5 PRACTICAL Uses for Color Calibration in ACR & Lightroom

[@itaiazerad5595]

After ignoring the color calibration panel for years, I started using it this year and it has ROCKED my world. But I never thought of layer blend modes or masking. Genius! Thanks for the hot tips Blake!

[@BruceKorb]

"87 pixels of red" -- terminology point, the *one* pixel you're looking at has a red "level" of 87 out of 255. :)

[@f64Academy]

Yeah, you know sometines when you are recording a video you say things and you know what you meant to say but you say something else... Yeah... Try making a video, lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@BruceKorb]

@@f64Academy I only mentioned it 'cuz you were so consistent about it. :) Can't say that I've never made mistakes either. :)

[@nueljhonmaglente8729]

I'm a new subscriber here!!!! amazing work dudes.

[@f64Academy]

Thanks 😁

[@SinaFarhat]

The Calibration sliders are some of my favorite tools! They help me to get that saturated look that I am currently into! Have a nice weekend!

[@hurleygreen927]

Great tutorial! And you're right...most of us just skip over the Calibration section: THANKS!

[@f64Academy]

It's an important piece to the puzzle 😁

[@shadowfoxsports]

I have been using Color Calibration for about a year now. But you just showed me how to use it in a more effective manner. Thank you.

[@garypeterson555]

Blake, after watching this tutorial I worked on a picture of mine, which was a night shot of a wall of a building with lettering which is lit by three lamps. I have loved the picture but when I used calibration the colors popped! It made the lettering look almost 3D. I couldn't believe how much an image I already thought was good got do much better. I can't wait to go back and rework some more older photos. Thank you!

[@f64Academy]

That's awesome! I love that you put it into practice! Good on you 😁

[@ianbrowne9304]

Thanks Blake ; someone (maybe you) showed me the Color calibration tip/tricks quite some time ago and this video gave more ideas to explore . I actually have 34% blue saturation in my "LR start up" preset used on most raw files --- gives me a sort of off the card jpeg look . Then there are presets to add/remove different variations for all the colours that will be used more as I try to break out of the "always done it like the natural look" mode . Gotta love the model's amazing hair !

[@dineshsrkr]

I always wonder why you have so few subscribers! Your channel has everything. Gosh! We need to share more of your work.

[@f64Academy]

That would be very helpful 😁 thank you!

[@JohnWilliams-fc3xi]

Excellent video - I am one of those who never even used calibration, I now have a sense of what I have been missing. thanks - subscribed

[@artplasma3538]

To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial. Thankyou.

[@jellybinn]

awesomely helpful. liked. subscribed!

[@f64Academy]

Woot! Thanks!

[@RobtJMooreII]

To clarify, the RGB numbers refer to percentages of each, and are not a pixel count of the color. This is made more clear by the presence of fractions in some of the numbers - as pixels can't be divided any smaller than they are.

[@f64Academy]

Yeah, that was a brain fart, lol, it happens when you make videos. Thanks for clarifying.

[@christophebroult3214]

Nice presentation with concrete examples. Thank you.

[@f64Academy]

Thank you! I appreciate it😁

[@ProfMary]

Very helpful reminder about the 'forgotten' calibration tool in LR and ACR, Blake. Thanks for showing us 5 ways the calibration can be used in our workflow.

[@Meisalfoto]

Thank you! this was very helpful and made the process alot more smooth when editing

[@chrispatmore8944]

The calibration tool is the main thing that makes me stick with ACR for RAW processing, and I’ve tried most of the other ones. In pre-COVID times I shot live music in small venues and it was the only tool that would help correct the colour cast from the terrible LED lighting. Even in larger venues with decent lighting rigs it still helped give the musicians better skin tones.

[@f64Academy]

That sounds like a great use for it

[@sanjayvenkatesh4651]

What is ACR?

[@chrispatmore8944]

@@sanjayvenkatesh4651 Adobe Camera Raw

[@MichaelChapmanNatchez]

@@sanjayvenkatesh4651 Adobe Camera Raw

[@rolandrick]

🤓 what’s that for an interesting brush you’re using around 9:00?

[@f64Academy]

It's a brush I made from this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZysYauDhJudr6c

[@rolandrick]

@@f64Academy Thanks 🙌

[@richardbradley2641]

Again, mind blown this is going to be my new goto adjustment :-) The master strikes again :-)

[@artplasma3538]

To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial. Thankyou.

[@sleepysleepy9913]

Ive taken a couple Photoshop courses. Yours is by far the best. I actually feel like I know what I'm doing now

[@f64Academy]

I love it! I'm just glad I can help 😁

[@Minyx76]

Blake Rudis my photoshop-hero. Again a great, helpful video. Thank you very much.

[@f64Academy]

Haha, thanks, glad you liked it.

[@dmitripopov8570]

As always, very interesting!

[@kansascityrc]

I've been using calibration for a while now but never thought to use it at the end of the work flow. Great info and video Blake! 😃

[@f64Academy]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@javiergonzalez-gavira1283]

Thanks so much Blake. Great video!

[@f64Academy]

The pleasure is all mine!

[@FocusedNatureWithUtkarsh]

Nice tutorial.... thanks for sharing.... Subscribed

[@f64Academy]

Woohoo! Thanks so much!

[@Pawel__M]

A great video about the great tool! :) From time, I convert my pictures to black-and-white. The combination of Color Calibration, Color Mixer and Basic Adjustments is so much more powerful than simply desaturating the image or using one of the built-in BW filters (red etc.)

[@f64Academy]

Absolutely 😁

[@judyboyd9530]

I am going try this for sure! You always have great videos. Thank you 😊

[@artplasma3538]

To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial. Thankyou.

[@christianalbertolaguna2104]

You won a new suscriber!

[@f64Academy]

Woot 😁

[@paultaddayphotography7205]

Blake, I watched your calibration video in July 2020 and I've used those tips a lot ever since. It's really shifted my thinking when it comes to tonality and colour range, especially using it as a starting point before adjusting colours further in Photoshop. What a massive difference it makes.

[@RootHopper]

Another great tutorial from Blake! Always a new way to look at things and always so much more beneficial than what I've been doing! Thanks!!

[@f64Academy]

😁 I'm just glad I can help, is all my pleasure to see your growth. Thanks for sticking it out!

[@TanerAcarPhotography]

GREAT WORK

[@f64Academy]

Than you 😁

[@artplasma3538]

To see more interesting videos you can visit our channel where we provide very useful tutorial. Thankyou.

[@jenhongkong]

Great video as always Blake, thank you. I actually do use this tool, but only because you taught me how!!

[@ctenos45069]

Excellent video, Professor “C”

[@f64Academy]

😁😁😁 thanks!

[@rickb6029]

When looking at the red, green, and blue histograms in a certain small area in the image, aren't the r, g, b numbers displayed actually the average values on a scale of 0 to 255, rather than number of pixels?

[@f64Academy]

Yes 0-255, it's just easier to think about it that way.

[@roderickwho1983]

Thanks Blake, this is a real eye-opener :-) Em, during the intro you refer to "very little people". Is this a crack at Gavin (phototripper) ?? If so, kudos to you !

[@f64Academy]

Haha! Rephrase, few people... Lol

[@cesaralexander4753]

Very helpful!

[@f64Academy]

Glad you thought so!

[@Birenbaj05]

Thank you !Blake, One more great on COLOR 👍 Love from Nepal

[@f64Academy]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁

[@liverpoolpictorial]

Great video. I use Calibration a lot near the end of my workflow prior to Color Mixer, but it was a case of "suck it and see." I'll be more objective after this. Thanks Blake! :)

[@f64Academy]

My pleasure! Glad you like it!

[@pattyprior2171]

great video very helpful... I am super new (only had my camera and lightroom for about 6 weeks).. so total newbie ignorant question.. how do you move the tools so that you can get them in order of how you would like to edit your pictures

[@Heartbeat_Adventures]

Do you have a tutorial for the brush that you're using for the masks in this video?

[@f64Academy]

I sure do: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZysYauDhJudr6c

[@Heartbeat_Adventures]

@@f64Academy ooo! Thanks so much!

[@ivoryphotographykenya4078]

Very Brilliant...

[@f64Academy]

Thank you!

[@zengiskhan1286]

Great video, hope every video with sample landscape and photo and more different object. Thank you

[@f64Academy]

Most of my videos are landscape as that's what I primarily shoot.

[@jeffellis6544]

Excellent tip. Thank you Blake. For a while now I’ve known that boosting the blue primary does really great things for a landscape photo and sometimes even portraits. But this adds new dimensions to that tool. Is there a point when boosting the saturation in the calibration starts to degrade the image? Because it seems like you can go all the way to 100% and it doesn’t Look like the image becomes posterized. What do we have to be careful about when boosting these levels?

[@f64Academy]

You can definitely push these colors pretty far without pasteurization. It's a very natural boost but when you take them too far they do look unnatural. Always a balance to maintain a natural saturation in your images.

[@eazygfx4815]

How do you re-order those filters & put calibration near the top?

[@f64Academy]

Right click inside the empty space below all the settings

[@eazygfx4815]

@@f64Academy ohh found it! Thank you & super useful video

[@keonvisuals1]

Thank you so much sir

[@radiozelaza]

I use it all the time. Even for grading video

[@f64Academy]

That's a great use for it. Although the rendering time would be atrocious on long videos!

[@ramonparnau197]

Calibration panel in Lightroom ?! I had work with it in Lightroom Classic but it was not available in Lightroom (CC / Mobile) !?

[@visualsbytanaka]

how do I move the calibration panel to the top

[@f64Academy]

Right click in that space on the right. Theres an option in there to move the menu items. Follow the prompt for moving them.

[@shekhar.prasad]

Somehow I am unable to see the color calibration in Lightroom :(

[@barrysharoff6537]

Excellent video. Just one criticism: when showing results of your adjustments--slooow down and give me a chance to see the before and after difference.

[@gavanmitchell4203]

I mean you can use this I guess. But that's meant to be what the Color Mixer menu is for. The Calibration menu is there to help you create a calibration setting for your camera. Usually after photographing a MacBeth colorchecker chart under controlled lighting.

[@f64Academy]

True, but there is much better and gives a more natural boost to your colors. Experiment with it, then use the color mixer. As for the order of things this is essentially read first therefore your color mixer results will be better.

[@janvandemaat]

Great video, thanks! I did use this function already but is there a way to use the color calibration sliders at the Loupedeck Plus in Lightroom CC?? That would really speed up my workflow!

[@f64Academy]

You probably could, loupedeck is pretty customizable, but I don't think that would speed it up as much as knowing how to use this tool. Moving the mouse or a knob, either way they are fast.

[@Alan_and_Shannon]

I cant find this function on my lightroom, has anyone else had this issue?

[@playoflightphotographicsllc]

It's in the Calibration tool set. Check and see if it is turned off by chance.

[@markdemarte6744]

Blake, In ACR how do you move the calibration panel up the list so it falls under the Basic panel

[@f64Academy]

Right click inside that space and you should get some configuration options

[@markdemarte6744]

@@f64Academy Thank you!

[@jonasweiss5817]

Very little people are more technical. They compensate!

[@PaulScott_]

Thanks for the great information. I have been colorizing WW2 imaged for a family project and "something" seemed to be dull and missing and Hue/Sat and/or contrast sometimes pushed to colors into an unreal look. I watched the first part of the video, tried it and it worked great. Then I continued watching your video and you mentioned skin tones and how it improves them LOL. It also somehow seems to "unify" all the colors in the colorized image and make them blend together more naturally. Take Care and Stay Safe!

[@ayannandi1453]

I wish Adobe Cam Raw or Lightroom gave a skin tone indicator like Da Vinci Resolve does

[@f64Academy]

That would be awesome

[@ayannandi1453]

@@f64Academy Blake can you write to them from your end suggesting so?

[@f64Academy]

@@ayannandi1453 I don't think it would do any good. I'm just like everyone else to them. I don't have an 'in' at Adobe 😔

[@ayannandi1453]

@@f64Academy I just hope someone from Adobe reads these...😁

[@JMSteger]

Hi Blake, Thank you for another informative and practical video. I regularly use Calibration early in my raw processing before going into Photoshop. I really like your approach to using Calibration at the end of the workflow for color grading using Adobe Camera Raw as a filter and will start experimenting.

[@f64Academy]

It's pretty cool! I like the result, especially with blend modes, blend if, masks, etc

[@LaphroaigFan]

Is this calibration tool in Lightroom CC or just Lightroom classic?

[@f64Academy]

It's in all Lightroom versions.

[@naimkhanful]

How to download lightroom sir

[@f64Academy]

www.adobe.com

[@JackBellesPhotography]

That's a great tool!

[@f64Academy]

I dig it 😁

[@angiemartin7919]

Thank you. This is fascinating, but don't be hating on 'very little people."

[@veselinvasilev9362]

Thanks!

[@shengyuanhsuphotography7255]

like ur voice!!

[@f64Academy]

Thanks!

[@m0nztam0nk]

Am i the only one not realizing, why this is better then the standard tools?

[@f64Academy]

It's really about using what you already know plus this to get the most out of your color. It will make a difference when you experiment with it and use it with the standard tools.

[@aadi9292]

7.38 😂😂 next movie

[@moviesamazingfacts8955]

first like and comment

[@4091740]

I've only had one my whole life!

[@hendyiwan9998]

is this app free ?

[@f64Academy]

No it's Adobe camera raw or lightroom

[@22169959]

hey u look like paul rudd

[@f64Academy]

Haha! I'll take it! Another Kansas Citian 😁

[@williamthatcher9560]

:-) Is it only little people who use the calibration tool? LOL!!!

[@f64Academy]

Yep... You and the rest of the Internet got jokes...

[@williamthatcher9560]

@@f64Academy Yep

[@playoflightphotographicsllc]

Where's Uncle Grumpy? I see his pet eagle...

[@wudl83]

Carl Rudis 4ever

[@mrrcassidy]

Who even knew that camera calibration is popular with leprechauns?

[@f64Academy]

They steal your lucky charms too

[@konicekj1]

The described process has nothing to do with calibration. It's just playing with the sliders. Color calibration is a comparison of the selected color of the image and the color of the standard - e.g. X-rite colorchecker. The next step is adjustment, i.e. physical color correction to obtain the same color in the image compared to the reference color.

[@f64Academy]

You are correct. I'm not using these tools for calibration. I'm using a tool that people WOULD use for Calibration as a way of enhancing the artistic expression. Instead of it being a technical tool it can be used for expressive color and it works very well for that.

[@k_meowington]

Don't see any benefitions comparing to other methods of increasing saturation or changing the hue of colors - especially that we often want to change skin color, not all the pixels from the photo

[@f64Academy]

Experiment with it you'll see the difference over time. It's just a different approach. Why not use both and get the most out of your image?

[@WilliamBurdine]

Voted DOWN because there is VERY Little to do with LightRoom, so it should NOT be in the title... sorry bro, let's be focused and not clickbate. It should be "5 Practical uses for color calibration in adobe camera raw and photoshop"

[@f64Academy]

Lightroom and ACR are the same thing....

[@pixeldoc7119]

?? “Very little people??” Like in midgets? 😬

[@f64Academy]

You know what I mean! Lol

[@bobmack4524]

Too fast.

[@f64Academy]

Too slow. Sorry I thought we were playing a game 😂

[@dalesrapanosu3700]

o treaba n-ai, pr'etene

[@shadowspirit8974]

franchement pas terrible et pas créatif. la première photo est gâchée et les jaunes piquent les yeux. on apprend rien avec cette video