Photoshop's Color Balance is a SCAM!

[@PiXimperfect]

► IMPORTANT: Hey guys! I hope you are doing amazing :) I have a small request; please watch the video till the end so that you don't miss out on the incredible simplicity and benefits of Color Balance. I understand that some of us like to watch the video halfway and jump to a conclusion, which might not be ideal. I'd be grateful if you could please allow me to make an unbiased demonstration simply by watching the entire video. Lots of love! Thank you.

[@ankushjoy4322]

You are awesome ❤❤

[@zeebalochgraphy1754]

sir we need premenent face edit using mixer brush

[@helmort]

Honestly I think colour balance is very used because more intuitive than curves so adobe let it in their softwares

[@magdouly]

keep it up bro

[@kashifqaiser]

The thing which we can do with color balance in a second, you want us to do with the curves in half an hour?

[@PrakyathHegdeK]

He has mastered the PS so well that he knows the tools beyond its actual usage.

[@Sr_Hirwani]

Yes bro

[@krishnachaitanya9024]

Bro he literally knows way more than Photoshop developers.

[@devilichus]

He acknowledged so much that now he is speaking directly with the souls of the tools. lol.

[@md.ahasunhabibmojumder9074]

I think, if Unmesh is given enough time, he will solve the pandemic with CURVES. 😁

[@bikashmagar2360]

😂😂

[@MiSaLiAnW]

this would be a very calming scenario

[@VanfireOfficial]

You are definitely right. And he might replace face mask with layer mask.

[@CLOSERBDZ]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@philipculbertson55]

Ha! so funny.

[@jospherkanna]

every single time unmesh says "it's gonna blow your mind." i get up and set my popcorn for the show.

[@agnihotri9116]

@@colinsouthern good, remain tame and dispassionate.

[@parmeshwardeepnarayansingh6381]

I am hungry

[@ultranova3315]

Photoshop: Unmesh make a video on colour balance Unmesh: *proceeds to prove colour balance is a scam*

[@mynamemysurname7806]

Curves is a more verstile and powerful tool of course but in this case you have to spent a lot of time to reach the same result using Color Balance, and if u make a complex variation of tones, Color Balance is the best choice (if you don't have time to spent)

[@michaelbiwenka2572]

PiXimperfect in 2077: Everything that can be done with any tool can be done with curves.

[@abhijeetpatel6539]

Girl: How do i get more dates? Unmesh: It's pretty simple, just use your curves!

[@whothewho82]

This is pure gold

[@story6420]

🤣😂 master of curve

[@1-minutesanimation853]

Back in the magical world of piximperfect

[@lowrivera]

The World of Curves!

[@AliDicaprio]

Now every tool in the photoshop they got scared from Unmesh 😂

[@Ben-pl8ci]

Except curves 😂😂

[@AliDicaprio]

@@Ben-pl8ci exactly 😂

[@rylvestersolon4854]

The next upload would be like: every adjustments and sliders in photoshop is just a lie for all of it can be done by curves

[@ErickMark]

Now teach us how to use curves to declare our taxes!

[@yuctseng]

Every adjustments are Kind of of presets that made by curve!

[@afnanid45]

Unmesh: I think color balance is a scam, I want you guys to disagree with me me: I don't have enough knowledge, I can only agree with you, that's it.

[@andremanoel8366]

The same way you can peel a potato with a knife but we choose to use peelers haha The good thing about photoshop is that you can achieve the same results with different tools.

[@LasiruMaheerathna]

This guy literally deserves every subscriber.

[@olvrodri]

Every video a masterclass.

[@mrmeowpuss]

I've always used Color Balance and probably still will for its simplicity

[@rafiulislam31]

At 1st he has shown that curves can do everything levels adjustment does. Now color balance. Unmesh has finally decided to show the alternative solution of each adjustment with curves. In future there won't be any other adjustments except curves.

[@veevee23]

Hi Unmesh, I could watch your videos all day. Thank you for sharing all those knowledges

[@hieronymousse]

Thank you for (yet another) very insightful tutorial video. As a PS user of twenty-eight years, I agree that Levels and Color Balance (and Brightness/Contrast) are handy tools when starting out in Photoshop, but Curves are the one-stop-shop which allows you to tweak Color Cast/ Grading, Exposure and Contrast all at the same time.

[@waynelytton7517]

When I was teaching Photoshop I always told my students that doing things in Photoshop was like taking a trip from New York to Miami. There's many ways to go ,one can fly, go by train, drive, take a horse or walk. One just had to choose the one that was the best and most efficient for them.The same with Photoshop. My personal opinion is Photoshop offers too many options some of which are absolutely awful, and others nowhere as efficient. Since I was a conventional Photographic Lab Technician LONG before Photoshop was even conceived in the mind of it's inventors, I understood curves because of quality control; therefore Curves was an easy option for me, who knew that, in my opinion it's also the best and most efficient.

[@Lez325]

I fail to see why so many viewers gave a Thumbs down to this Video - Keep up the great work Unmesh, you are a star :)

[@numbersix9468]

probably shills for Big Color Balance

[@sankalpajoshi007]

To preserve luminosity instead of compensating with taking down the RGB channel curve, I think we can change blend mode to color 😁

[@ViewOf]

*colors

[@sankalpajoshi007]

@@ViewOf yup right! My bad 😛😂

[@user-xc7jm2xd9d]

It's different - test it. Color Balance's Preserve Luminosity is shifting the RGB by some calculation. It is a confusing label for sure.

[@TimurKaramov]

I noticed that Photoshop on IPAD has significantly less features that a normal Photoshop. But something tells me that effects of the some missing tools can be achieved in the Mobile Version as well. I would appreciate if you could make this video as well. As Ipad version is very convenient to use especially if you do not want to turn the big PC on.

[@southpaww]

I think it's also important to note you only achieved the same look by reverse engineering the color balance layer. Without the CB adjustment, you'd have to have a masterful understanding of tones on the histogram to get the same color adjustment via curves. You can't use points on the curve from one image on another as a template because lights and darks will be distributed differently image to image. imo. That said, I still bow to your wisdom - I'm a self-proclaimed PS jedi, but you're Yoda w/ 900 year's experience under your belt.

[@fantasmica]

Oh Unmesh, I so much love watching your videos. Doesn't matter how well I know photoshop! Your style of talking to us is so cool and kind I find myself watching everything you post even if I already knew it all. Keep up the wonderful work you're doing, keep being a wonderful person you are and stay great! Much love from Poland!! PS. Curves are the best!

[@corporatecrew7127]

Can't tell about others but your all videos blows my mind sky high. Not only this one.

[@sayorchatterjee]

But Unmesh photographers like us who has a very hectic schedule and need faster way to edit, setting up curve points to match the colour balance effect is pretty darn hectic you need to show us some faster methods

[@satyabratalalla]

This called True Love. Your love for Curves makes this happen

[@chlls]

i tried something like this comparing Lr HSL panel and Ps Selective Color adjustment layer, with lots of surprise. I created a scale of the base 3 primary colors, and also the 8 main colors of Lightroom HSL panel (red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink) with solid color HSB values hue-shifted from 0 to 360 degrees equally (+45 degrees increment, got different colors than Lr HSL), also not equally just like a color wheel, also variations with not 100% saturation and 100% brightness. Then I applied Selective Color adjustment layer on top of this color spectrum - turned out it has very surprising inconsistencies. Also, Hue/Saturation adjustment layer is not consistent: saturation and luminosity will alter different color ranges differently, not the same extent you would expect. Unmesh, I would love to see a video on this too!

[@bellatrixguerra]

Unmesh is so smart. Clickbait title but quality content. Thank you for always demystifying Photoshop tools for us.

[@ikaabuladze6510]

Basically Color balance adjustment layer is simpler version of curves like levels

[@AzogDefilerFromMordor]

Hi Unmesh, I have a question. My photos from camera show in properties 96 dpi. Once I open them in Photoshop and do nothing to them only save them right away as either jpeg ot TIFF they will have only 72 dpi shown in properties. Looked in right click on image - properties - detail. I did not really find and answer on internet. Why would Photoshop decrease the quality of an image?

[@Magamonair]

It might be redundant with your conclusion but here's my take on this subject: The easy manipulation that uses curves needs the color balance to have been applied before hand to be "easy" (or you have to make presets). Otherwise the manipulation requires you moving around several points of the curve to obtain the color balance that you need. So overall, still useful in my opinion as it saves quite the time. If you then want to make sure you're targetting certain areas you can always use "blend if" or a luminosity masking tool.

[@ighypno]

Hello. Your brush cursor has two circles. but I can't find the option for it. how can I make my brush cursor also have two circles?

[@s.vancourt9541]

I learned to use color balance decades ago in a darkroom, printing color portraits from film. It's much more intuitive to me because of my background.

[@stillremain.artwork]

Just leaving a comment to support Unmesh, thanks for teaching so much to everyone

[@beautifullydifferen1]

Unmesh, Can you do a video on how to use Photoshop on the Ipad?

[@floridehounkpatin2110]

Hi please can you make a video on how to edit dark skin colour? And remove all acne and dark dot. I love your videos I am learning so much.

[@ezergallery5643]

Check out prince meyson

[@aabirchakravorty]

They are already there. You should watch all the skin retouch videos by Unmesh you'll get the idea on where to apply which technique.

[@RaymondReise]

he has videos on that topic as well, it`s called skin retouch by frecuency separation

[@floridehounkpatin2110]

@@aabirchakravorty ok thanks I will check it

[@floridehounkpatin2110]

@@RaymondReise thank you so much

[@wilismatrix9847]

I never used this filter and don't see any usability for it, and now you prove it !

[@syydibadd]

The point that you can fit any music in PiXimperfect's intro

[@FredsChannelOne]

Dear PiXimperfect I Have a start Error problem with Photoshop 2021 (version ) the apllication is unable to start and produces a message to start. PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ..

[@fil1802]

Unmesh...I have a question please. Has the "scaling" tool for images & text changed recently? I thought you could now simply go to the corner of the "CTRL/T box and drag to keep the scale the same? I have to press the SHIFT key to keep images & text scaled up or down...(have I changed a setting without knowing it?) Please advise...thank you. Phil

[@ramyahmed787]

Thanks Unmesh You are 🌟 I learned a lot of things from you Thanks again

[@bapure123]

He uses Photoshop on a different level. Thanks man !!

[@gauravgholap6838]

Hey Unmesh, it is not about two features with same function.....it is about user experience...curves needs more clicks and drags compare to color balance ❤️

[@kendrickcontent]

Did photoshop get rid of the extensions tab? I was using beautify panel but when I updated to the lastest photoshop it went away.. and I cant add it back because I dont see the extensions under windows dropdown menu.

[@balloonyvideos]

Thanks for that clarification that it's the relationship between color balance and curves you wanted us to see, not that Adobe was ripping us off and taking our money 😆. Fewer clicks means a faster, easier workflow, and that, as you know, was their intention with color balance 😉.

[@HaroldChristner]

This video is excellent! It's also old, as are the other vids you've made about useless Adobe tools in Photoshop. I'm wondering if you've since made a video that just shows the essential tools so people won't waste their time with the useless ones?

[@nahsnter2867]

The curves adjustment layer could also be set to the blending mode luminosity to preserve its luminosity, right?

[@nicholastimblin347]

Definitely appreciate this video. The results differ if you check the Preserve Luminosity button, but I'm sure you've already noticed that.

[@eartho]

"i don't know what Adobe is thinking." Well, they're not really thinking is the problem. I can show you many examples of innovative color adjustment tools that have been created over the past 20 years, but none of them are in Photoshop. We could be doing so much more just with Curves if Adobe wasn't so afraid of them.

[@primebeymaster]

I thinks Unmesh should make Photoshop Software.

[@devilichus]

Great video man. By the way people who are enthusiastic about in sound production loves to tweek with Parametric EQ's (they are the Curvy and more detailed ones) by that, Why photographers or painters doesn't prefer curves I couldn't understand. It is the Equalizer for nearly all the parameters.

[@dgr.visuals]

Hi Unmesh, I truly hope you'll read this because I fell like you can help with a problem many people have. When I do an edit with photoshop, I export it, put it on my phone and surprise, everything has changed. How can I make sure that when I export an edit, it will look the same on my computer and on my smartphone? Thanks a lot!

[@dgr.visuals]

@Digga Diggson Hey, thanks for your answer! I will look into that!

[@AmrMohsen-gx4js]

in color balance in reds against cyan it doesn't tell you we boosting the reds but we balancing colors between something and something else in the mid tones range for example. i guess its a tool with a good recipe that work for some people easier and faster than curves and to be honest it was easier to reach certain looks with it that with curves or levels etc

[@dollareurostar7049]

I have an older version of photoshop and I don't have this "camera raw filter". However I belive that ALL adjustments may be adjsted just by using the "CURVES" adjustment. Using the curves you can adjust: brightness, darkness, make monochrome image, and also make it negative. LIKE YOU SAID- CURVES ARE COMPLETE EQUALIZER. But how do you adjust the temperature, shadows, whites, blacks, dehaze and many other adjustments at the "camera raw filter" ? Also can you make a video where all adjustments could be adjusted with the cuves adjustment if you don't have such a video yet?

[@aravindraju9333]

Such a hard worker and composed like BUDHA💯💫

[@DarthVikta]

How do you adjust cyan / magenta / yellow via curves if "anything, that can be done with colour balance, can be done with curves"?

[@gyldean]

Just like you do with color balance: to increase cyan = decrease red; to increase magenta = decrease green; to increase yellow = decrease blue.

[@DarthVikta]

@@gyldean Thank you :)

[@ba_vinci9220]

"(…)shadows and midtones same thing, it's just that the shadows is of lesser intesity(Ed. in terms of value/brightness/light) than the midtone…" - that's a 100% correct statement, because it's exactly how visible light works and affects that what and how we see(I know in real life it works in a much more elaborate and intricate way(photons, light rays and their bounces etc.), but it's just a simplifiaction of this theory and phenomenon only for clarification purposes). So yeah, it works quite like how it should to. ;)

[@ROQ_75]

@PiXimperfect what digital tablet do you recommend? pls

[@gusmanfreeman]

So is there an adjustment level or a maybe a tool in camera raw that can target separately highlights, midtones and shadows for color adjustment?

[@aleksandarratkovic3602]

Now, here's good ol' Piximperfect, in all its glory! Thank you, man!

[@madlove2339]

One of the top-notch instructors.

[@ziroziid]

Help! I'm color blind. I would love a feature/plugin like vectorscope in Photoshop/Lightroom. I use it all the time on premiere and After Effects. A completely colorblind person could set off a very good starting point for skin tones and white balance by just looking at the graphs. regular histogram isn't accurate enough for me 😣

[@aquilinorodrigo]

I think you can change it in your laptop/pc settings. So not only for PS, bus for your whole pc!

[@experimento6262]

Feature*

[@ziroziid]

I couldn't trust my eyes, i need an indicator or something like that.

[@ziroziid]

One really useful feature of the vectorscope is the often used ‘Skin Tone Line’. This is the line on the scope between the Red and the Yellow sections... see more details about the vectorscope on the internet please.

[@lauraridolfo35]

Can you please tell me what mic phone you use

[@ammaralammouri1270]

So this how PhD in Photoshop feels like 😘😘

[@juanjosealpanes5116]

hi, why did you stop using mac os?

[@truefilm6991]

Awesome video! You confirmed what I suspected long ago. Color balance is not calibrated how it should be, to put it mildly. So I'll use curves instead. Thanks, as always, for sharing your skills and knowledge.

[@wassupdoc7742]

I've never missed a video from 2018 !

[@yingziaishangguang]

The color balance and gradation set by Adobe, as well as the gradient printing and other tools are all for the use of novice users, the curve is more suitable for high-end users, because the curve is more difficult to use, other tools are relatively easy, but the curve The ability to deal with problems is the strongest. Familiar with the curve can greatly improve our work efficiency. The curve is known as the "King of Toning". Everything behind it is mathematics and it is also a curve.

[@65rider]

Absolutely Great ! The way you deconstruct the science and logic of the tools, and share with simplicity and objectivity, is a must ! Congrats, thank you and keep your astonishing work !

[@LucasPitcher13]

So, just like Levels, the use of colour balance is mainly a choice about which tool is easiest for you to use for any given job. How much of the difference when you were looking at highlights was just down to clipping? Would preserve luminosity have given different results at that point? ...off to check for myself!

[@LucasPitcher13]

A quick test showed that adding 'preserve luminosity' with the highlights adjusted with colour balance did indeed reduce the clipping effect, making the curves layer better approximate teh clolour balance layer without needing adjust the opacity. Tested - For Science!

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

This was great Immediately. I had always defaulted to using color balance. Great Tutorial!

[@amgpoint1291]

Nice... I also like doing creative thing with photos...

[@eronrichez7881]

Unmesh never misses 'arms day' at the gym.

[@NathalieAnnoye]

Thank you so much Unmesh, you have demonstrated what I understood, different tools to achieve the same result. But I thought there was a reason for that, like more finesse or precision depending on the tool used. And that suits me fine because I don't like using colour curves, I prefer the colour balance method, which are simpler for me. I just use curves for adjusting brightness, shadows or to make a matte effect

[@IsraelLuriFormacion]

Everything explained is only valid if you change only one value of the color balance, because if you change for example red and magenta with two different values, how do you match it with the opacity of the curve? It would be two different opacity values and you can't match it with two curves either because the upper one would affect the lower one.

[@rathsaramadhu6006]

How about a sari details of a bride's photo, lots of colors Colors are made from camera row filters without changing.(Is it possible to make the colors of the raw photo separately as parts. Sometimes a white sari changes a lot of sari colors.)

[@nobledesigner]

version 1.3 of Imagemotion plugin for animation in Photoshop i want thid ??

[@subhadip.flixcanvas]

Amazing video as always. I wonder, instead of messing with the RGB Curves, if changing the Blend Mode of the Curves Layer to Color will have a similar effect like Preserve Luminosity?

[@virtualimageproductions4583]

You are a genius Unmesh

[@RichardToonkel]

Nice. I use that curve trick alot. I also stopped using Levels. Curves rules. Thanks

[@iSTOR]

Right, but for some absurd motive curves are not available for 32 bits per channel images... color balance is not available as well, but other adjustment layers like levels they are. Edit: maybe is related to 32 bits is a linear mode and 16 and 8 bits are more "natural" logaritmic modes (linear to the eye, but the eye as the ear is logaritmic).

[@MaiaShorts]

Your sound quality is awesome 🤩

[@LetsPracticeTogetherLPT]

Sir I have a request that can you please share the intro music.. I shall be very grateful to you. Thanks

[@dylanmolinasolis9006]

Your videos always are amazing!

[@MomiAubrey]

As I read the title, Oh! No! I'm a fan of color balance! So I took time to watch. I might totally fall in love with curves.

[@sarawarhusen5545]

How you edit your audio

[@jamescombridgeart]

I knew I wasn't using colour balance and 'blend if' for nothing!! Validated

[@Nija122]

Which pc u use

[@bibashgrg178]

what if just as midtones and shadows, midtone is also a 50% opacity of highlights??

[@Testudio]

12:21 whatever that gets your job done I agree

[@mdirshad3781]

Omg it's absolutely blow my mind to understand it! Please sir make adobe illustrator tutorials please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jpmissdeNice]

Great video as usual. What if if you turn the curve layer's blending mode to Colors to match the Preserve Luminosity fonction instead of decreasing the RGB curve? Does it work?

[@the_slidemaster]

You are very in detail.. 👏 Awesome..

[@wolfsworld4767]

Sir's been working out in gym too along with Photoshop 😏

[@creativemuhammad3782]

The love Unmesh has for CURVES ADJ LAYER 😅🥰🥰

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

We could use a plugin for Photoshop that reminds us what adjustments should or might as well be done in curves instead of what we instinctively grab for. 🙂