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10 Tips for Working in the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic

“Julieanne walks through 10 tips for working in the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic, including shortcuts for sliders and panels, customizing the interface, unique zoom options, and more!”

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4 Movies That Showcase Zhang Yimou’s Brilliant Use Of One Color Dominance

Looking for some color inspiration? Try Zhang Yimou’s films. This director repeatedly uses one dominant color in a movie to saturate it with emotion and symbol.

Here are four of my favorites.

Raise The Red Lantern (red)

House Of Flying Daggers (green)

Hero (white)

Shadow (black)

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Photoshop’s New Shareable Custom Adjustment Presets Feature

Now, you can create shareable custom Adjustment Presets in Photoshop.

Colin Smith, Matt Kloskowski, and Unmesh Dinda show you how.

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7 Movies That Mix Black & White And Color Masterfully

Black-and-white and full-color palettes present such different visual realities that it’s extremely difficult to combine them in a single project. Without a reason, it’s distracting, but when it’s used symbolically, it can work wonders. Below are 6 movies that do it masterfully.

The Wizard Of Oz

The Wizard Of Oz portrays Dorothy’s mundane life in Kansas in black-and-white and the dreamland of Oz in color.

Wings Of Desire

In Wings Of Desire, the ordinary world is depicted in color, while the spirit world inhabited by angels is portrayed in black-and-white.

Asteroid City

Colorization and black-and-white (plus varied aspect ratios) are used to represent different time periods.

The Purple Rose Of Cairo

Celia becomes entranced by Tom, the main character of a movie, who steps out of the black-and-white screen and into Cecilia’s color reality.

Pleasantville

Simplistic black-and-white Pleasantville becomes increasingly morally more complex, signified by the growing presence of color in the picture. The film also uses the idea of “color” as a metaphor for the separation of people of color during the 1950s.

JFK

Using different film stocks and shifting constantly between black-and-white and color, JFK weaves real and reimagined news footage together, making it difficult to tell fact from supposition.

Oppenheimer

Color shows Oppenheimer’s subjective point of view. Black-and-white shows an objective perspective, usually through another character’s point of view.

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The Cheat Code To Always Get Perfect Skin Tones With Photoshop

“Discover the incredible power of color palettes to always get the perfect skin tones in Photoshop! In this tutorial, learn how to get smooth and rich skin tones using sampling and Curves. We’ll also learn how to even out skin tones and prepare our image for retouching.”

00:00 What We’ll Learn
00:17 Example 1 – The Process
07:05 Example 2 – Easy Images
09:32 Example 3 – When it Doesn’t Work
10:23 Even Out Skin Tones
13:14 Finishing Touches
15:04 Quick Recap

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Use Presets To Quickly Reveal The Extraordinary Possibilities Hidden In One Image

Rushing towards perfect, you might miss it. Previsualization (seeing with your mind) is a fine start, but I recommend you use Lightroom to go further and visualize (see with your eyes). After exploring your options fully, you can perfect those results.

You can level up and speed up your game by using Lightroom’s Presets.

(Note, Camera Raw offers Presets that are identical to Lightroom.)

Virtual copies are the easiest way to make side-by-side comparisons.

Presets are the easiest way to preview the many possibilities one image contains.

Presets are also a great way to create a consistent look for two or more images. Once applied, you can tweak settings to optimize individual images while still preserving a unified style.

Presets can record any Edit setting(s) (one, many, or all) and apply them to any other image. A single click can produce results as subtle or dramatic as you like.

The many presets Adobe provides are a great starting point. You can make your own presets by customizing the defaults, by applying someone else’s, or by creating your own from scratch.

 

The Presets panel and the slider settings one preset produces.

How To Use Presets


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10 Best Uses Of Color In Movies Of All Time

As this video shows, “Color is one of the most effective tools in a storyteller’s arsenal.”

When you’re choosing the colors in your still images, you can find limitless inspiration from color grading in movies. This is true for single images and for series or bodies of work. Color will not only make your images look more compelling but will also help you discover and communicate more with them.

Find more inspiration with these resources.

10 Movies With Amazing Color Schemes

50 Iconic Films and Their Color Palettes

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Turn Any Color To Any Color In Photoshop

“Discover the Best Techniques to Change Any Color to Any Color in Photoshop! Whether you want to change blue to red, black to white, or white to anything you can think of, we will cover it all in this tutorial. Using the power and the right amount of Curves, Hue/Saturation, and Masking, learn easy ways to change color in every situation.”

00:00 The Problem with One Technique
00:34 Color to Color
03:41 Similar Color to Color
05:07 Color to Black or White
07:48 Major Announcement
08:23 White to Color
10:41 White to Black
12:35 White to Dark Color
13:01 Black to White
14:08 Black to Color

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The Top 6 Softwares To Fix Blurry Photos Compared

What’s the best tool to fix blurry photos? In this video, we compare the top 6 software and platforms to sharpen extremely blurry portraits and photos. From old noisy images to recovering out-of-focus areas, we will test it all. We‘ll also discuss which one is the best and learn a Photoshop trick to colorize black-and-white images. I hope this video helps. Thanks so much for watching 🙂

00:00 Intro
00:39 Topaz Photo AI
02:43 Remini
04:35 Fotor
05:44 Luminar Neo
07:19 On1 NoNoise AI
08:00 Canva
09:09 The Main Comparison
09:53 Image 1 – Noisy Old Photo
11:42 Image 2 – Slight Portrait Blur
14:43 Image 3 – Missed Focus Portrait
16:03 Colorizing the Photo
16:19 Which is the Best?

1. Topaz Photo AI: https://pix.live/photoai (Free trial available)
2. Remini: https://pix.live/remini (Free version leaves watermark and is limited)
3. Fotor: https://pix.live/fotor (Free version leaves watermark)
4. Luminar Neo: https://pix.live/luminartrial (Free trial available)
5. On1 NoNoise AI: https://pix.live/on1nonoise (Free trial available)
6. Canva: https://pix.live/canva (Can use for free)

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How To Use Photoshop’s Select and Mask To Cut Out Smooth Edges

“How to use Select and Mask in Photoshop to cut out smooth edges. Colin Smith explains how Photoshop Select and Mask works part 2 of 2.” View part 1 of 2 here.

00:00 Intro
00:12 Making the selection around the car
01:02 Manually fixing details (The tools)
02:10 Additional Tools – Object selection and Lasso
03:02 Global Refinement Tools
03:33 Smooth Tool
03:45 Feather and Contrast. How they work in Photoshop
04:50 Shift Edge
06:17 Making further refinements with Masks

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