone curve tools in collaboration the camera calibration tools.
Of course, I know that this style is not to everybody's taste and post-processing is as subjective as photography itself.
However, I hope this tutorial will help you identify at least a starting point for your own colour edits in Lightroom
Whilst I use Lightroom for this, you will also be able to achieve similar results with other RAW editing toolkits such as Alien Skin Exposure which I'll be delving into deeper in a few weeks.
Additionally, much of my colour processing has been born from some of the older VSCO presets. VSCO will give you more leverage as it utilises very clever calibration techniques by reading the camera you are shooting with.
However, this is my starting point for colour editing my RAW files. You'll want to check each image of course but for me, it gives me a very filmic look right from the start of the processing workflow.
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I hope you find it useful - any questions, leave them below and I'll do my best to answer them.
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I watch quite a lot of photographers' UA-cam output and I think this is the most generous thing I have ever seen. Thank you.
As ever Kevin, amazing detailed information - you are a true gent for sharing your recipes with the rest of us. Thanks
Thanks, David. Very kind.
I couldn’t get what you do if you want to add grain to your images and why you don’t like using grain in Lightroom? Great videos, I’m getting obsessed with your channel
Great video Kevin. Interesting to see your sharpening settings, I know someone else has already mentioned that. I've seen and read so many differing views on forums and Facebook groups about how to sharpen the Fuji files.
Thanks for the video Kevin. Always good to see a real pro do their editing workflow and pick up on some tips/tricks. Please keep up the good work and sharing your insider info to the photography world.
Thanks, Stephen.
Hi Kevin, I am so happy that I have find you and your channel which led me to your web page with tons of useful information. I am beginner in photography and each and every post from you is like a year in photo school:-) Thank you very much for your time and passion to share you experience and knowledge with us! I really appreciate it.
Thank you for the lovely comment, Alexandre!
Hello, congratulations for the video, I wanted to ask you an information, in the minute 10:10 what exactly do you do? do you apply a preset? Thanks so much
Thanks Kevin, really appreciate you taking the time to put this together!
Thanks, Hannah
Absolutely fantastic! Such an inspiration, Kevin. I am trying to plan a trip out to the UK at some point soon to come to a workshop of yours!
Thanks, Nate. Hope to see you sometime.
Thank you for being so generous and sincere in describing your work flow
No problem, thanks, Mostahfiz.
Heh......people go on and on about sharpening and you just leave it alone and the photos look terrific. Helpful video. real magic in those color channels, thanks
I never sharpen my images in LR. Well, I'll accept the defaults upon exporting and that's about it :-)
Awesome, thanks! I really like your picture style, it's very close to what I try to get my own colours to, but for some reason I have never fiddled with the RGB-channels.
Will definitely adopt a bunch of these settings into my presets.
Thank you for this video.
Fantastic! Really appreciate your detailed videos on processing.
No problem, and thanks for the comment.
Love the look!! Would love to download it as a preset. Was hard getting the tone curve right (plus I'm lazy)
Keep them coming Kevin!! Great video and info. Thanks!!
Thanks, Paul!
Very very good tutorial, thank you
Thanks!
really appreciate this video. thank you for posting this
Thank you :-)
Another great video Kevin and a fascinating insight into your workflow and creative thought process. I'm aware that you seem to prefer B&W for your wedding work and of course is a stylistic choice that suits your brand so well, but I'm curious as to what percentage of your professional work is shot in colour and what drives that choice? Is it client driven, the lighting on the day, the fact that the story plays out better in one medium rather than the other? By the way I'm one of the attendees on the X-Weddings conference on the 12th and get to shoot with Patrick La Roque the next day on his workshop. Can't tell you how excited I am for this fantastic opportunity to be engaging with such talented image makers and visual storytellers; look forward to meeting you in person. Cheers for the video; very professional and polished it is too!
Hi Will. There are lots of factors involved in deciding what will be colour and what's mono. Over the years, I've started producing more colour but for my weddings, it's normally around a 70% mono and 30% mix.
Danke schön, dein Video ist immer sinnvoll und ich habe sehr sehr viel von deine Video gelernt.
Danke schön :-)
Fantastic. Thanks for the settings.
Thank you so much Kevin for another insight into your processing. I have learned a couple more key things about LR and the process that I did not know. I was wondering about the prints hung on your wall... some of them look like they are mounted on foam core(?) and hung flush with the wall. What holds them in position, and, are they just dry mounted on foam core? Thanks.
I use these little items. They are great: www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Medium-Picture-Hanging-medium-white/dp/B000OF6X48/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519154333&sr=8-2&keywords=velcro+wall+hanging+strips
Really enjoyed this one Kevin, very informative.. would love to attend the wedding conference especially as it's in my home town, just down the road from me now, but sadly out of my price range, might there be a vlog of it?
I'm hoping there will be a highlights video of the day...... see again sometime, Robin.
Very useful, thanks. I notice you didn't adjust the contrast slider
I don't shoot in raw but love watching your videos regardless 😊
I mostly shoot JPEG myself but I think a lot of people shoot RAW. I'll be doing the JPEG process soon (though there really isn't much to that).
would love to see that too Kevin. More info is always better and it will show folks what you can do to take even the processed jgs and make them pop even more.
great video!
Boss. Love these tutorials.
Thanks, Ian. Appreciate your comment....
Kevin Mullins simple to follow, no pissing about with faux Hollywood production effects on your video like others. Quality stuff.
Hi Kevin. Great video as usual, thanks for the tips. I just noticed the pics hanged on your wall: how about giving some advices for large size printing as you do? Cheers.
Will definitely be doing something about printing soon.
This is a great video, much appreciated. What I am interested in though is the process you used to arrive at these settings, most of your values seem to be quite formulaic, but work very well. As someone who has played around with the RGB curves, HSL sliders and camera calibration, I have never got results this good. So is it from hours of tweaking or some great book I don’t know about or is there a bit of learning from tips from others etc also? I know you mention your curve origin is a tweaked VSCO etc. for example thanks again Kevin!!
It's more like years of tweaking.... I've tried to find something that is a good starting point for all my Fuji cameras. The calibration panel will affect different cameras in a different way. VSCO does something very similar (but of course you have hundreds of film presets to choose from there). I try and stick to one style of processing mostly for ease aswell as uniformity in my images. Check out the F16 accompanying blog post (in the video notes) and there is a link to a detailed description of how the calibration RGB adjustments are very different to the HSL.
Kevin Mullins thanks Kevin. These videos are really appreciated. I followed the video and tried the settings on a shot of my son from a Leica, shot under terrible lighting conditions and the settings with very minor tweaks in be develop module just worked so well. Saved an image from the reject pile!! flic.kr/p/21MheCf. Thanks again Kevin!!!
That's very cool to hear - and a lovely shot too.
Congratulation for your channel, it is very good. I find your tone curve too aggressive and the image looks overedited, did you change your edit flow in the last 2 years?
Just when I thought I was good and had enough software..And then Kevin mentions alien skin. (I'd never heard of this..) omg I love this processor. It's fast as hell on my 3.1 mac pro. I love the way it processes the fuji raf files. Question for you Kevin? What as the the benefits of Lightroom over Alien Skin in your opinion? I kind of wish it had dehaze and spot removal but I might be overlooking that ?
ASE is very good but for some, it's not quite the same as Lightroom. Dehaze and radial filter for example. I think for people that don't want to go down the subscription route, ASE is amazing and in some ways is much better.
Thanks that was very helpful,
Hi Kevin. Been a fan for ages, thanks for all the tips. I'd really like to adopt your rgb tone curve settings, there any way you can link them for us? I've been trying to watch the video and pause for the values but its getting me nowhere! Many thanks for everything you do mate.
Ryan Prosser I’ll be writing any accompanying blog post tomorrow over at f16.click :-)
Here is the link to his blog article with all the screens/settings info details:
f16.click/tips/how-i-edit-my-colour-images-with-lightroom.html
Very helpful video. Thank you. Would be great to hear more detail on how you use RGB curve adjustments.
Can you please explain what your thought was when you made that R G B tone curve. That part influenced like 90% of what the final picture looks like
Big fan! Great tutorial 👌🏻 what computer do you use?
I have a custom PC. 64GB of Ram, Intel i7 8 Core processor. It's a bit of beast :-)
Brilliant!
Thank you!
The saturated color is nice, but the crushed shadows look so harsh to me, especially for wedding photos. This processing makes photos look like contrasty slide film. Wrinkles look more wrinkly. You generally can't white balance off teeth because they are rarely white.
Thanks, Merlin. As I said - this is just a process and could well be tailored to personal taste. You can't white balance off pure white (try it in LR - LR will complain), you'll be looking for something that is around 19% grey which I've found over the years come close to the tone in the whites of eyes and teeth....though of course, not always.
Ive seen many videos where they always show to use the white balance picker tool to just find the squares where the numeric values in the pop up window are as close to being the same to each other as possible regardless of the color (white, blue, grey, etc). if they are all very close in value then its a good neutral and you can WB off of it.
Wrinkles look more wrinkly.....my thoughts exactly. The way this image has been processed makes the lady look ten years older. She'll love you for that!
Yes, absolutely. I talk about that in my B&W processing video.
Actually, she did love the image - but thanks for your kind comment.
And as I said, it's a workflow that can be tweaked to your own taste. It won't work on all images. It's up to you if you want to do skin enhancement and retouching.
This tutorial is about colour, not retouching.
Do you have preset on your camera? WOuld you mind doing a videos on each of them and the reason for each and where do you likely use them.
Most of it is here : f16.click/wedding-photography/shooting-weddings-with-fuji.html
Hi Kevin, amazing video. But, in the 10:10 minute what do you do?
10:10 is where the processing is added via the preset. That way, I can go through each of the steps in the develop panel easier. Cheers.
Hello Kevin, Thanks for the video! I just have one question. I followed your steps as exact as I could, I even looked at the numbers in your curves and copied them exactly. However, my results are much different, Super contrasty images that I cannot even use at all. Do you think different versions of LR behave differently?
Kevin, can I ask why you adjusted the White Balance at the beginning of the edit and then adjusted the temperature/tint later on? Isn’t adjusting the temp completely changing the overall White Balance again? So why do two completely different edits at different points in the edit?
Pretty much always try and get the white point as close to a happy setting at the beginning. Further adjustments are likely to happen to the tone of course as the edit completes. But you definitely want to try and get the white balance as close to what you want it right at the beginning of the process. This is true also if creating monochrome images.
I find capture one to be more efficient for Fuji. Thoughts?
Not for me, sadly. The work flow elements are just not there (yet).
@@kevin_mullins I just find the images come out better but it may be a placebo effect lol.
Do you never use lens correction? I shoot with the x100f and there is a profile in lightroom for the camera. And activating the correction shows noticeable difference. But I also notice that you don't use it :)
Hi Kevin, thanks for sharing this valuable insight, always great, but with all respect, I believe you made a mistake in your initial statement when you bring the blacks up as trying to emulate your fuji camera settings... When you do that in the camera you’re actually strengthened the blacks. Your LR adjustment is doing the opposite... cheers
Hi Sergio, thanks - and you are correct in the observation but it's not a mistake. The shadows & highlights in the camera settings do work int he opposite direction if you like to the RAW processing, though I find these raw settings come closest (obviously not in every occasion) to the +2, -1 setting I'll normally use in camera. I'm guessing this is to do with the fact that there is far more scale in Lightroom than the 4 (or 2) settings we see in the camera.
Kevin Mullins thanks for your follow up Kevin. To be 100% honest still confusing to me... I have an x100f (after owing x100t) and as you know, even better for sure than I do, when setting shadows at +2 let’s say you get depper more pronounced darker shadows. When setting in LR shadows at +35 and blacks +25, what you’re doing is opening up the darkest areas of the photograph, resulting in less contrast image. In other words you’re aiming to increase the dynamic range in that case. Later on in you’re develop process you are somehow correcting this by playing with the tone curve and creating some contrast, but out of the sliders it’s the opposite effect compared to you’re camera JPEG settings. I bet you a cold beer by the Mediterranean Sea in Spain this is true 😉 🍻
It's definitely true what you are saying (I'll have a Sanmiguel :-) ). The point I'm making I guess is that for the RAW files (which are so very different to the JPEGs), this is the configuration that gives me the density in the shadows that I like. I put this down to the X-Trans processor being less aggressive in it's deepening of the shadows compared to much more graduated adjustments available in Lightroom.
When I edit JPEGs, assuming the exposure is correct, I pretty much just add a small standard "S" tone curve to stengthen the shadows + Highlights settings that I've got in camera.
Kevin Mullins 😄 You’re more than invited to a San Miguel by the sea Kevin, please reach out if ever get close to this area, I promise no Fuji raw talk 😂. I understand what you’re trying to explain now I think. It’s all about the RAW rendering in LR and trying to get closer to what the in-camera processor is doing then. I got confused I think because it’s counter intuitive the effect of the parameter in LR Vs Camera JPEG settings. Thanks again for helping to clarify
Just an off topic question. What are you using for the Magnifying glass? it seems to make it much easier to see text and settings, specially in lightroom.
The screen recordings are done in Camtasia which allows you to add zooms etc like this.
At 10:09 it's still just a flat image, then you wave your cursor over the tone curve and the image changes. What did you do? Was it just lightroom catching up to the HSL adjustments you did earlier? Did you apply a preset?
He did a jumpcut in the video.
@@WDeranged so he didn't really show us how he edited it?
Great video, thanks. Question: I noticed you set the tone curve individually for red, blue, and green. They seem to be set the same. Is that any different than adjusting the overall tone curve?
They are slightly different. If you look at the blog post on f16.click you'll see the exact settings :-)
Where is the tone curve editing?
Do you recommend LR over Capture One for Fuji?
I've never really used C1. Currently, I use LR and Alien Skin Exposure.
@kevin mullins: Do u think that works for landscape photography too?
I use it for pretty much everything as a starting point at least.
Hi Kevin,
Fuji Raw files can open directly in Lightroom Classic CC 2018 ?
When i tired in Lightroom 6, its not opening . Can you help in this.
Thanks
LR 6 doesn't support some of the later cameras. You'll either have to update Lightroom or you could use something like Alien Skin Exposure or the RAW DNG Converter.
@@kevin_mullins Thanks for the suggestions Kevin .
Have some issues on the focus while shooting wedding, can you kindly suggest what settings can avoid those focus issues and blurred images?
Can You reveal the picture profile of above photos?
Thank you
Check out my video about colour editing and all will be revealed :-)
im getting wormy elements in my photos, im using an fuji xt-20 ..
why is this
Possibly bad exposure or over-sharpening.
What happened at 10:09?!?!
That's where the tone curve is being applied.
Let me save you some time.
Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 10 is the best software to edit Fujifilm.
Because, they are the company that created the Fujifilm X Converter. Also the company behind Nikon, Panasonic, Pantex raw converter.
Highly recommended.
nifty
Cheers :-)
So much work to get to zero is maddening, no? Don't you wish that at least the colour could be alright out of camera to prevent all that HSL work?
That’s the point of RAW files I guess - to give us latitude to do whatever we want to them. The JPEGs out of the camera of course are processed but offer less latitude for those that wish to edit them further.
you can always do on import into Lr to add your camera calibration profile of "Portrait" or "Cloudy", or whatever your fave starting point preset is so it doesnt look so flat. no reason to start with flat if you dont want to but RAW is RAW. In the film days you had negatives (your raw file) and you had to send it to the labs to get processed in their darkrooms (now done in Lightroom digitally). Same exact process. Nothing new. Nothing is free if you want to get high quality. If you want to shoot jpg and print at Walmart on crappy paper and use crappy techs you are always able to. If you want highest quality you need to put in the work to take them to the next level.
All camera companies have their own in camera color corection algorithms. Therefore the color synsetivity and color spectral response curve will be different. Camera companies don't publish this data as they do for lenses. You may fine the tonal range, color sensitivity, full color sensitivity, and color spectral response from DXOMarks. Maybe
Sorry but I didn’t like the end result at all. Too dark and contrasty looking and too much saturation. The blacks look crushed. But that’s just my opinion.
That’s cool. It would be a boring world if we all liked the same thing :-)
Slow down. You talk way to fast.......
Jerry Pruce You can use the close captions or slow down the play speed. UA-cam tools are there to help you.
Thanks......
Hi Sir Kevin! I am using XT20 and i am shooting now Raw files. Is there any software you would like to recommend from me that can read directly raw files? coz at the moment i am converting raw files to DNG files to use on Lightroom which i do not know if it's really good.. Thank you Sir!
You will need the CC version of Lightroom I believe. Alternatively, I think Alien Skin Exposure can read the raw files now.
Kevin Mullins thanks Sir!
Kevin Mullins thanks Sir!