Fast and easy way to deal with color casts.
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2017
- We all deal with color casts in one way or another. Some of us live with it and some go to great length's to fix or adjust them..
When shooting real estate or commercial interiors its super important to correct for colors coming from lights and windows, remember, builders, designers and even agents want whites to be white and colors to come across accurately in your photos.
So sit back and enjoy just how quick and east it can be to adjust your colors casts.
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Disclaimer: as always there are many ways to do everything I do. And for this video there are certainly quality issues but as I always say, these tutorials are for the day to day real estate photographer and the focus is getting the information across.
who would down vote a video like this, haha.
the dude is doing this out of the goodness of his heart. for free.
people are insane.
Critique isn't a bad thing you know. The videos are reeeeeeeeeeeally long for something that might take 2-3 minutes to explain. It's nice he's doing them, but he's selling himself as an instructor here on RUclips, so goodness of heart does not apply. He's also doing a lot of stuff at the utmost basic way, just to get by. And you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble overtime if you only go by these rules. He talks a lot about, 'do as much as you want! But it's fine for me...' I mean, this is why some really sub par stuff makes it into print these days. Nice guy, decent work, but I don't know how I feel about him teaching new people about architectural photography.
Darren Jones, really? Gosh.
@@humenbean SO downvoting does what to help with the length of this video that provides valuable information for free? Just wondering.... You couldnt be more wrong.. countless people have started or revamped their real estate photography portfolio thanks to this mans video. How ignorant could you be?
There are a lot of people like darren jones who have no idea what they are talking about and think downvoting free content is some how a solution to their issues.
Rich, I have been watching a lot of your videos lately and want to say you provide some of the best information, very much appreciated, great job and thank you for all your effort!
The button you keep thinking of is the BRACKET buttons Rich😎
WOW! after years of using LR and a bit of PS I would have never thought of doing something so simple. Thanks Rich, such a useful tool that can be used for many aspects of photography that I'm sure is easily overlooked.
Rich , my sincere thanks for your videos - I am learning from scratch already seeing an improvement in my shooting and workflow thanks to you .
Thank you for this! It really helped me fix a photo I was working on. Love your videos ❤️
Happy to help
Thank you Rich for another great video lesson. I sincerely appreciate all that you do here on RUclips. Big fan of your work. 👍☺
Good stuff, Rich. Really appreciate these tutorials!
Very useful technique. Will save me a lot of time and improve my RE photos substantially. Thanks, Rich!
Thank you so much Rich..oh my god.. i love it!!
Thank You! The color casts have been driving me crazy and this technique should speed things up for me considerably.
I needed this last week! Ha ha. Thank u! Great video!
Thanks Rich - very helpful info for white kitchen counter tops photos which pick up casts ;-)
Great tip...thx Rich
You are a miracle!
Thanks
Another great technique that I have seen before.....
Hey Rich the mike is significantly better. Your voice and presentation was smooth deliverable nothing dropped.
That was the sound from the Sony a6000 in camera mic.. I had issues with the Rode Lav Mic but got it figured out for the next video.
Thank you Rich
I just love this technique! sooo clever and simple, yet I didnt figure it out before. It could be used in many other photos to help with lightroom brush limitation of not having an option to brush certain colors only!
Thanks for the comment, I hope you will also check out our Real Estate Photography Podcast www.ShootingSpacesPodcast.com
Before I used brushes with colder temperature in lightroom cus I didn't wanna use Photoshop, but this is actually faster.
I wish brushes in lightroom could include more then the basic sliders tho! having brushes with the color sliders would be awesome!
We can always wish
@@RichBaum well it's been suggested but nothing yet :/
Thank u Rich :)
Hey Rich, hold down the option key on a mac and move your mouse up/down/left/right to adjust size/hardness of brush. Nice time saver instead of looking at keyboard for the "[ ]" keys
Thanks for the tip!
Sorry but your tip didn't work for me..
Shoot, forgot to add that while you're holding option/alt, hold the right mouse button and move up/down/left/right
@@RichBaum
Me neither. Rich, My LR version is the latest but I dont get those colour sliders you use here at all. they are not on my version.
Best video! Thank u
Thank you
You can do this in Lightroom/Camera Raw directly, using Brush tool, no virtual copy or Photoshop needed.
Yes you can do so much right in Lightroom without the need to got to PS.
I have a webinar on fixing Color Casts and White Balance May 12 that will surely help you to speed up your WB adjustments in Lightroom.
So keep an eye out for the announcement today or tomorrow. Sign up with Shooting Spaces.
learn.shootingspaces.net/webinars
Great video! It was kinda cool to be watching your videos, then join a Photography page on Facebook and you of all people are the one that approved my request.
Just made a edit comparison video, would be interested in hearing your thoughts! Thanks again for all your great videos. The virtual copy is definitely something I'll be trying out.
Many ways to do everything, for this it gave me more control and a better result.
On my Mac, the brush size/hardness tip prior poster was referring to requires me to hold down both the "control" + "option" key together then click and hold, move up and down left and right to adjust brush preferences accordingly. I love using the shortcut...when my fingers remember to use both keys haha
Thanks so much.. that one works.. So I can adjust size going right & Left and hardness going up and down.. but how can I adjust Opacity?
Also, any other good tips for key combination shortcuts?
Happy to clarify! haha. The option/control combo is one that I use all the time with my tablet/pen when editing so my fingers typically rest on those two keys whenever I'm using the clone tool or brush tool or really any tool that has an adjustable size of sorts.
Opacity and Flow can both be shortcut accessed with the upper numbers on the keyboard on my MacBook. But give it a shot. With the brush or clone tool active, simply pressing a number combination manipulates OPACITY...a single digit press changes by respective factors of 10...quick successive presses of digits you can fine tune it (trying it is probably easier than me trying to explain haha). Adjusting FLOW rate works the same when you hold "Shift" key while pressing numbers. For me these number shortcuts are slightly faster than navigating my mouse over to click and select the text fields or using the slider.
I think those are shortcuts I use most often beyond the obvious like tool shortcuts on the keyboard like W for quick selection, P for pen tool, S for clone etc etc. I like using the "shift" key to cycle through variations of the same tool though if you haven't tried that. Hold shift and push keyboard shortcut to cycle...I use the "Shift + J" combo frequently too I find for the various healing brush tools. (I keep editing this as I think of more haha)
Carlos, you're awesome. That is all.
You can adjust opacity by pressing a number on your keyboard: 5 = 50% etc.
Sometimes painting the original color back in where you need it is easier than painting out what you don't want.
I don't see the problem with "color cast," most of the time it seems like an asset.. I come from the world of film lighting and can't understand why people would have a light on just to NOT see what it's going in a photo
Thank you. Have learned a lot from your videos. Do you have one for making indoor panoramas and straightening the curved lines that should be diagonal. As much as I use PS wide angle filter and transform, I end up with a crappy result and huge crop.
I plan to do a video on Perspective corrections..
Hey Rich, your tutorials are providing fantastic advice for an aspiring real estate photographer. I am looking to do this on weekends as a side-gig and considering the Nikon d7200 with a lens something like 15-26mm f/4.0. Regarding just this gear in its price range, would you steer me to anything else?
I don't think a 15-26mm will be wide enough. aside from that I think the 7200 will work fine.
Personally I would go for the Nikon 12-24 f4 as it's a great lens for RE.
I'm masking the area with warm lighting in lightroom and just change the white balance of the masked area.
That's also one way.. I prefer to do it this way..
Great stuff, Rich!! I do something similar to this, but with the virtual copy I actually change the white balance of the area in question instead of desaturating the cast. It seems more natural to me as the desaturation makes it too monotone/gray where I'd rather have the original paint, wall or cabinet colors instead. The other thing I sometimes do is take two or so shots on-site where the flash is on the right, the left or wherever it makes sense. Then I use PS layers to mask out me holding the flash. That is a little more time consuming, but it seems the most natural. One other thing, Rich, if you're reading. You almost told us the hot key to hold down to change the brush size, and I was all excited to hear it, but you bailed. What is that hot key and how do you implement it?
Hold down control and option and while holding down your left mouse
button drag right left or up and down.. this will adjust your brush size
and hardness
Thanks Rich!
Awesome video and great shots. But I wonder how is this different to simply opening a new hue/saturation adj. layer during your retouching and choosing the color cast tones and desaturating there with a mask? Wouldn't this be faster and offer the same result?
Just a different way of doing something..
Hi Rich, thank for these excellent video. It really helps me greatly. I have a little problem and maybe you can help me. When I come back in LR, after having worked on the layers in PS, the file has become a TIFF file and the colors care very different. When I try to fix this in HSL mode, this doesn't work anymore. Do I something wrong? Greetings from the south of France, John
Sorry I don't know what to tell you but you can change how the files are saved in your Lightroom Preferences.
what camera and lens do u use for property photography? Thank you!!
On my Siny a6000 which is crop I use Samyang 12mm and for my Nikon I use Nikon 16-35 f4, 19mm Tilt Shift and 24mm Tilt shift.. Nikon 24-70 & 70-200 for detail shots..
"You need a fast computer". Tell me about it! :)
We all need something faster
Rich, great video. I photograph a lot of homes with light yellow walls and lots of CFLs. Any advice of removing orange/yellow color cast without removing wall color? Tough problem especial with clients that demand accurate wall colors.
If you make a virtual copy of the image in Lightroom and then adjust the image for the right colors you want, then you bring both images into PS as layers and just mask in the parts you want.. this is just one way that works for me..
You can also take the extra step when shooting of shooting frames with a gray card or white card in the scene that you can later use to get an accurate color for your repair layer.
If you got a scene like this that the color is critical it’s worth taking the time to shoot an extra frame with a gray card in the trouble area. Then you can in Lightroom click on that gray card get an accurate color for your virtual layer for the area that you are concerned about and layer that in in Photoshop.
Once you get the color settings after clicking on the gray card you can apply those settings to the normal layer that doesn’t have a card in it to use as your repair layer
How to adjust levels curves and shadows highlights......
Rich I have went thru your color cast video. Thank you. What if I have two or more colors to deal with? Like the blues from the outside, some green from the vegetation and the orange/yellow from the lights. Do I repeat the color cast for each color?
Paul, you can make 2 copies of your image in Lightroom and adjust the specific colors for each, then you send all 3 into Photoshop and mask in what you need from each image.. Hope this makes sence.
thank you Rich. It does make sense. You gave me advice on my new camera body. I went with a used d810. Thanks for your help!!
Great tutorial. One question: is this any different than placing the color corrected layer over the original and using the eraser tool to reveal the original color from the bottom layer?
Not sure
Yes it’s very different. Using a mask and painting in or out what you want is non-destructive. If you use the eraser tool you’re basically tearing holes in the layer above to reveal what’s underneath if you shut off the bottom layer after doing that you’ll see you just got holes in your top layer or if you’re using a low flow the holes will be slightly transparent but there are still holes in the layer. With a mask you can reverse what you’ve done
Hi bro
My images all are very yellowish how to adjust original colour......... please show your video
I am working real estate photo edit
Why is selective desatch your go to option for this, over a simple click balance?
for this shot I found I needed more help than a simple overall adjustment, but as I always say there is many ways to do everything. and I like to show different techniques..
Then colour correction you can teach me