My Color Editing Went from Basic to PRO After I Learned This!

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

✅96% Off my New Course in the Photography Bundle from the 5DayDeal: cart.5daydeal.com/a/pb-xii-cde/mark-denney

[@pradippatel9345]

Learning how you process the scene in a live setting like we have had together this past week in Colorado has been priceless. Thanks Mark

[@kevinleblanc7965]

This is a game changer for me! Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information. I feel like this video is going to be somewhat of a turning point for me. I've already put it into practice and I'm amazed at how well this works and how your technique helped me to understand how better to work with colors. Truly amazing!

[@highbred]

This is a 15 minute masterclass, thank you !

[@TheH3lioz]

For making out individual colours - isnt it quicker to press ALT and see where the "reds" are or the "yellows" etc?

[@curiousabout1]

Great video. I especially appreciate the tip for white balance by maxing the saturation, that's a great idea.

[@garryw.9600]

Wow! Loved your lessons for a long time, and this is another banger. I just finished a small business shoot, and this process is helping me with the headshots to get skin tones looking better. Thank you!

[@DebiSenGupta]

There are a lot of good landscape photographers on KZbin with great photos and content . But I feel no one teaches as well as you do. I just came back from Ladakh and despite the fact I rarely do landscape photography, I spent a lot of time going through your videos in composition before the trip , and I got some great feedback from people. So thank you very much.

[@MarkDenneyPhoto]

Thanks so much - really appreciate it!

[@steviem8466]

Good, concise video Mark. I'll certainly be taking your recommendations into account, and hope to be purchasing some of your tutorials in the near future.

[@JoGi-z2q]

This is a great tutorial. Saved me time trying to figure out the issues with color I had on a couple of wildlife photos.

[@NORTRONGAMES]

you are amazing mark. thanks. looking forward to more videos on colors in editing process.

[@LenShigemoto]

Thanks!

[@AnthonyN71]

Thank you again for another very helpful video. I like the idea of working from the bottom up as a way to keep organized. Too many sliders and options tends to overwhelm me a bit. I tend to get overwhelmed on where to start, and by starting at the same level and adjusting each one individually is a more organized procedural approach. Thank you.

[@ww8wv1]

I will say that going into the RGB primary and then fine tuning in the color mixer is game changing.

[@blackislepeastoo]

Taking the sliders to ridiculous levels is great when demonstrating points and apart from the overall objective of the video, it makes it much easier to follow.

[@psrosemary]

Wow! This is an amazing tip. I love the way it's so open to deep personalization.

[@brightstarfilm5536]

Helpful and great video! Also, it's a good idea to make sure that your computer screen is not being hit with any direct light, especially colored or yellow light. I like to dim the overall ambience in my studio room.

[@jcollins9083]

40+ yrs college level art teacher. Too much UNITY = boredom. Too much VARIETY = chaos. Solid theory in your video.

[@vj6954]

Thank you very much. All your work is exceptional and special. I am grateful to you for the valuable information and effort to teach in this particular way.

[@alkram7]

Great to see these tips that you talked about in previous videos, come together harmonically, in this one, Mark👍 One thing I noticed in my editing, is that when adjusting colors of landscapes, it’s easy to chase away the natural appearance of the environment, when shifting hues and color calibrations. Most notable, for example, is setting a slightly warmer white balance for a summer or fall photo, and adjusting greens to a cool tone green. Ofc it’s subjective, however it generally appears very evident that “somethins off,” “not right” about the photo because of the clashing color temperatures. Intentionally or not, you’d missed the chance to mention (in this video) how there’s the dropper tool in each of the color settings which one could utilize to set a more balanced color adjustment. As the dropper affects the tone, and its undertone.. so, intern color adjustments can be a lot more uniform, cohesive. Thank you for your time to read

[@timrosenburgh8597]

Enjoyed the video as usual Mark. I certainly learned a lot from this. Look forward to the next one.

[@mtmccornack]

I always think of warm vs cool white balance kinda like "salt to taste" as far as your technique for going too far then bringing it back.... I do something very similar with vignette. under the effects tab, I slide up the "amount" and crank up the "feather" values till they are full on black circles, then shape the black oval till i like it, then I back the amount off, along with the feather tab till it looks right. Totally seems like its the same logic and I try to find other places in my edits to use this technique. thanks for adding one

[@redesign5096]

Thank you!!! You do the best at teaching this!! Really hope you’re being rewarded well!!!! Keep shining!! ❤

[@FloydVDocDeVore]

This is a really good approach to color grading. Although I don't use Lightroom, my editor does have the same tools, in the same order, so I plan to use this as I curate my collection. Always learn something from your videos. Many thanks!

[@vperalta]

This is great. I'm going to add this to my editing arsenal. BTW, I noticed the green shrubbery on camera right looks like it's growing out of a Sony Walkman tape player. 😁

[@robertgrenader858]

Mark, I wanted to reach out and ask if you and your family are Okay after Hurricane Helene struck?

[@williamli7906]

Hi Mark: I didn't see the link you mentioned the ealy video about Calibration tool. Can you post the link please? Thanks

[@lynnsphotographygreenart8098]

Great video and never thought about working from the bottom up on editing will have to give that a try.

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Interesting technique. I will have to try this.

[@michaelt7320]

Hi Mark. A great video once again. I just wondered whether you would ever need to reset the tint slider in the WB panel?

[@rolandvanalphen4355]

Hi Mark! Thank you for this weeks video, cool approach, enjoyed it! Isn't it a good idea to set the black and white levels while in the colourmixer all is set at -100?

[@JimGate-bn9ig]

I would like to see your previous video on the calibration tool. Got a link?

[@andreasklug3359]

Nice video, as always, thank you! One question: do you always buy a new T-shirt when you record a new video or do you record a video every time you buy a new T-shirt? :-)

[@kevinkimball715]

I would like to understand the relationship between white balance and the color calibration. I get that white balance establishes the tone (temp) of the overall photo. However, when the color calibration is adjusted, doesn't that affect the white balance, especially if one of the primary colors dominates over the others? I'll get the color course, as I am new to post processing and am excited to learn a new skill in retirement.

[@Chromatomic]

I've always used it for like color correction, or color matching, where as white balance is intended to match to the color temperature of the light whether it's the sun or tungsten lighting, florescent, etc. Calibration is adjusting the RGB channels directly. Unlike the color sliders it affects colors at the channel level so even where a direct color isn't visible it's affecting the amount of color in each combination of RGB. It can be used to create color shifts or fix them. When using different lenses, some of them will have a slight color variation and you can match it to another lens, cheaper filters, shooting through glass can all create color changes that you might want to negate or it can be part of intentional color changes to mimic film or to create a specific style.

[@kevinkimball715]

@@Chromatomic That is very helpful. I hadn’t thought of white balance in terms of the surrounding light, so the rest of your reply is very clear. Thank you for educating this novice.

[@Mr.G.Williams]

What type of file were you editing? Just the WB wasn't in kelvins...a tif or jpeg?

[@jrfsailing07]

Great video!!

[@paulg9042]

Best description of this method is "Color Titration"

[@emanuelbief7088]

Something I don't understand is the numbering of the colors in the ranges and that, for example, shouldn't blue be 160 or something like that?

[@mkonvo]

Your clock on the wall behind you needs a new battery. Thanks for the videos, I always learn something.

[@christopherscragg7956]

Mark, if you dont mind me asking where did you buy your t-shirt from please thank you.

[@marshall-_-007-_-]

Great video as always!

[@sylvestersim423]

Very detailed information.. Thanks

[@scarcesense6449]

Cranking up the colour is the inverse of the old TV trick. Back in analogue days when TVs had knobs on them, you used to turn the colour off to adjust the brightness and contrast, then reintroduce the colour after you got the basics right.

[@keiththompson2289]

Learned something here. Thanks

[@Daniel-qg4mf]

Thank you for the video !

[@echoauxgen]

Why do you not first select the camera profiles 4 little squares where it will show the camera profiles and you can rollover each to get a good starting point that you would of gotten if you did a jpeg and selected that profile. Example I do a lot of Astro Milky Ways from a beach area for the dark sky over the ocean. The milky way area over the galactic center you find Pegasus that always has the Yin and Yang colors of magenta to the left where the wings and a area lower another part and a blue color unlike the night sky to the right where the horse body is, I use Sony A7SM1,2,3 and sometimes A7RM5. From the beginning with the A7SM1 using AWB and selecting portrait to start first the beach sand color was tan and the Pegasus Yin and Yang colors were perfect and just the right brightness but perfect and the added bonus was the colors of air glow where atoms in the high altitudes hitting each other of oxygen, carbon dioxide being red and green others being blue. The point is all you have to do at the start for a colorful night sky vs grey or black that many think is real due the human eye can not see colors at night but a camera can with a long exposure of just 1 sec. is just slide the Vibrance and Saturation just a little and those colors come out. The A7RM5 is a little harder to select a profile due to naming of each but portrait is named . I always roll over camera profiles even always set camera to standard when capturing and always doing RAW Lrc and other programs do a best guess on camera profiles that work. You would have to capture an image in all profiles in jpeg mode to pick or adjust the raw to one that works for you. May I add that color of trees with leaves of green due to spring time are also rather bright and colorful. All with little effort.

[@Chromatomic]

Is that a walkman on the table?

[@Chromatomic]

Just realizing it was swapped with a gameboy and a Rubik's cube in some of the previous videos.

[@AndyHayter]

Also look at the left side magazine rack. A printed copy of Shutterbug magazine that disappeard awhile ago.

[@trixsterdo]

Great video 👍👍

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

1:00 Peter Lik - "oh I don't know… looks good to me"!

[@artefia-photo-video]

Thanks a lot Mark...very inspiring!

[@jmg5878]

Holy crap I was the 1000th like 🤘📸

[@c.y.7934]

would be nice to add sections to your videos which makes it easier to switch between interested topics.

[@robertvanderwal4419]

Neat!

[@carson2991]

the link doesn’t work

[@olfrimeur]

That iPod is a beast ! 🤩

[@adventure_photo]

I always start with camera profile, then white balance, then local masking. This doesn’t seem like a good way of going about it, far too complicated and too many global adjustments.

[@TheSnugsterr]

Seems like a long process with some extra steps. End results looks good tho

[@MRQirex]

First step should be switch to standard profile.

[@Tom-o3f]

❤

[@tompatton2086]

This could all be so much simpler by using an rgb parade.

[@tommillington8704]

This seems like a very long process to me.

[@williammcdonnell3539]

Why not just do an original in camera, on scene white balance before shooting?

[@steveeb9567]

Way too complicated and time consuming imu.

[@Xo1ot1]

I have to say that I don't agree with this approach. The outcome looks unnatural to me, which can happen really fast with the Calibration tool.

[@chuckgmanleyphotos7197]

Over saturated in Green it is.

[@moenielsen3218]

Or you press auto and done XD

[@JohnDoranski]

Thanks for the intro to color adjustments. Since I use the Desk LR, and the LRC menu is WAY different, it is at times hard to follow. Like the Y shortcut - that is not on the Desk Top LR. I would enjoy buying your class, but with the differences noted in this video and prior videos, the expense exceeds the benefits- sorry.

[@rolandvanalphen4355]

Just use LrC!!!

[@Swaggerlot]

I would have much more faith in your content if you focused on the general use of photo editing software, not just on Lightroom. Freedom of choice should be the rule!

[@carson2991]

you have the choice to use whatever you want, but lightroom is the industry standard whether you like it or not

[@d3xmeister]

Lightroom is really, really bad when it comes to landscapes that have many shades of green and /or red/yellow foliage. You have to work the color corrections seriously to get them looking correct. In other software like DxO or C1, you open the raw and they are there, you tweak just a bit or not ar all and that’s it

[@philadler9171]

he's a Lightroom expert. if you content for other software do your homework and find other creators. there are plenty

[@davidwalker2402]

Would you recommend DXO for landscape , haven’t used it but hear some very good things about it .?

[@d3xmeister]

@@philadler9171 Why does it matter ? I don't care who he is, this video appear in my feed. Do you think he is that delicate that any criticism of Lightroom is forbidden here ?

[@d3xmeister]

@@davidwalker2402 I love DxO, the raw conversions are the best in my opinion, and also the noise reduction. But honestly each software does some things better than the other. Lr is very powerful, unmatched even at some tasks, DxO at others, C1 at others.

[@d3xmeister]

@@davidwalker2402 I would, to me it is definitely leads to better results, but you have to get to know it to extract the goods from it (the fine details, the shadows/highlights etc), Lightroom is more friendly at this

[@tombishop7545]

Thanks!