Color grading practical applications
While we will be doing practical color grading, I realize that everyone’s interpretation of color (what looks good and what looks bad) is different, so if any of the adjustments I make to my edits do not suit you, feel free to change them. My work is usually heavily saturated and highly dynamic (I do not do subtle very well) so make adjustments to suit you.
In this section, we will be covering some very popular adjustment styles you see in common edits, but feel free to make your own modifications,
Color grading practical edit 1 – teal and orange film look
One of the most common and frequent adjustments in the area of films is the popular teal and orange look, and this is a simple edit accomplished with a few of the previous elements stacked together:
- Color balance
- HSL
- Channel mixer
The goal of this adjustment is to get the channels to give you an orange tone to highlight the skin, and completely offset...