Tried this and selected 10 colours to create the palette and it works much better as you're inputting more detail of specific colours to the image from the previous one
I'm not even working on anything like this but I found this technique to be pretty amazing and I love the creativity by people like you in the community. Keep being helpful! Thanks for the vid.
You probably have one of the best working knowledge of photoshop I've ever seen. More importantly, you have a lovely way of teaching without over speaking. Excellent!
Dude, a tutorial where I don’t have to skip through a long irrelevant intro, I like you already! I’m not using this for movie grades but stealing the grading from movies for fashion editorial pics. Many thanks homie!
Sorry to say, but this method is not really a good choice. Doing it the way described in the video does work on monchromatic color grades like in the Marsian (all orange) or Matrix (all green). But if you have more colors like the classical teal and orange look i.e. this does not work.
Dude I have never seen anyone do colour grading like this, it's an excellent way of taking grades from bug movies as you state. Thank you for an amazing tutorial
This is really interesting, and you manage to pitch it at just the right level to be clear without being patronising. Good work, you've gained a subscriber :)
That's a really easy photo to use. It would be a bigger tip if you were to use it on a Photo containing skin tones and see what extra effort needed to be added in order to completely mimic the look (separating the skin tones is a huge deal).
This is Impressive! Great job on giving such an easy explanation of this process! We think that it is insanely popular for photographers to make photographs that refer to movies, so thank you for providing us with this tutorial!
O.K. I will copy the link to this amazing tutorial. And save it because I will definitely come back to use this for a story telling video. Thanks for this clear and outstanding tutorial.
It wouldn't work, there's a lot more fiddling to be done as well as masking stuff in the photo as you don't want everything to appear colourized. It's a color guide at best.
@KolTony It actually does work because you're taking the exact colors from the image itself. Now the problem with that is you're taking away the human eye. That is why afterwards you have to tweak it. Color grade it. Play with it. Mess around with it to try to make it your own look. But copying a movies colors gives you a base to play with.
@KolTony I get what you're saying but I'm saying this method scientifically gives you the closest thing to the exact colors used in your favorite movies. Now can you just drag and drop to every video and will it work? Ofcourse not. But if you've been using photoshop for a long time this method takes like 2 mins. And for color grading photoshop is a lot better than lightroom especially if you're color grading for video.
@@elonlove343 Dude stop arguing like an idiot. If I need all that tweaking why would I do this at all you door knob. Also nowhere in video it says you gotta be an expert in Photoshop to do this. Shut your nonsense hole.
That much work isn't worth it for me. Thats insane it takes that many different steps to come away with an image! Think you can just put them side by side and get it closer faster by eye then doing all that! I mean you seem to know what you're doing and are great at what you do. Just for me if it takes that much time to edit one photo thats where photography isn't fun and makes it not feel realistic unfortunately! My favorite part is taking photos and not the behind the desk with years of tutorials that are constantly changing when they keep adding more shit that just gets more confusing for someone simple like me! Thanks for the video though, well done!
Non-Pro Tip: Take a screen grab of your PSD file at the 1:50 step. Crop image to area of interest. In this case, the three swatches. This'll save you jumping thru all the .ACT steps.
This is guys how you earn subscribers. Great job Mason, I am looking into getting involved professionally into photography and video and for now just observing tutorials, tutorials, tutorials.. liked this one so much! Thank you, I subscribed
Oh my god that‘s the best Tutorial i‘ve Seen since i work on Color grading , that’s incredible thank you so much for sharing this.... it’s like a Christmas gift before Christmas soooo coool
Cant be a coincidence that it's exactly the same step by step as pix imperfect. But I'll give u the benefit of the doubt dude. U detailed it well so what if its cooied u did a banging job mate carry on.
Amazing! Great work around and you explained this so well!! Loved your video and learned something so so valuable. And agreed, the Martian looks dope af
This is great man. Been looking for something like this all over the place. Everyone calls their videos “tutorials” and just end up placing a paid lut and just adjusting the basics...
Damn, i always asked myself how the f*ck do these people use the color tables they want as a look/lut in their videos, now i know! Great video dude... the look of my next music video i am going to shoot has to be like matrix. With this method, you‘re saving me a ton of hours searching for the right gradient
I would want to see this on an image or clip that actually had something in it other than dirt, seems like this is just a tutorial on how to make an orange overlay and isn’t super representative of what this would look like on skin tones or with anything with any sort of color variation. I love the thought put into it but don’t know if it would work on anything that’s not just the same color
@@hunkosaurusrex While I agree that this video IS just an introduction, this dude isn't being strictly negative, This is constructive criticism. And you're over here on an internet crusade, out for blood. Just chill. Constructive criticism is not negative.
@@hunkosaurusrex You're delusional, What put downs do they use in their comment? Despite the fact that their comments aren't strictly relevant to the video, they say they love the thought put into it, they aren't trashing him, Jesus Christ man, chill. It's a cool video and they aren't saying otherwise, they are pointing out an ACTUAL VALID FACT, it just isn't super relevant. Have a nice day man.
@@hunkosaurusrex you're talking about yourself the guy has a point its really not a good example image at all. No dynamics. You have your head up your own arse if you cannot see the truth this person is pointing out, its obvious.
Unfortunately Photoshop only exports adjustment layers as part of the LUT, so exporting directly from the image would essentially be a blank LUT and would do nothing! Thanks for watching! 👍
Of course you could save a lot of time by opening the comparison view in Lumetri colour wheels panel, put your Martian picture in first (reference) window then press ‘match’. Viola! Martian look in seconds.
True, just like you put a boring dull muddy brown overlay over your footage. This is no way can match the "authentic cinematic mood" from the original movie!
The way people learn and develop their own styles is through others, my first video projects are similar to my favorite directors and from there as I learn more I developed my own style.
Both Lumetri and Photoshop have color matching features that would have been 100 times easier and produced a better result. LUTs are much more powerful than the two dimensional way you are using them here to just transfer curves and a gradient map.
Could something like this be done for everything everywhere all at once? The colors there are amazing. Especially the greens .know this is from 3 years ago but If you could do a tutorial that would be great!
The color grade in Guillermo Del Toro Movies is just awesome! The Devil's Backbone, Shape Of Water, Blade etc are just amazing! Guillermo Del Toro make movies like it's poetry!
What're some of your favourite movie color-grades!? let me know down below!
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Molinare)
madmax
Fargo TV Series
David Finchers SE7EN
sopranos
I've been using Photoshop for 20+ years and Premiere for about 8 and I learned more in the last 13 minutes than in the last three years. Well done.
Tried this and selected 10 colours to create the palette and it works much better as you're inputting more detail of specific colours to the image from the previous one
I'm not even working on anything like this but I found this technique to be pretty amazing and I love the creativity by people like you in the community. Keep being helpful! Thanks for the vid.
You probably have one of the best working knowledge of photoshop I've ever seen. More importantly, you have a lovely way of teaching without over speaking. Excellent!
Dude, a tutorial where I don’t have to skip through a long irrelevant intro, I like you already! I’m not using this for movie grades but stealing the grading from movies for fashion editorial pics. Many thanks homie!
This was amazing. Thank you! (Saying it's super simple on repeat helped soothe my nervous system about all the steps.)
Sorry to say, but this method is not really a good choice. Doing it the way described in the video does work on monchromatic color grades like in the Marsian (all orange) or Matrix (all green). But if you have more colors like the classical teal and orange look i.e. this does not work.
I also have this in mind
That makes sense yea
@@mounorman what Topic?? Can you please say Just the name of the vídeo?
Are you gonna offer ideas or point your finger down some more?
Show us dude.
Dude I have never seen anyone do colour grading like this, it's an excellent way of taking grades from bug movies as you state. Thank you for an amazing tutorial
I'm glad you liked it! Be sure to check out some of my other tutorials!
Didn't know about that double-click color picker on the Curves panel, and I've always been looking for a function like that one. Thanks!
Seriously everyone watching you owe you one. Thanks bro im subscribing
This is really interesting, and you manage to pitch it at just the right level to be clear without being patronising. Good work, you've gained a subscriber :)
That's a really easy photo to use. It would be a bigger tip if you were to use it on a Photo containing skin tones and see what extra effort needed to be added in order to completely mimic the look (separating the skin tones is a huge deal).
Probably the best Color Grading tutorial. Great great work. Much thanks!
Next: how to steal Matt Damon from his movie
Nuke + Geotracker (KeenTools) : ua-cam.com/video/GFjbqx9n6I0/v-deo.html ;-)
I will wait for how to steal the budget from your favourite movie
*Jimmy Kimmel gets excited*
Matt Damon: "Matt Damon."
You don't steal Matt Damon, he steals your movie
This is Impressive! Great job on giving such an easy explanation of this process! We think that it is insanely popular for photographers to make photographs that refer to movies, so thank you for providing us with this tutorial!
You're genius! This blew my mind!!!
O.K. I will copy the link to this amazing tutorial. And save it because I will definitely come back to use this for a story telling video.
Thanks for this clear and outstanding tutorial.
Never knew that Photoshop can Make Premier LUTs. You save My Day MAN !
Dope shit, my friend! Good vibes all the way through
Wow thank you so much. I've been wonder what do they use movie color template for. Now i know how to cop these amazing color gradings for my photos
To me, the final image just looks orange and monochrome. Doesn't give me an idea of how this would work on photos with...stuff in it.
It wouldn't work, there's a lot more fiddling to be done as well as masking stuff in the photo as you don't want everything to appear colourized. It's a color guide at best.
How often will you use a mars effect lol? Don't think of it that way. You can use the method he showed to replicate any color grade from any movie.
@KolTony It actually does work because you're taking the exact colors from the image itself. Now the problem with that is you're taking away the human eye. That is why afterwards you have to tweak it. Color grade it. Play with it. Mess around with it to try to make it your own look. But copying a movies colors gives you a base to play with.
@KolTony I get what you're saying but I'm saying this method scientifically gives you the closest thing to the exact colors used in your favorite movies. Now can you just drag and drop to every video and will it work? Ofcourse not. But if you've been using photoshop for a long time this method takes like 2 mins. And for color grading photoshop is a lot better than lightroom especially if you're color grading for video.
@@elonlove343 Dude stop arguing like an idiot. If I need all that tweaking why would I do this at all you door knob. Also nowhere in video it says you gotta be an expert in Photoshop to do this. Shut your nonsense hole.
Definitely one of the best tuts on UA-cam, thanks a lot man
You're welcome dude!
OMG!!!! YOU ARE A FREAKING GENIUS!!!!!! I will definitely be using this.
Haha! Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!
man this is one of the best color grading tutorial video on youtube!!
That was one of the best tutorials I have ever seen on UA-cam! Thank you so much!!!
That much work isn't worth it for me. Thats insane it takes that many different steps to come away with an image! Think you can just put them side by side and get it closer faster by eye then doing all that! I mean you seem to know what you're doing and are great at what you do. Just for me if it takes that much time to edit one photo thats where photography isn't fun and makes it not feel realistic unfortunately! My favorite part is taking photos and not the behind the desk with years of tutorials that are constantly changing when they keep adding more shit that just gets more confusing for someone simple like me! Thanks for the video though, well done!
Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks man!
Fantastic !!!! Darkest hours is one of my favorite color graded film. It also has a lot to do with the lighting
Absolutely! Filmmaking is 85%+ about the lighting!
Mason Summers so true it’s my challenge for 2020: make my own movie with a great lightning set up ;) cheers and thank you for he great content
This is a really great tutorial. I’ve been a colorist for years and have never lifted a color scheme in quite this way.
pulled from @UCMrvLMUITAImCHMOhX88PYQ so he's good at copying ;)
Super useful. I had no idea photoshop could export LUTs! thanks!
Saved to my favourites for eternity. Please never delete this video.
Non-Pro Tip: Take a screen grab of your PSD file at the 1:50 step. Crop image to area of interest. In this case, the three swatches. This'll save you jumping thru all the .ACT steps.
You are the reason I dissabled Ad Blocker and suck up all of those ads... the least I can do.
Had always assumed this must be possible! Very well done man, solid thumbnail too 👌
Thanks George! Glad you enjoyed it! 👊
My mind has been... BLOWN!!! I AM TRYING THIS IMMEDIATELY!
This is guys how you earn subscribers.
Great job Mason, I am looking into getting involved professionally into photography and video and for now just observing tutorials, tutorials, tutorials.. liked this one so much!
Thank you, I subscribed
Oh my god that‘s the best Tutorial i‘ve Seen since i work on Color grading , that’s incredible thank you so much for sharing this.... it’s like a Christmas gift before Christmas soooo coool
Dude this has been one of the most helpful videos about color grading that I've seen in ages, thank you!
Mind Blown 🤯 That was awesome. Thank you!
Cant be a coincidence that it's exactly the same step by step as pix imperfect. But I'll give u the benefit of the doubt dude. U detailed it well so what if its cooied u did a banging job mate carry on.
Amazing! Great work around and you explained this so well!! Loved your video and learned something so so valuable. And agreed, the Martian looks dope af
This is great man. Been looking for something like this all over the place. Everyone calls their videos “tutorials” and just end up placing a paid lut and just adjusting the basics...
Great Tutorial! Very easy to follow and you really went slow enough to create a lut along with the tutorial. Great job! Thank you very much.
Now how do I do this in After effects ?
Damn, i always asked myself how the f*ck do these people use the color tables they want as a look/lut in their videos, now i know! Great video dude... the look of my next music video i am going to shoot has to be like matrix. With this method, you‘re saving me a ton of hours searching for the right gradient
Kartal they color grade from scratch
LUTs are NOT the way to grade. Just learn your tools.
Doesn't really work for images with a lot of color variety
In games with CGA gfx we had only 4 colors! :)
@BTON Some old game graphic artists were able to create masterpieces using just four colors. So it's up to you only.
@@KiR_3d no
youre missing the point
@@letsprogress4124 I agree, From this technique you can only create monochromatic grading.
thank you my friend... im just in the comments to help push the video out to more ppl.
Great work dude!! Now I can steal Peaky Blinder color scheme
"Hey guys what's going on?"
Me: it's actually pretty tough recently
Thank you, your color grading tutorial and saves for the luts are really awesome. keep doing tutorials, you're great.
This is brilliant Mason! Thank you so much!
I would want to see this on an image or clip that actually had something in it other than dirt, seems like this is just a tutorial on how to make an orange overlay and isn’t super representative of what this would look like on skin tones or with anything with any sort of color variation. I love the thought put into it but don’t know if it would work on anything that’s not just the same color
@@hunkosaurusrex While I agree that this video IS just an introduction, this dude isn't being strictly negative, This is constructive criticism. And you're over here on an internet crusade, out for blood. Just chill. Constructive criticism is not negative.
@@hunkosaurusrex being passive aggressive to people is also being negative
@@hunkosaurusrex You're delusional, What put downs do they use in their comment? Despite the fact that their comments aren't strictly relevant to the video, they say they love the thought put into it, they aren't trashing him, Jesus Christ man, chill. It's a cool video and they aren't saying otherwise, they are pointing out an ACTUAL VALID FACT, it just isn't super relevant. Have a nice day man.
@@hunkosaurusrex He This guy made a very light critic, 90% of the other comments are: This video was totally useless
@@hunkosaurusrex you're talking about yourself the guy has a point its really not a good example image at all. No dynamics. You have your head up your own arse if you cannot see the truth this person is pointing out, its obvious.
Obviously you’ll want to tweak a lot more if you’re trying to match something as an insertion or something but that is great. Thanks!
Dude this was a game changer. Well done. Super interesting trick
@8:40 Can't use the Color Picker to select the color from another layer. (Layer 1) on your screen.
What would happen if you took a section of the Martian frame and exported it as a LUT ?
Following as I was wondering the exact same thing
Unfortunately Photoshop only exports adjustment layers as part of the LUT, so exporting directly from the image would essentially be a blank LUT and would do nothing! Thanks for watching! 👍
Hi Marijn I’ve just replied (not sure if you get the notification or not!)
@@_MasonSummers thanks a lot, that makes sense
Of course you could save a lot of time by opening the comparison view in Lumetri colour wheels panel, put your Martian picture in first (reference) window then press ‘match’. Viola! Martian look in seconds.
Not at all what I expected. This is brilliant - thanks for sharing!
Thanks dude! 👍
"Don't panic too much" Me: *turns panic dial to just a little* LOL awesome vid!
It's not exactly a feature but the grade on the Pixes Live at Newport Festival is lovely.
I'm gonna steal this and make all my videos look like the red/blue contrasts in mad max
this is the best tutorial on UA-cam! 1.87K subscribers? It should be 1.87M. C'mon guys!! He deserves it!
Just made weird sepia effect. Also I can't double click on the curve sample icons
True, just like you put a boring dull muddy brown overlay over your footage. This is no way can match the "authentic cinematic mood" from the original movie!
This is probably the most helpful video I've ever seen. Thanks!!
I wasnt able to use the palette created in the first file for the Curves layer. It wouldn't eye pick the three colors at all
I tried this out and it really speeds up my editing process for color grading. Thanks again
Glad to hear it!
Video on colour grading “open up pr or ps or other”
me: confusing Blackmagic noise
lol this is a best teaching i've ever learned :D thanks, your way is so dope.
instead of shilling one's presets i think this is actually the way , teaching peope how to do color grading by themselves
The way people learn and develop their own styles is through others, my first video projects are similar to my favorite directors and from there as I learn more I developed my own style.
Every art starts from mimicry.
Thanks for this in-depth color grading tutorial.
"It's really super simple." That brings a smile all the time for beginners like me. So, thank you.
That was awesome! Thank you for the tutorial. Easy color grading yess
Blade runner, the night scenes, it’s difficult for the midtones but it makes a difference on your street photografie
8:40 when I got to map my tones the color picker does not register an input when selecting?
Great information, thanks! You’ve gained a subscriber!
Genius tutorial man, i am making a short film inspired by blade runner so this technique will really help me to color grade the shots.
This is awesome! Didn't know this was possible. Thanks a lot, man 😍
I’m going to test this out and take the colour grading from Dark - those tones are dope
Very good tutorial and I have hit the subscribe button. This tutorialI suppose will work very well with The Matrix film colours
Would love to see this reversed, with Matt Damon transferred by a LUT back to a back-lot on planet earth.
This was supremely helpful. You made a follower out of me. Thanks Mason.
so dope man love these unique tutorials
Genius, thank you so much for teaching this! Super easy to follow along and memorize. I salute you!
This was a great refresher and tutorial. Good work and thank you.
Thank you very much, love it, i will apply it, i didn´t know how to make luts from PS and send them to Pr
How can i do it in Affinity Photo ?
cheers for that, some interesting things i've learned about Ps and Pr, i'll give it a go and see how it looks over a variety of clips
Both Lumetri and Photoshop have color matching features that would have been 100 times easier and produced a better result. LUTs are much more powerful than the two dimensional way you are using them here to just transfer curves and a gradient map.
Thanks so much for this tutorial!! This is exactly what I wanted and you did a great job explaining everything
Could something like this be done for everything everywhere all at once? The colors there are amazing. Especially the greens .know this is from 3 years ago but If you could do a tutorial that would be great!
This didn’t work for my scene, I have skin tones and clothing that make it not work so well. Even with 5 colors in my swatch
after taking out highlight,midtone,shadow tone from the actual photo, it is not selecting anything in the curve adjustment pallet.
can you help please?
Simply excellent- many thanks 😊
Great idea bro, this will help me for sho!!
Found this interesting clip to try....thank you!!!
The color grade in Guillermo Del Toro
Movies is just awesome! The Devil's Backbone, Shape Of Water, Blade etc are just amazing! Guillermo Del Toro make movies like it's poetry!
Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy
Thanks bro, I really learned a lot from this video👌
Loved. Brilliant. Well done.
8:40 i'm not able to pick any colour outside of the dialogue box, do you know why? Thx.