What is Color Lookup? PS Tools Explained

[@PhotoManipulation]

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[@barbaragroves]

Color Lookup is my go-to for color grading.

[@PhotoManipulation]

It's so so good! Thanks for watching!

[@jessicas4295]

Your one of my favorites on here. Thanks. Love your talk-through info videos. Hope so see more :)

[@TheSecondOne123]

Aw, thank you! Bigger and better tutorials coming very soon!

[@PhotoManipulation]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@fayyazb]

Very Insightful and needed someone showing the fun aspect of it. Thanks Abbey.

[@PhotoManipulation]

Thanks for the feedback!!!!!

[@rgarlinyc]

These were particularly beautiful LUT combinations! Thanks too for insight on how to create my own!👍🏻🙏

[@TheSecondOne123]

Thank you! Combining LUTs is a favorite pass time of mine haha!

[@rgarlinyc]

@@TheSecondOne123 i hate to admit it, but I *never* thought of blending new LUTs on top of each other! 🤦🏻‍♂️Now I know, thanks to you!👍🏻

[@PhotoManipulation]

So glad you got something from the video!!

[@michaelwilson4159]

Thanks Abbey I can feel I’m going to make to many of these

[@TheSecondOne123]

Turining every color grade into a custom LUT is very tempting!

[@PhotoManipulation]

Cheers for the feedback, Michael!

[@BeyondTheProcess]

Great video, Abbey. Thanks!

[@TheSecondOne123]

Thank you!

[@PhotoManipulation]

Cheers, Shane!

[@MarkHunter-j5o]

Thx for this great video! Question: why did you just merge layers which ARE NOT part of the colour grade folder? Is that because you want to add them separately later?

[@tandlauer]

Thanks Abbey for this tutorial ! So, it seems that your color grading process is a build up process, with tries, and stack of a lot of LUTs for example, with different properties (opacity, etc). I was wondering if, when you know the starting point A and the final point B, you may be thinking sometimes "Well, knowing starting and ending point, I could have done the same with only a few curves or adjustment layers" ?

[@TheSecondOne123]

Yes kinda! In fact I used to be very insecure about showing how I color grade my images because I always anticipated “that’s a dumb way to do it” comments. Haha But now a days, I just accept that as long as it gets me where I’m going I’m fine with it Doing it in so many layers gives me more control too, so there are upsides!

[@PhotoManipulation]

Some great points here-thanks for the feedback!

[@WeberEdits]

Wait a sec... you add all the adjustment layers at the top? You don’t do any adjustments to the individual photos?

[@TheSecondOne123]

I do! But mostly just things like adjusting the lighting, shadows, and contrast. Though some color correction also happens. The top color grade is for the overall atmosphere and color of the image.

[@PhotoManipulation]

Hope you got the answer you needed!

[@ClintSmithHere]

Nice

[@nitareed4088]

Can you list the names of the LUTs you used?

[@TheSecondOne123]

In which of the image examples?

[@nitareed4088]

@@TheSecondOne123 the first

[@TheSecondOne123]

@@nitareed4088 Ah, the very first blue-toned LUT on the girl smoking (00:34) is called "Horror Blue" and is a default LUT in Photoshop.

[@PhotoManipulation]

Hope this helped, Nita!