In OS X, under Applications and then Utilities, you have the digital color meter which allows you to measure the colour of anything on your display regardless of your editing software.
I just wanna say thanks for the video. I started off years ago as a penciler, inker & then moved over to be a colourist for a small comic book company. I wasn’t very good. I like retina burning colours (to this day), & I got that from growing up in Central & South America, where many of the indigenous clothing is made from bright bright colours. Learning to see and discern colours are two very different things, and it is important to be able to discern good colour pallets & combinations, and this technique here is a great way to start learning colour theory. I look forward to more of your videos. Thanks again!
This is the first of your videos I’ve come upon, and just as I’m switching to using Lightroom AND trying to learn more about color grading. This is one of those rare UA-cam videos that caused an immediate breakthrough for me. So rare and so appreciated, thank you!
FANTASTIC!!! I was looking to color match a couple images for a posting. What I got was sooo much more. Now I want to spend the rest of my day color matching some of my own photos to stills from epically graded movies. Good by productivity for today!
I learned so much in this 13 minute video. The fact that my Tone Curve was locked and I needed to unlock it has escaped me for a year. Thanks for.not assuming we all know even the most simplistic things or things others may find simple.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, Ted. I've been using these curves for quite some time and always wanted to tell people how powerful this tool is. Your video not only introduced, in a very understandable manner, how curves work; I also find myself learning new things about it.
This is fantastic! Most likely many of us will take this concept or idea and run with it as it seems that the possibilities are endless. Like with many things in the arts its important to learn the basics before experimenting. Thanks Mr. Ted Forbes for all these great videos and your passion for Photography!
Hi! Well done! Thank you for he detailed explanation yet so simple to understand. This is a 5 year "old" video but I recon more educational than most, if not all that I've seen so far, recent videos regarding colorgrading. Very interested in the color grading, as a must for the final segment of an image. Cheers
In Capture One, you could probably put both images up side by side, and then add RGB read out labels to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows of both images and then adjust the levels or curves of the new image until the numbers match.
Every day is a school day, this is excellent knowledge to pass on, I've been trying to figure this out on my own without success but has now opened up a new level in my editing process to get the look and feel in my images that I've been after,so thankyou very much for sharing.
fantastic explanation video ,i was looking so long for this tutorial specific for lightroom .thank you so much.the shortcut for the color picker to find the shadows and highlights blew my mind ,using lightroom for so long and you are the first person to mention this ,game-changer !!!!
Ted - this is the best tutorial I have run across on using the separate RGB channels in the Tone Curve panel in Lightroom, or in Photoshop for that matter. Excellent work and thank you so much.
I usually watch you cover other photogtaphers, and listen to your more philosophical videos, which is absolutely wonderful, but dang, this is a nice portrait.
Didn’t have a clue that this existed, or knew enough to know about it. Pretty neat stuff. It’s good to learn about the hidden gems. Now I need to try and understand the tone curve more.
Yeah it took me a sec to get it too. He forgot to show where he was clicking but you need to select a gradient tool, up where apear the options to crop, brush, etc. you can choose the radial or linear (it doesn’t matter) after selecting it you will see the color option and from there like he said just hold alt/option and click and drag from inside the color box to the area you want to sample. Hope this helps.
Thank you for giving us again some good advice... makes me think of the early years of your channel where you were making fantastic content and taking the time to teach us photography in all its depth. Been a follower for years now and will keep on being a fan.. Merci..
this is heckin great, thank you! balancing 6 colours on 3 layers/channels is breaking my brain, but it's super helpful p.s. the colour picker hack is really cool, thanks for sharing
Amazing, Ted! Thanks so much for this lesson, especially the “colour picker” trick in Lightroom and clear explanation of how to use the Tone Curve to achieve colour matching. Brilliant!
This was a great video as always, great color grading information. The tip about getting the color picker outside the color pallet in Lightroom? Priceless! Thank you once again.
This is incredibly well done, thank you! I'd also be so thrilled to see you do this just in Lightroom CC-- there are a couple features you used in classic that CC doesn't have unfortunately 😥
Thanks for these videos Ted. After watching them I've pulled out all my old stuff shot on Fuji c200 and got a pretty close profile. Very happy with this and I'll be using this for a project I'm working on. Thanks for the great content
Great video! I've been playing with color tone curves a good bit lately but that color picker trick will save me soooo much time. Thanks! I've started saving off my favorite sets of curves as custom curves. That way I can add them separate from any preset or other adjustments; it's like being able to swap what kind of film you used in a camera independent of your other edits!
Ted - this is excellent - like really excellent. Most of the other videos they talk too much but they say nothing. I’m just going to bring down these highlights and take down those shadows😃🤣🤣 why are they doing that? WE DONT KNOW🙄🙄😂🤣🤣🤣 But this video is very clear and very well explained. If I had a hat, I would take it off.
Adobe capture is a free app for your phone that can be used to get Hex values for up to 5 points in an image. I haven't used it for this application yet but I can see it being useful.
Such an amazing and helpul video! You've given me more confidence to dabble with the tone curve and really allowed me to indulge in my curiosity to replicate colour grading from movies (mostly Wes Anderson) and I'm somehow coming across cool film/ retro emulations too! Thank you so much for sharing this video and your knowledge!
I never knew you could change the channel in the LR curves panel. Thanks for the heads up. 3dlutcreator is by far a more powerful color matching tool for LR, PS, and C1.
Not sure if you will be able to help me but here goes. I am a wedding photographer in the UK, Basically i've come across another wedding photographers work online and im in love with the colours she uses on her images. Is there a way you can copy the colours from one of her images and make a preset ?
This is also a fantastic way to make color presets for Lightroom! I was using the HSL and color sliders to get film profiles from some images I found, but this seems way more intuitive. Thanks for another great video Ted!
what if you want to match colors like brown and other nice colors. all you shown here is the curve tool and that all. a update will be good to go more into detail
Can that same effect be done by split toning and adding those colors to highlights and shadows? And what would be the difference between two methods? Thanks great videos!
I’m not sure you were talking quite fast enough. ;-) Seriously, an excellent presentation. I’m eager to add this technique to my tool kit. I’m wondering if it can be combined with split toning...
thx Ted. Valuable lessons in the last 2 vids. But they're not finished. So far this is each time a one time effort. How do we save that and make that reproducible, so we may apply it to other pics as well?
In OS X, under Applications and then Utilities, you have the digital color meter which allows you to measure the colour of anything on your display regardless of your editing software.
I just wanna say thanks for the video. I started off years ago as a penciler, inker & then moved over to be a colourist for a small comic book company. I wasn’t very good. I like retina burning colours (to this day), & I got that from growing up in Central & South America, where many of the indigenous clothing is made from bright bright colours. Learning to see and discern colours are two very different things, and it is important to be able to discern good colour pallets & combinations, and this technique here is a great way to start learning colour theory. I look forward to more of your videos. Thanks again!
Thanks mate, I'm currently studying for a Diploma in Photography, and I had to explain Colour Matching, this video really taught me a lot! 👍
This is the first of your videos I’ve come upon, and just as I’m switching to using Lightroom AND trying to learn more about color grading. This is one of those rare UA-cam videos that caused an immediate breakthrough for me. So rare and so appreciated, thank you!
FANTASTIC!!! I was looking to color match a couple images for a posting. What I got was sooo much more. Now I want to spend the rest of my day color matching some of my own photos to stills from epically graded movies. Good by productivity for today!
I learned so much in this 13 minute video. The fact that my Tone Curve was locked and I needed to unlock it has escaped me for a year. Thanks for.not assuming we all know even the most simplistic things or things others may find simple.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, Ted. I've been using these curves for quite some time and always wanted to tell people how powerful this tool is. Your video not only introduced, in a very understandable manner, how curves work; I also find myself learning new things about it.
that color picker tip at 10:30 is amazing, exactly what I needed to know! thanks alot!
This is fantastic! Most likely many of us will take this concept or idea and run with it as it seems that the possibilities are endless. Like with many things in the arts its important to learn the basics before experimenting. Thanks Mr. Ted Forbes for all these great videos and your passion for Photography!
This is a fantastic video! I haven't seen any "pros" make this seem so simple without charging me $299! Thank so much, Ted!
Hi! Well done! Thank you for he detailed explanation yet so simple to understand. This is a 5 year "old" video but I recon more educational than most, if not all that I've seen so far, recent videos regarding colorgrading. Very interested in the color grading, as a must for the final segment of an image. Cheers
In Capture One, you could probably put both images up side by side, and then add RGB read out labels to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows of both images and then adjust the levels or curves of the new image until the numbers match.
Every day is a school day, this is excellent knowledge to pass on, I've been trying to figure this out on my own without success but has now opened up a new level in my editing process to get the look and feel in my images that I've been after,so thankyou very much for sharing.
Hey Ted,just wanna thank ya for all what you share!! I have learn a tons from you,thanx again!!!
Thanks Ted for another fantastic informative video learned so much in these last two videos
Same here!
fantastic explanation video ,i was looking so long for this tutorial specific for lightroom .thank you so much.the shortcut for the color picker to find the shadows and highlights blew my mind ,using lightroom for so long and you are the first person to mention this ,game-changer !!!!
I've watched about 10 different videos on this RGB blending and colour grading shit, and this is finally my Eureka moment, thankyou!
Absolutely agree. Same path overhear!
Ted - this is the best tutorial I have run across on using the separate RGB channels in the Tone Curve panel in Lightroom, or in Photoshop for that matter. Excellent work and thank you so much.
Just like the last one this is fantastic I've super enjoyed this little series.
I usually watch you cover other photogtaphers, and listen to your more philosophical videos, which is absolutely wonderful, but dang, this is a nice portrait.
Didn’t have a clue that this existed, or knew enough to know about it. Pretty neat stuff. It’s good to learn about the hidden gems. Now I need to try and understand the tone curve more.
I love this video very very much. It's clear me about color control in Lightroom. Thank you Ted.
Like not enough, where do I click for brilliant?!
Yeah it took me a sec to get it too. He forgot to show where he was clicking but you need to select a gradient tool, up where apear the options to crop, brush, etc. you can choose the radial or linear (it doesn’t matter) after selecting it you will see the color option and from there like he said just hold alt/option and click and drag from inside the color box to the area you want to sample. Hope this helps.
thank You very much! You are one of my favourite teachers!
Thanks! These two videos were what was missing from my understanding of "basic" color grading, I can't thank you enough
You are my favorite blogger on UA-cam!
Thirteen minutes of excellence. Thanks Ted.
That color picker is very helpful! Thanks so much!
Best explanation of rgb curves ive seen, thank you!
I'm loving these how-to guides Ted, Thanks!
Thank you for giving us again some good advice... makes me think of the early years of your channel where you were making fantastic content and taking the time to teach us photography in all its depth. Been a follower for years now and will keep on being a fan.. Merci..
Watching this in 2023. This was amazing!! Curves definietly explained amazingly. Cannot wait to experiment with my own images :)
this is heckin great, thank you! balancing 6 colours on 3 layers/channels is breaking my brain, but it's super helpful p.s. the colour picker hack is really cool, thanks for sharing
Wow! Funny how we can get so stoked on the little things. Great tip!
Thank you SOO much!! my product photos look much more professional now!
Thank you very much watching your video helped me much more I had an idea about the color combination but watching your video is easier 🙏
Amazing, Ted! Thanks so much for this lesson, especially the “colour picker” trick in Lightroom and clear explanation of how to use the Tone Curve to achieve colour matching. Brilliant!
My whole problem is solved now in one video thanks alot😍❤️
Your work is timeless!
The best videos on UA-cam bar none! Thank you again Ted
This was a great video as always, great color grading information. The tip about getting the color picker outside the color pallet in Lightroom? Priceless! Thank you once again.
This just blew my mind!!!!
This is incredibly well done, thank you! I'd also be so thrilled to see you do this just in Lightroom CC-- there are a couple features you used in classic that CC doesn't have unfortunately 😥
Thank you. Always nice and professional!
Thank you for your help. you make me understand better how to use and think about tone curves !
Excellent video, earned a sub. Very helpful, to the point, and no BS. Love it.
Thanks for these videos Ted.
After watching them I've pulled out all my old stuff shot on Fuji c200 and got a pretty close profile. Very happy with this and I'll be using this for a project I'm working on. Thanks for the great content
ciao Ted, do you have an update of this tutorial?Maybe with the latest release of Lightroom can be less difficult to color-match a movie scene?! ^_^
Great video! I've been playing with color tone curves a good bit lately but that color picker trick will save me soooo much time. Thanks!
I've started saving off my favorite sets of curves as custom curves. That way I can add them separate from any preset or other adjustments; it's like being able to swap what kind of film you used in a camera independent of your other edits!
Ted - this is excellent - like really excellent. Most of the other videos they talk too much but they say nothing.
I’m just going to bring down these highlights and take down those shadows😃🤣🤣 why are they doing that? WE DONT KNOW🙄🙄😂🤣🤣🤣
But this video is very clear and very well explained.
If I had a hat, I would take it off.
Wow! That's amazing...picking colors using the Alt key! Thanks!
What? This is unbelievable, wow. Thank you so much!!
thanks for the tutorial. that's very help me for getting color i want!
Thanks Ted another excellent tutorail
This is fabulous. I’m going to give this concept a try in Premiere Pro for my videos.
More vids like this Ted. Learned loads
i love you man, thanks for this tutorials, you are the best
Thank you so much! Very helpful. What picture profile should I use for my photos? Is adobe color the right one? Or should I use in camera profiles?
Incredible tutorial
Adobe capture is a free app for your phone that can be used to get Hex values for up to 5 points in an image. I haven't used it for this application yet but I can see it being useful.
Neat, clear, and direct. Thank you
Woah RGB Tone Curve finally make sense to me now lol Thank You Ted!!!!!!!
I learned more about the tone curve tool here, than I have in most videos. Thank you! :-D
Such an amazing and helpul video! You've given me more confidence to dabble with the tone curve and really allowed me to indulge in my curiosity to replicate colour grading from movies (mostly Wes Anderson) and I'm somehow coming across cool film/ retro emulations too! Thank you so much for sharing this video and your knowledge!
This the best video explaining the curves and color. Thank you so much. You rock
Very interesting video! Thanks.
I never knew you could change the channel in the LR curves panel. Thanks for the heads up. 3dlutcreator is by far a more powerful color matching tool for LR, PS, and C1.
Brilliant Tutorial - thanks so much!!
Great info, very useful.... I like to make as many adjustments in Lightroom as possible! Thanks sir!
Wow I actually learned something. Thanks Ted!
Ted the Terrific!!!!! Thanks so much
Great! Thanks. Also - Amelie is a great film :)
You're the Man Ted!
Fantastic lesson. Thanks.
Thanks Ted. I learned a lot.
Not sure if you will be able to help me but here goes. I am a wedding photographer in the UK, Basically i've come across another wedding photographers work online and im in love with the colours she uses on her images. Is there a way you can copy the colours from one of her images and make a preset ?
Very informative video. Makes it so much easier to understand how powerful the curves are and how to replicate certain looks. Really cool!
Great stuff 🙏
Sincerely grateful, greetings from argentina
Thanks Ted!
Brilliant ... fantastic tutorial.
Peter
This is just exactly the thing I was looking for.
To the point! Thanks for the learning!
This is great. I’m going to try it. Thanks!
Thanks a lot Ted
This is also a fantastic way to make color presets for Lightroom! I was using the HSL and color sliders to get film profiles from some images I found, but this seems way more intuitive. Thanks for another great video Ted!
what if you want to match colors like brown and other nice colors. all you shown here is the curve tool and that all. a update will be good to go more into detail
This is great! Easy enough to digest for newbs. Keep it up Ted 👍👍
Very good stuff. Thank you👍
thank you so much. that was so patiently explained, finally i got it
This was so enlightening. Pardon the pun but Ted was very helpful
Double Like!! Awesome video!
Very clear, thanks
well explained, thanks for this!
Can that same effect be done by split toning and adding those colors to highlights and shadows? And what would be the difference between two methods? Thanks great videos!
Thanks, your tutorials are great.
Brilliant! Thanks
Loved it
I’m not sure you were talking quite fast enough. ;-)
Seriously, an excellent presentation. I’m eager to add this technique to my tool kit. I’m wondering if it can be combined with split toning...
thx Ted. Valuable lessons in the last 2 vids. But they're not finished. So far this is each time a one time effort. How do we save that and make that reproducible, so we may apply it to other pics as well?
Save as preset