The Ultimate Guide to Color Theory for Photographers.

[@seandalt]

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[@alrozanski8352]

@@seandalt Hey Sean how are you? Picked up your Travel And Classic Presets, excellent job my friend they are great.

[@Kevnslife]

Algorithm on my side today, just what I needed! Beautifully explained G!

[@seandalt]

You’re a legend Kev, thanks for watching and taking the time to drop a comment brother!

[@JoshuaMcMullen.Official]

Wow! This was one of the most amazingly effective and concise videos on color theory I've ever seen on KZbin! Well done, my man - that earned a subscribe from me for sure!

[@regrr1774]

Thank you so much! It's been almost 5 years since I last really edited a photo and it's something I want to relearn. I went through my old photos and those that I really took time to properly edit are my favorites. I'm looking forward to watching more of your editing tips and guides. Very helpful.

[@seandalt]

Absolutely, I’m glad you found it useful and I appreciate the comment! Just dive in and start playing around, that’s the best way to relearn.

[@AnnkurKumar]

0:12, which monitor / tv is best for color correction and color grading.

[@debayangoswami2083]

Anything above sRGB 99% rated display should be fine

[@seandalt]

Exactly what he said 👆🏼 The Apple Monitor is pretty epic but you don’t need to spend that much. I have a Dell Ultrasharp and it’s great!

[@The_PlagueDoctor]

Looking forward to seeing more!

[@hazzhall88]

Honestly the best colour theory video I've watched! Super helpful and clear, thank you

[@seandalt]

You’re a legend Hazz, thank you brother 🤙🏼

[@juanplus3324]

Thank you. I've always dreaded editing until now. I was "analysis paralysis" with color!

[@kevindonnelly8862]

From my editing experience I feel like analogus or complementary works best with people and dealing with skin tones and wanting to separate your subject from the background . For more abstract work like nature or street photography monochromatic is amazing

[@seandalt]

Definitely agree with that, monochromatic gives us a bit more flexibility as we don’t have to account for skin tones

[@niklasrognaldsen8396]

Thank you🎉 Amazing to learn colors from a master off color grading👍🏼 going to test out tips now:)

[@seandalt]

Such kind words, appreciate it brother! Thanks for watching and dropping and comment 🤙🏼

[@shessudar]

You explain it very well. What a useful video 🔥👍🏼❤️

[@seandalt]

Thank you love ❤️❤️

[@lauraxgracex]

Thank you so much for this video it's exactly what I needed :)

[@seandalt]

Absolutely! I’m glad you found it useful and I appreciate the comment! 🤙🏼

[@tarangrp]

This was genuinely so helpful!

[@charley7085]

Thanks for this Masterclass. Subscribed. Keep these types of videos coming. Its a blessing for all noobs like me out there.

[@seandalt]

Thank you Charly, appreciate the comment and the sub! More to come for sure

[@Clorayne]

Sean the stache is 🔥 Ok now on to the rest of the video .

[@seandalt]

You have no idea how much this means to me lol. I’m loving the stache

[@tatsyyyy]

Thank you for sharing! That was a very insightful talk about color theory. You made it easy to understand for us noobs.

[@seandalt]

Glad you found it useful man, appreciate you taking the time to comment!

[@lsagidullin]

That's a massive work! Thanks a lot! Even after 10+ years of photography and editing I found it very useful. Your pics are stunning! You also make me missing my Sigma 35 1.4 from the times I had Sony A7-3 :'( wish it come to Canon RF soon (or I will switch to Sony a7-4 lol). And yes, we want more editing videos!

[@seandalt]

What a lovely comment, thank you so much Isa this made my day :) doesn’t Sigma make a 35 art for Canon as well?

[@brendanbouffler7777]

Love this advice. Keen to hear about your color class.

[@seandalt]

Thanks Brendan, still putting the finishing touches on it but will be released very soon :)

[@alrozanski8352]

Great video Sean , learned quite a few things

[@seandalt]

Absolutely Al, thanks for the comment!

[@samchu5335]

thanks sean. i just downloaded Lr. Editing to me is daunting. At times I don't know where to start. I'm used to using preset jpegs 😁 But I guess it'll take time & patientce. Great video Sean. Very insightful and concise.

[@seandalt]

That’s how we all feel at first! Just dive in, be creative, and have fun. Don’t worry about making it look “correct”. Just follow your intuition

[@samchu5335]

@ appreciate your reply sean ☺️🙏🏻

[@Manosgarf]

Awesome sharing this knowledge! Thank you!

[@seandalt]

Absolutely my man, thank you for the love and the comment!

[@Brunlees]

Amazing tips !

[@mrdmahesh]

Really helpful video!! Thanks!!

[@seandalt]

Absolutely! Thank you for the love 🙏🏼

[@mihailmihov1882]

Excellent video! Thanks!

[@seandalt]

Appreciate the comment my man!

[@katfoster7732]

Great video, very well explained!

[@seandalt]

Thank you Kat!

[@DavidFackrell1]

Love the vid thanks!

[@seandalt]

Thanks for the love David!

Great video! It will be nice to get a deeper one with a couple of step by step samples! Thanks!

[@seandalt]

Will definitely dream up some more editing vids :) appreciate the comment!

[@midlifecrisis920]

This is a masterclass!

[@seandalt]

Appreciate the love! Definitely put a lot of hours into this one haha, I’m glad you found it useful 🙏🏼

[@ramujayakumarsreekala]

I have never seen a better video that explains colour as good as you. Really inspired. +1 subscriber

[@seandalt]

You’re a legend man, thank you!

[@dylancurcio5388]

Thank you!

[@seandalt]

Absolutely my man!

[@ivlog3663]

Great introduction to „the break“ !

[@seandalt]

Haha gotta keep it interesting!

[@wojt4spes]

Wonder what monitor you are using

[@vekofoto]

Thank for the video and all the information! That stache stole the show, though! 😁

[@seandalt]

Haha much love, thank you. I’m absolutely loving the stache, here to stay

[@MartinV.]

Great Video

[@seandalt]

Thank you my man!

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

Great advice 👍🙂

[@seandalt]

Thanks for the love brother 🤙🏼

[@halimothman7324]

how to apply colour harmony into our photo editing? do we need to adjust manually?

[@seandalt]

Usually it’s in the form of slightly shifting the hues in the image to be more complimentary. For example, if you have a lot of blues and greens in your image, slightly shifting the green hues towards yellow could create a better complimentary relationship. We can also get better color harmony by adding color into the highlights/shadows using the color grading panel, like I show in this video. Many different ways to do it, but I think it’s important to know which colors look good together to begin with, hence the color wheel!

[@yashomb]

interesting video... subscribed

[@AleksandrDederer]

... spend 4-6 hours per day to correct color... That's a reason why I shifted from Nikon to Fuji! :)

[@seandalt]

There’s a difference between color correction and color grading. All that time I spend working in colors is to achieve a more stylized look. Your camera brand really doesn’t matter when it comes to this. But I agree Fuji does have great colors 😍

[@clashwithrow1344]

Ty

[@seandalt]

Gotchu! 😉

[@vivienandre2875]

Very instructive! Here my follow :)

[@seandalt]

Welcome to the channel Vivien!

[@SinCinem4]

how do i get lightroom classic?

[@seandalt]

Adobe offers a license for about $10 a month I think. Totally worth it!

[@BobN54]

Thanks for a thorough and useful video. I'd just make one point, small but important. The 'L' in HSL is properly 'lightness', not 'luminance'. Why is this important? Because colour is about perception, not light. 'Luminance' is a measure of light (unit, the lux). 'Lightness' is about how light or dark something looks. Luminance, is an open-ended phenomenon. Keep pumping energy into your light source and you keep adding luminance. On the other hand, lightness can never go lighter than white - which is why adjusting 'L' doesn't work the way you'd think if it was luminance, at some stage you can't add anymore, and also as you approach white you lose saturation. The luminance of white (100% lightness) depends on viewing, how much light is illuminating the print, or how far up the brightness of a monitor is turned up. Whatever the actual luminance the eye interprets it as white (within limits). For the same reason when you add white to a colour you make it 'lighter', not 'brighter'. I think it's important to use different words to denote different concepts, otherwise it tends to result in confusion. Understanding that colour is perceptual and not about physical amounts of light is important to both colour theory and photography as a whole. Many otherwise knowledgeable people get it wrong, including the software designers at Adobe, who also got 'exposure' wrong. To be fair to them, they were producing a metaphor based UI, and tried to use metaphors that they thought would work for photographers.

[@seandalt]

This is very interesting, and tbh I had no idea. Thank you for explaining this and making the distinction clear. Makes sense why the adobe designers would use the words they did though

[@BobN54]

@@seandalt Thanks for your positive response. Not every You Tuber does that! I found, when I finally worked this out, that a lot of pennies dropped.

[@seandalt]

Try my best to reply to every comment :)

[@sixsixvisuals]

Man I’d love to have you look through my stuff and critique my use of colors

[@seandalt]

Might need to look into setting something like this up!

[@sixsixvisuals]

@ I volunteer as first tribute!

[@kyleshootsthingsphotograph2226]

Take a shot every time he says "Lean(ing) into".

[@seandalt]

😂😂

[@KlausSN]

Color profiles only affects jpgs

[@seandalt]

Correct, forgot to mention that!

[@badgerfoot]

Dad stache dalton

[@seandalt]

Comment of the day. I’m totally on board with this title

[@Silleman203]

dude you could be gordan ryans brother

[@seandalt]

😂😂 I’ll take that as a compliment, dude is an absolute unit

[@Silleman203]

@@seandalt for sure its a compliment! Hes the 1 on the mats and you are on the streets ;)

[@juniornxumalo3225]

camera tried to seduce me fr

[@seandalt]

She sounds pretty hot ngl

[@juniornxumalo3225]

@ smart move tapping into the oogabooga part of our brains .

[@Ezrabastian]

Just get a Nikon. And stop worrying about colors for good.

[@seandalt]

Love a good baked potato

[@ivlog3663]

Im about to switch to Nikon because of colors, are they really that good??? ( using Sony RN)

[@bharatadhikari4136]

⁠switched to Sony from nikon.

[@jesseoverstreet1706]

I love my z9. I shoot exclusively on it.

[@sgpork]

What a fanboy comment…. Color are subjective and you can adjust them. Any brand is ok.

[@Janihonkalaxx]

If you need use 6-7hour thinking colours, there is BIG problem in your picture or your head🤦‍♂️👎

[@seandalt]

It’s not 6-7 hours just thinking about colors. It’s 6-7 hours playing around with an edit to look the way I want. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, and your comment adds zero value to this discussion

[@tiitulitii]

Editing is cheating as soon as it is noticeable in comparison to the reality.

[@seandalt]

I disagree. Photography is a subjective art form like any other. It doesn’t have to look like reality to be meaningful or interesting. But like everything, my opinion is subjective as well.

[@edwardgilbert4786]

​@@seandaltagreed. Art is subjective to the viewer. So long as it's not AI, or submitted to a contest under false pretenses, I'm cool!

[@YB12388]

Perfect advice -- take break 👌 thanks and regards

[@seandalt]

So so important. Thanks for the comment!