We will give you a detailed analysis of the photoshop software and share with you the tutorials on how to use 3D LUT to create a movie color effect.
Tutorial sharing:
1. Scenery
First, let's take an example of an external scene. Open the image and you can see the flaws in the image. The overall exposure is relatively dark, the color comparison is not very obvious, the gray-scale content is large, and the orange part has a highlighted overflow. The specific effect is shown in the figure below.
Because I enable the highlighted alarm in ACR, the overflow part is displayed in red. Similarly, there is a warning in the dark part, which is displayed in blue, in the histogram, two small triangles are used to control the switch warning.
Therefore, we will perform some basic operations, but the basic operations here will be the opposite!
Principle: in simple terms, 3D LUT color is equivalent to the built-in filter function that we often use. Some filters change not only the color parameters such as the color, color, and so on, some 3D LUT effects will also be changed on the exposure and contrast settings. Therefore, after normal adjustment, the photo parameters will be added with the 3D LUT parameters, the tragic situation can be imagined. If you still don't understand it, you can think about the non-mainstream style film of the year. A good film will be destroyed, and the principle is the same.
Therefore, what we need to do is to retain more details of the original piece. In ACR, you can adjust the contrast, black, white, highlight, shadow, and so on to adjust the picture to ultra-low contrast, that is, the overall picture is gray to fly up, however, this gray color should ensure that the dark details in the image should be displayed, and the highlight details should be retrieved and dimmed. This is what we need to do before the 3D LUT color.
As you can see, I pulled the two slide of highlight and white to the lowest level. The reason for this step is that the details are retrieved. I have mentioned this in the previous article, if you are not clear about it, please read it back. The effect is as shown in the following figure.
The highlight warning disappears in the image, and the overall color of the image is heavily grayed out,! All the details are displayed, whether in highlights or shadows.
Click "open Image" and enter the PS interface for processing. Select a 3D LUT file. Here I select this file. Different situations have different options.
PS: For 3D LUT file names, each file has an exclusive feature name. For example, "film" indicates the meaning of a movie, therefore, the color is based on the blue color of the movie, and the 3D LUT files are the model or effect code of the film. Therefore, if you do not know which style of film you want, you can click it to view the effect and the file name.
Okay. Back to the question. After the color is applied, we can see that the dark color has a very beautiful dark green mixed blue. After the color is complete, we can make some minor adjustments, such as changing the color, brightness and saturation.
Here, I would like to tell you that only PS CC is available, that is, you can return to the ACR interface at any time to adjust the image so that it is more convenient!
After fine-tuning the details, we need to add the movie border. Select the "Rectangular Selection" tool in the toolbar. The ratio is fixed at, pull out the selection area, reverse Ctrl + shift + I, select the upper and lower two wide screen black sides, fill the black! Like this!
OK, is there a feeling of taking screenshots of a movie, and there is no effect that some apps are too serious to overhead in color.
Compare the original slice. Is it much better ~
If you like to add words under the photo, please select a text tool and arrange the version. Your own "movie sense" photo will be complete!
II. Figures
Some may ask, is it true that 3D LUT can only be used to tune the wind rays? I want to finish the color for my favorite sister ......
In fact, 3D LUT is also applicable to portraits! It is still a chestnut ~
There are also a lot of problems with the original film, so it also carries out some basic processing, and then, like the landscape above, first shows all the details of the photo to make it a low contrast, process details retrieval and so on ~
Then import the PS interface. In this photo, I select the file shown in the figure.
The color is more elegant than the original one.
After the adjustment, we can proceed with some subsequent operations ~ This is the final film.
PS: a little bit of experience on tuning. Even if 3D LUT is good, it is also affected by the overall color of the photo. For example, many literary and artistic children like the colors of fuji film, which are green. If you want to maximize the effect of a FUJI-style photo, the most important thing is that there must be a lot of green and blue colors in the color system. If such colors are missing in the overall environment, for example films, the effect can only be very general or opposite. Therefore, in the use of 3D LUT, it is also an important step to analyze the color of photos ~~~
So Let's summarize the key points ~
1.3D LUT color is used to ensure that the photo's light and shade details are fully retained. The 3D LUT effect is to overlay and mix the colors of the original layers, low contrast ensures that the dark color is not too heavy and the highlights are not exposed.
2. It is not an easy-to-do operation in the later stage. Local adjustment can make the photo icing on the cake!
3.3D LUT coloring is only a basic tone adjustment function, not a one-step approach. More details need to be adjusted again.
4. in fact, this article does not completely go to the dark to create a wide screen effect APP, mainly because of the miserable translation and the non-mainstream colors. At that time, it broke my circle of friends, then I shut down for a day! All the later stages are icing on the cake, and the later stages will be counterproductive. Therefore, the mobile phone photography APP also needs to be explored frequently ~
5. Not every 3D LUT color will need to change the photo into a very high gray-scale and low-contrast film, or that sentence. The specific analysis of the specific situation makes it boring to play photography ~
All right, the above information is all the content that I have shared with the users of this software of photoshop in detail using 3D LUT to create a film color effect, I believe that the software users here are very clear about the post-processing tutorial, then, let's follow the small series of tutorials to try to bring up pictures of the film's color effect.
