Color Grade Sampling From Any Image With TK9
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Color grade sampling from the same image
4:03 - Color grade sampling from a different image
6:19 - Color grade sampling from a painting
8:01 - Sampling the average highlight, mid-tone and shadow colors
Color Grade Sampling From Any Image with TK9. The TK Plugin for Photoshop makes luminosity masks, zone masks, color masks, and saturation masks and performs a wide range of actions and functions to make Photoshop more efficient and creative for any photographer. - Навчання та стиль
Sean this was so helpful. Thanks for sharing this with the community.
Sean, My favorite part of your TK9 Button by Button Guide is your - TK9 Workflow Demonstration. This video is a great addition . . . keep them coming. Consider a Master Class where we could subscribe to promote more of these. Your videos enable us to go beyond our equipment limitations. Thanks again, Jim
Thanks Sean Bagshaw for this and your Button Guide Video's. With yourself, The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly and of course Tony Kuyper's fantastic product this has added another level of art to my photography.
So great to hear Tony! Appreciate it.
Thanks Sean. Great technique.
Excellent advice, I especially like the last example.
Great video, but could you please in future videos you post, say before and after when switching the eyeball on and off for the layer? Your hand cursor is so big I can't tell when its off or on. I'm a fan of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand and other artists from the Hudson River School art movement. Their landscape paintings are amazing. Thank you for showing how to borrow color grades (or try to mimic them) from other pics and paintings using the TK9 color grading tool. Really cool !
Great! Downloaded and added to the library of videos for TK9. Thanks for the file!
Sean this is fantastic. I am teaching a zoom class on color grading next week. I am now going to show this and recommend everyone get TK9 and your course (my bet is everyone already has them but this will certainly interest them in getting them if they don't already have them.)
Many thanks Phil!
Excellent tutorial which I will certainly be putting to good use. Thank you Sean.
Another eye-opening tutorial, Sean!! I will definitely save this with your button-by-button videos.
I’m always learning from your videos…your teaching style is second to none. Thank you!!
Thank you. I have been using another technique to copy a color grade from one image to another and this technique using the TK9 panel is much simpler.
Wonderful!
so many puzzles about color grading (LR just never works) solved, sean, my thanks.
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Sean, Thanks! One more reason why I rave about TK9 with my students.
Sean great tip. I really liked how you used the GIF file. Pretty cool. I must give this a try.
Cheers Dave! That was actually something Tony saw somewhere and passed on to me. Wish I could take credit for it. 😁
I believe there's a filter that can achieve this effect right in the window in one step, posterize maybe?
Just a great, quick lesson. One I’ll keep and use. Thanks Sean.
Very informative and helpful, love the tutorial! Thank you so much Sean! Good luck!
This is so cool! I have always struggled with the Lightroom color grading tool. These techniques will make it so much easier and consistent. Well done!
Thanks Sean. You are a great teacher.
Sean, what a blessing you are. I have been trying to figure out color grading for the last 2 years. The TK9 and Button by button courses are the best investment I have ever made. 💡A light Just got turned on. Thank you for all your hard work! Love Rees
That is awesome Rees! Love the lightbulb moments!
Thank you for this great tutorial, Sean. And specially thank you for allowing us to download it so we can add it to your full TK9 guide. Very helpful indeed! Thank you.
My pleasure!
Wow just brilliant tutorial really love the precision of using the average colours that edit was magic, been wanting to learn how to match colour for a while and you explained it so well and made it easy, really excited to learn more with the new TK9
Right on Amy! It still takes some fiddling and practice but I find this tool really helps.
I like this. I have added this video to my folder. Thanks for sharing.
Another amazing tutorial. Thank you. I just bought the guide TK 9 Button. Naow I have muche to study because my english knowledge is weak. 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for this, Sean. My Photoshop skills have recently improved to the point where I can really appreciate how the TK panels can help me. The fact that this has coincided with the upgrade to TK9 is very exciting.
And your videos are not only making working with Photoshop easier, they are introducing great new tools and techniques to adopt. Thank you! 😎👍
Great to hear!
You are the number one! Thank you!
This was amazing to watch Sean. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
wow this is a fantastic tutorial on color sampling/grading extremely helpful!
Glad it was helpful, Ben!
Thank you for this great tutorial 👍
Thanks for this excellent color grading tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a great tip. Thanks. By the way I am enjoying your Button by Button Guide. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly.
You're very welcome!
Sean, an excellent tutorial thanks!
My pleasure!
Great technique! Averaging the colors may be especially helpful to people, like me, with deficient color vision (color "blindness").
Absolutely! It doesn’t nail it every time but certainly makes it easier to get to a starting point. And under the intent you can also try the options other than perceptual. They can give slight variations on the average colors.
Hey Sean, great vid - made me purchase TK9. Question: Is there no way to finetune saturation without clicking in the color wheel? Kinda easy to jump +-10 or so in HUE when doing so. If not, any recommendation on how to work around this? Add separate layers for shadows/midtones/highlights and adjust opacity?
I don’t have a good way to fine tune. Apparently Tony is somewhat limited in what the code allows for here.
Color grading is about changing colors, so the Hue is likely going to shift when you do it and a shift of +/- 10 is almost imperceptible. Anything less than that and you're not going to see much happening in the image. So, I'm not sure why the Hue shift would be an issue given that it is precisely the reason for color grading in many cases. Regarding saturation, color grading is accomplished using a Curves adjustment layer, and anytime you increase the slope of the curve, saturation increases. That's just how a Curves adjustment layer works. One way to lessen saturation changes is to NOT adjust the brightness slider when you adjust a tonal range's color. Just make color adjustments using the color wheel. Both highlights and shadows color adjustment done by clicking on the color wheel actually DECREASES overall contrast by DECREASING the slope of the individual color channel curves. Adjusting the color of the midtones by clicking on the color wheel is as neutral WRT saturation as I can make. The slope of some color channel curves increases, but others decrease depending on what color is clicked. That said, saturation shifts are often exactly what is desirable with color grading. Many photographers do color grading specifically to ADD saturation in specific colors. So, again, I don't necessarily see saturation shifts as being undesirable. That might be exactly what is intended, and the color grading feature makes it relatively easy to accomplish.
You're more likely to see excessive or unexpected saturation shifts when you start adjusting the Brightness slider in conjunction with adjusting hue/saturation by clicking on the color wheel since a Brightness adjustment is more likely to increase the slope of the curve, which increases overall saturation. One way to avoid saturation from Brightness changes is to change the blend mode of the Color Grading layer to "Color" instead of "Normal." This will transmit the hue and saturation changes based on where you clicked on the color wheel to the image and basically turn off adjustments that involve Brightness/Contrast that happen with the Brightness slider. Then add a Levels adjustment layer in "Luminosity" blend mode to fine-tune the overall contrast w/o affecting color. I think many photographers will find they can easily create a desirable color grade that includes hue, saturation, and contrast on a single color grading layer, but by using blend modes, you can accomplish the color changes on the Color Grading layer and the contrast changes on a Levels adjustment layer independently. The color grading layer is the only place you can do the hue and saturation changes with one click and experiment with alternatives by easily clicking elsewhere on the color wheel. So, if you need finer control over contrast/saturation than the color grading layer can provide, I'd still recommend using the color grading layer for the hue and saturation adjustments with Color Blend mode.
@@TonyKuyper This is very interesting to know.Thank you very much for the info and suggestions!
Since this is adjusting RGB curves, any recommendations on how to use it in workflow when coming from Lightroom? Adjust colors & curves to liking in LR first, then "finetune" with this - or just do basic LR edits then apply TK color grading?
Either of those approaches can work great. There really isn’t a prescribed method. Sometimes if I know ahead of time how I will color grade I will make minimal adjustments in Lr and this gives the most latitude in Ps. Other times I have done heavy edits in Lr and Ps already and then decide I want to apply a slight color shift towards the end of the process. If you open as a raw smart object, then you can also go back and forth between Lr color work and Ps color work until you get just the right combo. So many possibilities. 😁
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks buddy, appreciate the input
I'm using Photoshop on a Mac. I an not allowed to select a color from another document. Both are open, and the one I want to modify is selected with the color grade selected. The color picker only allows me select colors from the current document, not any other document. Is this a Mac difference?
Sean, how do you open both images in PS like that? Simple question, I know but can’t figure that out…
Hi Brad…go to Window>Arrange>Two Up Vertical.
Brilliant. I am, though, having problems saving. I click on the icon but nothing happens. Has anyone had this issue or am I missing a step out?
Hi Louis. Saving what? Which button? If you give me some more specifics I’d be glad to try to help out.
@@SeanBagshaw hi Sean. It’s when I try to save the colour grade after I’ve sampled the colours and made alterations to the settings. I click on the preset icon to save it but nothing happens, the options that appear in the video don’t appear.
Hi there, Please help! i'm working on your Land selection exposure blending and at the moment to load the selection channel into the layer mask, it doesn't work.... i'm on photoshop 24 and TK9 on a macbook pro. i don't understand why... what is the shortcut to load the channel on mac? thank you very much!
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