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Student Image: Girl on Phone

Lesson 27 from: Dramatic Post-Production

David Nightingale

Student Image: Girl on Phone

Lesson 27 from: Dramatic Post-Production

David Nightingale

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27. Student Image: Girl on Phone

Lesson Info

Student Image: Girl on Phone

Okay on. So let's just most recovery snuggle. But you'll see here. There's a level of the explosion address. It's really minor, but it's kind of having to kind of fix that before we start. Um, so let's just open this one up. I know you. You you can have the captain's chair. Okay, It's been around a little bit. Stretch your legs. I right. So to convert to lab color mode, its image mode lab color again. I don't know what went on there is hair grows. All right. Okay. So what you're thinking here? Well, I was It was where I was initially going with this was not working with her specifically, but working on the background. So I was initially playing with it. I actually did a filter to basically ask her out to keep her consistent. That's when usually done. But I want to play with that one ad model potentially modified with the brick color in this area back here. Something different. Kind of give it a Edgefield to it. Maybe that's more grit to that was what I was thinking. All right, well, le...

t's first like calamari. Having Yes. Where case? A crack coastline create, occurs and just mentally I'm sorry. My palace in a different place. Top left. I'm sorry. Next, brother. So which cover we're gonna need? If we're gonna change the color of the wall, we're gonna need to work with the A channel. It's back in the area, magenta and potentially also working with Probably. Yeah. Let's start with the I because it's more red. Is yellow OK? No to the wrong way? Well, there's different ways. Different ways to do this. We can either spend the in points or even kind of Look at the big points, which you did there. Kind of other slightly abrupt sort of way. Let's let's have a think about right. Come on, guys. Chinese. What do we want to do? What we want is something that looks a bit different for the wall. So what? We're gonna suggest several ways we can go here. We could increase the saturation for the wall. All right, cause Paul, that's kind of what we have in mind. Is that no thinking more? Other red? Yeah. Thats read by this red overhead was bothering me as well as well, so I was thinking of doing something completely different. Well, I should just split, Tony begin, but it didn't look very well, but Okay, so what color would work? We don't want it to be too over the top. Probably because it is going to stand out as being just a huge splotch of a different color. So what would work restrictions? What about, like, a deep maroon that could possibly work. So I'm gonna kind of intensify the color. Okay, so it s it's just Yeah, I'm not sure how it's gonna work. With what if you just de saturate that color, okay? Yeah, Kind of. Wouldn't need lamp for that kind of do that. Masking listlessness, trying allergic towards Maria. Okay, So kind live to make it me a room. What? We're gonna need to mend it. Bon room. Doing me? Kind of. Yes, that's right. Deep dish red. Okay, so it's kind of an orangey red with the moment, isn't it? Yes. So we probably need if it's orangy red takes a yellow and of it, maybe even it's not big. What we need to do is identify the specific color of that SPLA judge. Okay, so if you go to the little handle, all right? That's right. No. Took me a while to get used. The hell's backwards. Yeah, kind of all you need to do. Geo. Take somewhere. Right? So now we got a point. Okay, So what we could do is we can drink that single point around on if we wanted to, but we're gonna going to affect the tones and the rest of the image elsewhere. If we do eso when I suggest is adding some control points on add one. Right, the middle if you can without sex in that one. But damn. And then add a few more going down towards the left. Yeah, probably. Right now I have a drag around with your first control point. That's right. Yeah. Or click it and use the arrow keys that that might be easy, given its close to the other one. What says going way, Way more orange in that directions. Okay, let's try the opposite direction. She's going. Don't worry about her, because on this occasion, her skin tone is very similar. If you let's just cancel it one per second way to put it back. If you look where her skin tones are, they're almost in the same place on the beach. And so kind of what we're gonna have to do is at some sort of mask it. So it's clever, but it can't distinguish between times very, very soon. A future one of the next list. A little bit higher if we don't want to see this prick there. If we don't want to see the affection of Thanks. Let's just listen unless can't face first before we start. Um, very crudely done without that was protective face. What? We're looking at this change. So we need to be bringing that point. Damn, that kind of what you're thinking of. Yeah, A little more. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. More so. Yeah. Okay. So what we need to do is just finish off were just a rough job from now. It doesn't need to be precise. I would need to be by the time he finished. Also down in the dress, right below the film. Yeah. I hope they're separate. Yeah, Okay. We'll talk about that one. Okay, that's kind of that's kind of quite settled. There is no call. Yeah, I quite like that already. Um, if we think about this original colors, just turn it off again. Is it gonna have a component in the A channel as well? Yes, it should. Yeah, I should, actually. So let's leave the be a minute. Let's go to the A channel. Ah, I'll let you carry. Let's see where it is in the eye care. So I see much the same sort place. So again, what you need to be doing now is like a kind of lock. The middle point, and there's a few more polite. Let's see what I was new. What's really going up? It's going to snatch right in that direction. You're increasing the red compartment kind of like that. More so it's on. What you do is you go, Larry. See, what you're doing is neutralizing insufficient across. Now you see, what I'm asking is wrong. I'm actually liking the magenta more so yeah, it's more fun. Feel to it. It's not that greedy that I was expecting, but it's taking it to a different direction that wasn't quite anticipating. Well, it's part of fun of fashion, especially live color mode. You can get some quite weird and wacky results. I'm well, me on, but no different. It was kind of girly pink is grilling pink. You're gonna salt here. I'm going. Brainwashed break. Yeah, personally, I would I would I would be bringing it down with that kind of something like that one thinks kind of quite like pinks. The other thing you could do as well, of course, is we've got some greens up here, right? So, uh, you kind of start angry. I think you kind of start net green. If we look at those, it tends to curve looking person that neutralizes it takes it to a brown cast. What kind of going kind of red were intimate with kind of weird company person in there. But so when you work with NRG beaker of keeping the curve nicest move is important because it's affecting luminosity. When you don't want that to be flat when you're working with on the color codes here, you'll notice that it's not affecting the brightness. What we are doing is making very precise changes color. But to do that, we're ending up with these weird points to this point. Here is controlling kind of saturation of this area, and this one is switching the color of the green, pushing up above the midline on its switching it to the complementary colors. Magenta. So using just one curve, what kind of radically altered the color of the entire wall? And we kind of unified the colors as well. Now here we've got green, reddish brown and blue, and it's all kind of shades of pink and great, kind of kind of slightly different Is that what best you know? They work this work better for me. What the people think they're getting feedback from online audience here. The, um, have a couple different, definitely have a couple of different comments, but they were asking about about the placement of the anchor point specifically and whether they could be higher up. Um, but they're not jumping in on specifics about the color. Okay, I'm when you're amending the color, the anchor point needs to be on the right spot for that particular color. So when you're using the handle, it tells you where that color is on this line, so you can't put it somewhere else and still affect the same color. It just doesn't work like that. So if we just turn this off for a second on, let's go scrapping you curve and go back to the A channel. If we look now the red, that is where the red is on the coast, it's kind of up from the mid point towards the top, right. We look at the green, the green is kind of down from the midpoint. So if I wanted to keep the Reds much the same eso way look, the rent values were kind into this, but we wanted to shift the green value at the top rocking. There's hold most the wall constant but I've added a point that represents into green from the window and I shifted the window so I'm not affected the wall. But I have changed the window, so I've locked down the section of the curve that's responsible for the Reds, which is kind of this top section on. Didn't look it down very well. It's been accurate, but I've moved the spot in section up to kind of change. The top does that kind of my sense is that making sense for you guys as well way I interpreted that question was whether they're your the anchor points always going to be at the midpoint and they think you're saying that it is right the okay, right? The crucial point about the anchor point in the middle is that it locks the neutral tones. So again, if I create a new CO just to demonstrate this, if I'm gonna move the middle, I'm shifting it kind of towards magenta or kind of towards red on it's magenta and bring some kind of shifted. Nice. Not really. Whatever you can, you can see what's happening on screen kind of forgetting which Perry is now. If I move the midpoint, I'm shifting the overall white balance. If you like, you could think about the midpoint in terms of white balance on By the same token, if I switch to be channel, what we're doing is we're pushing it towards yellow or push it towards blue to the reason I'm putting midpoint in. It's kind of to lock the color balance so I can then play about with individual colors so it's kind of in the middle, is neutral, so it locks anything that's vaguely neutral in the middle, and then you can play around individual coast from that. That's a good explanation that makes sense. Okay,

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Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Ive been following davids work and tutorials for around a year now...well ever since i took up photography as a hobby. Im a lifetime member to chromasia.com and have been working through his tutorials when time allows. There is no fast track approach to this subject but i wanted the best advice i could get. Ive always found david very approachable over the internet and is always willing to offer advice on questions ive had regarding all manner of photography questions, being a noob. Whilst the tutorials are very comprehensive and well written sometimes its hard to digest this by yourself. So when i heard that he was presenting a three day course over the net. I jumped (well not quite more like sat down) at the chance to make sure i was able to watch the course (didnt manage that either). Sometimes its better to have a monkey see monkey do approach to walk you through different aspects of photoshop. And after the first day of the tutorial, so much information sunk in more so than it did sat reading through the tutorials. Although i didnt get to actively sit and watch the remainder of the last two days i did purchase the course so i can refer back to it time and time again. I can highly recommend this course, its concise, well planned and enjoyable course to watch. When you subcribe to the course you even get the files david walked through so you can practice yourself. I cant really praise the whole package enough...but its an invaluable reference course and couple this with chromasia membership you have a package that will dramatically improve your processed photos, the way you think about composition and importantly your camera settings! Great stuff

a Creativelive Student
 

David’s Dramatic Post Production Workshop is an excellent source of both education and inspiration. The Photoshop instruction is excellent and was my primary reason for watching the workshop. I was very surprised by how thought provoking the shooting sessions in the alley were and the lasting influence it will have on my own photography. Firstly the preparation for the session in the alley was interesting – having a goal and a purpose in mind. The fact that they are producing interesting work to illustrate the points and techniques in a rather dull alley helps emphasize the learning. On my next shoot after watching the workshop I definitely made adjustments in my approach. The discussion, examples and instruction on the goal of making an image more dramatic is very inspiring. It really makes me step back and review my own work to see how I can approach it from a different perspective

a Creativelive Student
 

The workshop was a great opportunity to learn to be more purposeful and intentional about the creative process at the post-production stage. I found the second day of the workshop – where David goes into his own approach in Photoshop – to be the most valuable for me. I look forward to putting this new found wisdom into practice into my own work. Thanks David!

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