Analysis of the method and technique of PS curve color blending

To achieve a fast color palette, curve tools must be mastered. It is based on the studio for the adjustment of "fast, stable, accurate" requirements, we should recognize the curve-this convenient, practical and powerful tool. The following small series for everyone to bring the PS curve palette ideas and techniques to analyze the case, take a look at it!

First of all, this tutorial will be more about thinking, not a specific method, not for beginners. Another tutorial is very individualistic, perhaps some of the wrong writing, I hope to understand a lot. Always want to write a summary of color, for this also trouble a lot of people, to their own secret weapon, and then summed up here.

First of all, I would like to thank all of you for my tired advice to give support, there are some master PO to the ultimate film let us enjoy learning. No more than one by one points, thanks to the words, are in the heart. From the first half of the year to now, my own film has also undergone a great change, from the rich color has become quite light-"Singapore's Minutiae" series is a typical representative.

Style, as a whole is gray, faint, like boiled water.

In fact, this feeling of the film, the train of thought is very simple, the central idea is only one: add Ash. What is grey? There has been an explanation in the last copy.

The following figure, lightness and the reduction of purity can make the overall color bias soft. There are many ways to add ash, such as: gray monochrome layer, curve, saturation, optional color, color levels can achieve the effect of ash.

But these are only the process, the specific choice of which is arbitrary, the key is, the specific price how much. The test is in your eyes.

My favorite is to use the curve, of course, this and I like to use DPP to do preliminary adjustment related. For example, this picture, the original film and repair after the contrast, to remove color, light and shade some small changes.

The change is characterized by no black field after repair (added ash), but there are some controls on the light part.

So the first step of the change is to adjust the light and shade, according to just said that train of thought, pull up the black field, control the high lighting part.

And then it became this:

Of course, this kind of gray is a bit dirty, and then it will start to color. When it comes to color matching, there is a very important idea that is "balance". Even if the film has a main color, but also to take care of the balance of the film is pleasing to the eye. My balance here can be understood as a balance of warm and cold, such as this picture of the film, although the overall tone is cool, but the roof, plants and trash cans also maintain its warm colors, so that the whole movie is not blindly cold. Warm and cold echoes to achieve balance, the film will look more pleasing to the eye.

About the warm and cold, in the color balance can be seen more clearly. Red, green, yellow, the proportion of large film, the overall feeling will be relatively warm, and cyan, magenta, blue accounted for a large proportion of the film, the overall feeling will be relatively cold. For example, if you repair a picture, the bright part of the green, then the dark part of the red can be a certain degree of neutralization off the overall cold perception, and so on.

I also found a rule that warm color films are generally brighter than the same brightness of the cool film gives people a more bright impression. That is to say, if a photograph, the bright part is green, the dark part is red.

will give a person to the bright part of the dark part of the visual effect of light, if the other side of the bright red, dark part of the green, the hurrying feet will be brighter dark part brighter.

The above example can be very obvious to see the difference in perception, the bright red dark part of the film to think that the photo bright part of the dark darkened so through a lot, and the bright part of the dark red film, it felt soft a lot. Exactly which color is good of course depends on your choice.

The general theory has said so much, concrete how to adjust? According to personal habits, Singapore's films, after adjusting the light and shade, the basic is the balance of green red.

My general practice is to first light the dark part of the black red to make the photo soft down, and then by adjusting the "green-magenta" and "blue-yellow" curve slightly balance warm and cold.

Analysis Example 1:

1, after adjusting the light and shade, made the bright part of the black and red on the dark side of the treatment.

2, the green curve light partial magenta to adjust the sky, the dark part of the green to medium and warm and cool and highlight the color of the plant.

3, Blue curve bright part of the blue adjustment of the sky, dark yellow adjustment plants and garbage cans color.

This picture is mostly white, so the color of the light determines the whole picture's well-being. Just do the processing, the bright part of the green, magenta, blue, are cool, so the overall picture is cold.

Analysis Example 2:

1, in the adjustment of light and shade, made the middle point of the high optical bias red treatment.

2, the green curve of the whole pull high highlighting clouds and plant color.

3, Blue curve white field directly pull low (yellow), light and intermediate tone properly restored blue.

This picture of the light and dark part of the basic can be accounted for half, because the high light of the middle point of the red has been neutralized, the red curve does not affect the overall well-being. But the green curve is biased green and

The blue curve of the yellow color is warm, so the overall create a warm atmosphere.

Analysis Example 3-1:

1, after adjusting the light and shade, because it is portrait so must take care of skin color, made the whole of the treatment of red, but in the bright part of the red has a certain control so will not be biased.

2, Green curve of the overall green to make the red curve of the red is not so prominent, but the dark part of the lighter than a little bit more. This is because the color is concentrated in the light, so the main color is mainly red, and the dark hair color can not be too red, so more green to the middle and the red hair color.

3, Blue curve white field directly pull low (yellow), light and intermediate tone properly restored blue. The reason for doing this is also to take care of the complexion, the light part and the middle point proper recovery is to balance.

Analysis Example 3-2:

The RGB curve and the red curve method are identical to 3-1. and 3-1 different is that the green curve light biased magenta and blue curve light biased blue, combined to form a piece of pink purple color and the sky, the overall color on the basic positioning of the cold. Of course, DPP can not complete all the palette, this is only the first repair, hair color and shadow also need to be polished in the PS.

The end of the tutorial, the above is the PS curve color mixing ideas and techniques to resolve the case, I hope to help you, thank you for reading!

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