Let's give you a detailed analysis of the three commonly used Japanese color matching skills.
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In this photo, I think it is worth noting that there are three characteristics in the future. It seems that I have never encountered a similar case before.
I. Sky
Everyone should pay attention to observe the sky part in this photo. It is not our common Sky form, but like being pasted with a blue color, and its influence scope is limited to the upper half of the picture, it does not extend to the overall picture, forming a linear gradient effect.
2. Road colors
In this photo, the Trojan color is obviously blue, but the wall is less affected by the blue color.
3. Overall tone
The overall color of the screen is cool, but there is no obvious low-light or high-light missing feature.
Through the histogram, we can see that the overall brightness of the screen is still bright, and there are only a few pixels in the shadow part of the screen.
Therefore, our later thought is:
I. Highlight
The effect is shown in the following figure:
2. Rendering the road color
When rendering the road color, we can directly use the color balancing tool to render the road color by adding blue to the shadow.
However, after the operation, we found that the shadow area in the screen is still too large, resulting in the overall picture being adjusted:
At this time, we can adopt the idea of partition adjustment, so that our effect is only applied to the image.
We apply a mask to the color balancing tool so that the effect is only applied to the ground:
Partition adjustment is widely used. Color balancing tools, selection + adjustment, mask + adjustment, and high/low light adjustment are all partition adjustments, but the classification basis is different, we can flexibly choose based on our own needs.
3. Adjust the color level
Let's adjust the color order to make the image more transparent:
IV. Rendering screen tones
Then we create a new layer to fill in the color:
Then, change the mixed mode of the layer to soft light. The image effect is shown in the following figure:
We should pay attention to an important feature of the soft-light hybrid mode, that is, if the filled soft-light layer is brighter, the screen will eventually become brighter, the filled soft-light layer is darker, and the screen will eventually become darker.
Because our colors are obtained from the effect chart, we use the soft light layer + hybrid mode to render the color, not only to bring the color of the screen closer to the effect chart, it can also bring the picture exposure closer to the effect chart, which is the unique function of the soft light layer.
5. Rendering the Sky
Finally, let's render the form of the sky. First we create a new layer, and then pull a blue color to a colorless gradient. The screen effect is shown in the figure:
If we only adjust the opacity of the layer, it is difficult to achieve the effect of the source image:
At this time, we need to use a hybrid mode: Dark mixed mode.
The calculation principle of the dark blending mode is to compare the pixels of the blending layer with the source image layer. The pixels of the source image are dark, and the final image uses the layer.
The difference between this mode and the dark blending mode is that the dark blending mode compares the darker ones of a single channel, while the dark blending mode compares the darker ones of the entire pixel. Therefore, the dark blending mode does not produce new colors, while the dark blending mode generates new colors out of the mixing layer and the source layer.
Here, we don't need to create a new color, just need to let our gradient layer and the source image layer fusion, so select the dark mixed mode.
Change the blending mode of the gradient layer to dark, as shown in the following figure:
At last, sharpen the image and adjust the contrast:
This photo has three interesting places:
The first is the backdrop-like sky.
Second, the Post-thought of partition adjustment.
Third, the compliance of the soft-light hybrid mode in terms of exposure and color.
All right, the above information is the detailed three commonly-used color coloring skills provided by photoshop users, you can see that the software users here, Xiaobian believes that you are now very clear about the color technology, then, let's go and follow the tutorials provided by the mini-editor to try color matching.
