Tried this and selected 10 colours to create the palette and it works much better as you're inputting more detail of specific colours to the image from the previous one
That's a really easy photo to use. It would be a bigger tip if you were to use it on a Photo containing skin tones and see what extra effort needed to be added in order to completely mimic the look (separating the skin tones is a huge deal).
Dude, a tutorial where I don’t have to skip through a long irrelevant intro, I like you already! I’m not using this for movie grades but stealing the grading from movies for fashion editorial pics. Many thanks homie!
You probably have one of the best working knowledge of photoshop I've ever seen. More importantly, you have a lovely way of teaching without over speaking. Excellent!
I'm not even working on anything like this but I found this technique to be pretty amazing and I love the creativity by people like you in the community. Keep being helpful! Thanks for the vid.
It wouldn't work, there's a lot more fiddling to be done as well as masking stuff in the photo as you don't want everything to appear colourized. It's a color guide at best.
@KolTony It actually does work because you're taking the exact colors from the image itself. Now the problem with that is you're taking away the human eye. That is why afterwards you have to tweak it. Color grade it. Play with it. Mess around with it to try to make it your own look. But copying a movies colors gives you a base to play with.
@KolTony I get what you're saying but I'm saying this method scientifically gives you the closest thing to the exact colors used in your favorite movies. Now can you just drag and drop to every video and will it work? Ofcourse not. But if you've been using photoshop for a long time this method takes like 2 mins. And for color grading photoshop is a lot better than lightroom especially if you're color grading for video.
@@elonlove343 Dude stop arguing like an idiot. If I need all that tweaking why would I do this at all you door knob. Also nowhere in video it says you gotta be an expert in Photoshop to do this. Shut your nonsense hole.
Sorry to say, but this method is not really a good choice. Doing it the way described in the video does work on monchromatic color grades like in the Marsian (all orange) or Matrix (all green). But if you have more colors like the classical teal and orange look i.e. this does not work.
I would want to see this on an image or clip that actually had something in it other than dirt, seems like this is just a tutorial on how to make an orange overlay and isn’t super representative of what this would look like on skin tones or with anything with any sort of color variation. I love the thought put into it but don’t know if it would work on anything that’s not just the same color
@@hunkosaurusrex While I agree that this video IS just an introduction, this dude isn't being strictly negative, This is constructive criticism. And you're over here on an internet crusade, out for blood. Just chill. Constructive criticism is not negative.
@@hunkosaurusrex You're delusional, What put downs do they use in their comment? Despite the fact that their comments aren't strictly relevant to the video, they say they love the thought put into it, they aren't trashing him, Jesus Christ man, chill. It's a cool video and they aren't saying otherwise, they are pointing out an ACTUAL VALID FACT, it just isn't super relevant. Have a nice day man.
@@hunkosaurusrex you're talking about yourself the guy has a point its really not a good example image at all. No dynamics. You have your head up your own arse if you cannot see the truth this person is pointing out, its obvious.
True, just like you put a boring dull muddy brown overlay over your footage. This is no way can match the "authentic cinematic mood" from the original movie!
That much work isn't worth it for me. Thats insane it takes that many different steps to come away with an image! Think you can just put them side by side and get it closer faster by eye then doing all that! I mean you seem to know what you're doing and are great at what you do. Just for me if it takes that much time to edit one photo thats where photography isn't fun and makes it not feel realistic unfortunately! My favorite part is taking photos and not the behind the desk with years of tutorials that are constantly changing when they keep adding more shit that just gets more confusing for someone simple like me! Thanks for the video though, well done!
Non-Pro Tip: Take a screen grab of your PSD file at the 1:50 step. Crop image to area of interest. In this case, the three swatches. This'll save you jumping thru all the .ACT steps.
Dude I have never seen anyone do colour grading like this, it's an excellent way of taking grades from bug movies as you state. Thank you for an amazing tutorial
Of course you could save a lot of time by opening the comparison view in Lumetri colour wheels panel, put your Martian picture in first (reference) window then press ‘match’. Viola! Martian look in seconds.
O.K. I will copy the link to this amazing tutorial. And save it because I will definitely come back to use this for a story telling video. Thanks for this clear and outstanding tutorial.
Could something like this be done for everything everywhere all at once? The colors there are amazing. Especially the greens .know this is from 3 years ago but If you could do a tutorial that would be great!
Damn, i always asked myself how the f*ck do these people use the color tables they want as a look/lut in their videos, now i know! Great video dude... the look of my next music video i am going to shoot has to be like matrix. With this method, you‘re saving me a ton of hours searching for the right gradient
This is really interesting, and you manage to pitch it at just the right level to be clear without being patronising. Good work, you've gained a subscriber :)
Thanks so much, please I like the tone of your own video, is it an art lens or what makes it have that feel of a cinematic look? Would love to know. Thanks
The way people learn and develop their own styles is through others, my first video projects are similar to my favorite directors and from there as I learn more I developed my own style.
The color grade in Guillermo Del Toro Movies is just awesome! The Devil's Backbone, Shape Of Water, Blade etc are just amazing! Guillermo Del Toro make movies like it's poetry!
This is Impressive! Great job on giving such an easy explanation of this process! We think that it is insanely popular for photographers to make photographs that refer to movies, so thank you for providing us with this tutorial!
Cant be a coincidence that it's exactly the same step by step as pix imperfect. But I'll give u the benefit of the doubt dude. U detailed it well so what if its cooied u did a banging job mate carry on.
Great video, thanks for this! Does this work in black and white as well? Would this be the same technique? Would be great to know how to "copy" a certain black and white look :-)
Hello Mr Summers, could you apply a similar, or same process for B+W, say to emulate the tone, d-max and so on, of certain film stocks and luts? Thank you, your tuts are very concise and easy to follow, even when the process becomes complicated.
That is a really nice tutorial. Well done you. One question. If you sampled all 256 colours, sure, it would take fairly long time to place all of them, but would it make the new scene more accurate? Without using curves and all those steps you have done afterwards?
Excellent tutorial mate. I'll try this technique this week. Kind of a stupid question when u mention skin grab is that a screen snapshot using premiere pro or can u use the photos of say the Martian from Google? Cheers
Both Lumetri and Photoshop have color matching features that would have been 100 times easier and produced a better result. LUTs are much more powerful than the two dimensional way you are using them here to just transfer curves and a gradient map.
Hi Mason! At first of all, an interesting technique! Thanks! Is there any possibility just to extract LUT from a Photo and apply it to Another one? Or Just Color Matching function?
This was a dope tut. I just used this on a project and it worked well. Question: If the scene has a person it... why wouldn't we sample the skin-tone into the mid-tones as opposed to the highlight that you mentioned? I thought the skin-tone lives in the mid-tones. Great walk through!!!!
This is awesome...thanks for this Mason! Will this work using the LUT in other software (using iMovie right now but considering more robust editors like Resolve)
Amazing! Great work around and you explained this so well!! Loved your video and learned something so so valuable. And agreed, the Martian looks dope af
Hi Mason, very nice photoshop technique, do you know a site where to get real trustworthy epic movie pics? seems a lot of google pics (epics) have been tempered with one way or the other and it wouldnt make sense to extract palettes from images that dont represent the original look anymore.
Stealing colors does not equal stealing ‘grading’, which is a craft and a very custom job to whatever lighting, lenses, camera settings were relevant in the process.
This is a cool idea, though you show 4 colors on your title card, which I can't figure out how to put in the white, grey and black color pickers of the Adobe suite programs, and others using Resolve use another just as fast way to colorize their stuff. I'm gonna try your method and theirs and see which one I like the most. My Machinima awaits. It's interesting how some types of political beliefs are allowed on ytube, and others are censored. It's great to live in a world where I'm not allowed to hear all sides and decide for myself how to conduct myself, because I didn't realize how stupid I actually am, and I need other people to tell me how to think. I do appreciate this hack though.
What're some of your favourite movie color-grades!? let me know down below!
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Molinare)
madmax
Fargo TV Series
David Finchers SE7EN
sopranos
Tried this and selected 10 colours to create the palette and it works much better as you're inputting more detail of specific colours to the image from the previous one
I've been using Photoshop for 20+ years and Premiere for about 8 and I learned more in the last 13 minutes than in the last three years. Well done.
Didn't know about that double-click color picker on the Curves panel, and I've always been looking for a function like that one. Thanks!
That's a really easy photo to use. It would be a bigger tip if you were to use it on a Photo containing skin tones and see what extra effort needed to be added in order to completely mimic the look (separating the skin tones is a huge deal).
This was amazing. Thank you! (Saying it's super simple on repeat helped soothe my nervous system about all the steps.)
Dude, a tutorial where I don’t have to skip through a long irrelevant intro, I like you already! I’m not using this for movie grades but stealing the grading from movies for fashion editorial pics. Many thanks homie!
You probably have one of the best working knowledge of photoshop I've ever seen. More importantly, you have a lovely way of teaching without over speaking. Excellent!
I'm not even working on anything like this but I found this technique to be pretty amazing and I love the creativity by people like you in the community. Keep being helpful! Thanks for the vid.
You are the reason I dissabled Ad Blocker and suck up all of those ads... the least I can do.
To me, the final image just looks orange and monochrome. Doesn't give me an idea of how this would work on photos with...stuff in it.
It wouldn't work, there's a lot more fiddling to be done as well as masking stuff in the photo as you don't want everything to appear colourized. It's a color guide at best.
How often will you use a mars effect lol? Don't think of it that way. You can use the method he showed to replicate any color grade from any movie.
@KolTony It actually does work because you're taking the exact colors from the image itself. Now the problem with that is you're taking away the human eye. That is why afterwards you have to tweak it. Color grade it. Play with it. Mess around with it to try to make it your own look. But copying a movies colors gives you a base to play with.
@KolTony I get what you're saying but I'm saying this method scientifically gives you the closest thing to the exact colors used in your favorite movies. Now can you just drag and drop to every video and will it work? Ofcourse not. But if you've been using photoshop for a long time this method takes like 2 mins. And for color grading photoshop is a lot better than lightroom especially if you're color grading for video.
@@elonlove343 Dude stop arguing like an idiot. If I need all that tweaking why would I do this at all you door knob. Also nowhere in video it says you gotta be an expert in Photoshop to do this. Shut your nonsense hole.
Sorry to say, but this method is not really a good choice. Doing it the way described in the video does work on monchromatic color grades like in the Marsian (all orange) or Matrix (all green). But if you have more colors like the classical teal and orange look i.e. this does not work.
I also have this in mind
That makes sense yea
@@mounorman what Topic?? Can you please say Just the name of the vídeo?
Are you gonna offer ideas or point your finger down some more?
Show us dude.
Super useful. I had no idea photoshop could export LUTs! thanks!
Saved to my favourites for eternity. Please never delete this video.
My mind has been... BLOWN!!! I AM TRYING THIS IMMEDIATELY!
I would want to see this on an image or clip that actually had something in it other than dirt, seems like this is just a tutorial on how to make an orange overlay and isn’t super representative of what this would look like on skin tones or with anything with any sort of color variation. I love the thought put into it but don’t know if it would work on anything that’s not just the same color
@@hunkosaurusrex While I agree that this video IS just an introduction, this dude isn't being strictly negative, This is constructive criticism. And you're over here on an internet crusade, out for blood. Just chill. Constructive criticism is not negative.
@@hunkosaurusrex being passive aggressive to people is also being negative
@@hunkosaurusrex You're delusional, What put downs do they use in their comment? Despite the fact that their comments aren't strictly relevant to the video, they say they love the thought put into it, they aren't trashing him, Jesus Christ man, chill. It's a cool video and they aren't saying otherwise, they are pointing out an ACTUAL VALID FACT, it just isn't super relevant. Have a nice day man.
@@hunkosaurusrex He This guy made a very light critic, 90% of the other comments are: This video was totally useless
@@hunkosaurusrex you're talking about yourself the guy has a point its really not a good example image at all. No dynamics. You have your head up your own arse if you cannot see the truth this person is pointing out, its obvious.
Just made weird sepia effect. Also I can't double click on the curve sample icons
True, just like you put a boring dull muddy brown overlay over your footage. This is no way can match the "authentic cinematic mood" from the original movie!
Never knew that Photoshop can Make Premier LUTs. You save My Day MAN !
Wow thank you so much. I've been wonder what do they use movie color template for. Now i know how to cop these amazing color gradings for my photos
That much work isn't worth it for me. Thats insane it takes that many different steps to come away with an image! Think you can just put them side by side and get it closer faster by eye then doing all that! I mean you seem to know what you're doing and are great at what you do. Just for me if it takes that much time to edit one photo thats where photography isn't fun and makes it not feel realistic unfortunately! My favorite part is taking photos and not the behind the desk with years of tutorials that are constantly changing when they keep adding more shit that just gets more confusing for someone simple like me! Thanks for the video though, well done!
Non-Pro Tip: Take a screen grab of your PSD file at the 1:50 step. Crop image to area of interest. In this case, the three swatches. This'll save you jumping thru all the .ACT steps.
It's not exactly a feature but the grade on the Pixes Live at Newport Festival is lovely.
Dude I have never seen anyone do colour grading like this, it's an excellent way of taking grades from bug movies as you state. Thank you for an amazing tutorial
I'm glad you liked it! Be sure to check out some of my other tutorials!
This is a really great tutorial. I’ve been a colorist for years and have never lifted a color scheme in quite this way.
pulled from @UCMrvLMUITAImCHMOhX88PYQ so he's good at copying ;)
I tried this out and it really speeds up my editing process for color grading. Thanks again
Glad to hear it!
Of course you could save a lot of time by opening the comparison view in Lumetri colour wheels panel, put your Martian picture in first (reference) window then press ‘match’. Viola! Martian look in seconds.
Obviously you’ll want to tweak a lot more if you’re trying to match something as an insertion or something but that is great. Thanks!
O.K. I will copy the link to this amazing tutorial. And save it because I will definitely come back to use this for a story telling video.
Thanks for this clear and outstanding tutorial.
Could something like this be done for everything everywhere all at once? The colors there are amazing. Especially the greens .know this is from 3 years ago but If you could do a tutorial that would be great!
Blade runner, the night scenes, it’s difficult for the midtones but it makes a difference on your street photografie
Fantastic !!!! Darkest hours is one of my favorite color graded film. It also has a lot to do with the lighting
Absolutely! Filmmaking is 85%+ about the lighting!
Mason Summers so true it’s my challenge for 2020: make my own movie with a great lightning set up ;) cheers and thank you for he great content
Doesn't really work for images with a lot of color variety
In games with CGA gfx we had only 4 colors! :)
@BTON Some old game graphic artists were able to create masterpieces using just four colors. So it's up to you only.
@@KiR_3d no
youre missing the point
@@letsprogress4124 I agree, From this technique you can only create monochromatic grading.
Video on colour grading “open up pr or ps or other”
me: confusing Blackmagic noise
Seriously everyone watching you owe you one. Thanks bro im subscribing
I'm gonna steal this and make all my videos look like the red/blue contrasts in mad max
Probably the best Color Grading tutorial. Great great work. Much thanks!
Next: how to steal Matt Damon from his movie
Nuke + Geotracker (KeenTools) : ruclips.net/video/GFjbqx9n6I0/видео.html ;-)
I will wait for how to steal the budget from your favourite movie
*Jimmy Kimmel gets excited*
Matt Damon: "Matt Damon."
You don't steal Matt Damon, he steals your movie
man this is one of the best color grading tutorial video on youtube!!
"It's really super simple." That brings a smile all the time for beginners like me. So, thank you.
Would love to see this reversed, with Matt Damon transferred by a LUT back to a back-lot on planet earth.
Damn, i always asked myself how the f*ck do these people use the color tables they want as a look/lut in their videos, now i know! Great video dude... the look of my next music video i am going to shoot has to be like matrix. With this method, you‘re saving me a ton of hours searching for the right gradient
Kartal they color grade from scratch
LUTs are NOT the way to grade. Just learn your tools.
This is really interesting, and you manage to pitch it at just the right level to be clear without being patronising. Good work, you've gained a subscriber :)
8:40 when I got to map my tones the color picker does not register an input when selecting?
Thank you very much, love it, i will apply it, i didn´t know how to make luts from PS and send them to Pr
Thanks so much, please I like the tone of your own video, is it an art lens or what makes it have that feel of a cinematic look? Would love to know. Thanks
instead of shilling one's presets i think this is actually the way , teaching peope how to do color grading by themselves
The way people learn and develop their own styles is through others, my first video projects are similar to my favorite directors and from there as I learn more I developed my own style.
Every art starts from mimicry.
The color grade in Guillermo Del Toro
Movies is just awesome! The Devil's Backbone, Shape Of Water, Blade etc are just amazing! Guillermo Del Toro make movies like it's poetry!
Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy
"Hey guys what's going on?"
Me: it's actually pretty tough recently
Found this interesting clip to try....thank you!!!
This is Impressive! Great job on giving such an easy explanation of this process! We think that it is insanely popular for photographers to make photographs that refer to movies, so thank you for providing us with this tutorial!
I’m going to test this out and take the colour grading from Dark - those tones are dope
thank you my friend... im just in the comments to help push the video out to more ppl.
OMG!!!! YOU ARE A FREAKING GENIUS!!!!!! I will definitely be using this.
Haha! Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!
It's amazing tuition about color grading, btw,what's the difference between matching function in Premiere.
this is the best tutorial on RUclips! 1.87K subscribers? It should be 1.87M. C'mon guys!! He deserves it!
Thanks for this in-depth color grading tutorial.
Dope shit, my friend! Good vibes all the way through
How can i do it in Affinity Photo ?
Now how do I do this in After effects ?
Mind Blown 🤯 That was awesome. Thank you!
Cant be a coincidence that it's exactly the same step by step as pix imperfect. But I'll give u the benefit of the doubt dude. U detailed it well so what if its cooied u did a banging job mate carry on.
Great video, thanks for this! Does this work in black and white as well? Would this be the same technique? Would be great to know how to "copy" a certain black and white look :-)
Hello Mr Summers, could you apply a similar, or same process for B+W, say to emulate the tone, d-max and so on, of certain film stocks and luts? Thank you, your tuts are very concise and easy to follow, even when the process becomes complicated.
You're genius! This blew my mind!!!
Great work dude!! Now I can steal Peaky Blinder color scheme
cheers for that, some interesting things i've learned about Ps and Pr, i'll give it a go and see how it looks over a variety of clips
That is a really nice tutorial. Well done you. One question. If you sampled all 256 colours, sure, it would take fairly long time to place all of them, but would it make the new scene more accurate? Without using curves and all those steps you have done afterwards?
That was one of the best tutorials I have ever seen on RUclips! Thank you so much!!!
Had always assumed this must be possible! Very well done man, solid thumbnail too 👌
Thanks George! Glad you enjoyed it! 👊
Genius tutorial man, i am making a short film inspired by blade runner so this technique will really help me to color grade the shots.
Dude this was a game changer. Well done. Super interesting trick
Excellent tutorial mate. I'll try this technique this week. Kind of a stupid question when u mention skin grab is that a screen snapshot using premiere pro or can u use the photos of say the Martian from Google? Cheers
Great Tutorial! Very easy to follow and you really went slow enough to create a lut along with the tutorial. Great job! Thank you very much.
Thanks for a great video. Would love to see more about color tables and color grading, I too lust after tasty colors from films!
Could you please link that exact LUT because it looks really nice
You can screen grab the colors and make it yourself
This would have been much more interesting with a less monochrome color grading.
Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks man!
Both Lumetri and Photoshop have color matching features that would have been 100 times easier and produced a better result. LUTs are much more powerful than the two dimensional way you are using them here to just transfer curves and a gradient map.
Hi Mason!
At first of all, an interesting technique!
Thanks!
Is there any possibility just to extract LUT from a Photo and apply it to Another one?
Or Just Color Matching function?
This was a dope tut. I just used this on a project and it worked well. Question: If the scene has a person it... why wouldn't we sample the skin-tone into the mid-tones as opposed to the highlight that you mentioned? I thought the skin-tone lives in the mid-tones. Great walk through!!!!
and you forgot to mention the red suit
I will definitely use this for my next project. Thanks!
This is awesome...thanks for this Mason! Will this work using the LUT in other software (using iMovie right now but considering more robust editors like Resolve)
It should work! Although I've not tried it!
@@_MasonSummers how could i use this in resolve?
@@NebulousFilms sorry dude, I don't use resolve! You'd just have to add the LUT I imagine!
@@NebulousFilms just like u would use any lut in resolve .
doesnt really work for skin tones at all unless im missing something just made everyones faces orange/brown the same as the background
Use more than three colors.
Why are you guys hating? This is a great video
Amazing! Great work around and you explained this so well!! Loved your video and learned something so so valuable. And agreed, the Martian looks dope af
That was awesome! Thank you for the tutorial. Easy color grading yess
Genius, thank you so much for teaching this! Super easy to follow along and memorize. I salute you!
Hi Mason, very nice photoshop technique, do you know a site where to get real trustworthy epic movie pics? seems a lot of google pics (epics) have been tempered with one way or the other and it wouldnt make sense to extract palettes from images that dont represent the original look anymore.
I love the look of David Finchers films.
Me too Clint! His work is incredible on the whole!
@@_MasonSummers Would you be able to analyze his films for how he uses Grading?
I might look into it!
Thank you, your color grading tutorial and saves for the luts are really awesome. keep doing tutorials, you're great.
Great use of those tools/options to get to a nice end result. Thanks for the tips mate.
Not at all what I expected. This is brilliant - thanks for sharing!
Thanks dude! 👍
Now i am going to steal your colour grading (done in this video)
complicated but really interesting - thank you
Stealing colors does not equal stealing ‘grading’, which is a craft and a very custom job to whatever lighting, lenses, camera settings were relevant in the process.
Thanks! This answered so many questions I had about coloring.
Oh, saw the Kinemaster icon in the corner thought this was kinemaster. No shade at all, I think you do great work. The thumbnail is a bit confusing.
The LUT file doesn't seem to play ball with premiere for me. I get an odd posterised image when adding the file.
Same for me, did you figure a way around it ?
This is a cool idea, though you show 4 colors on your title card, which I can't figure out how to put in the white, grey and black color pickers of the Adobe suite programs, and others using Resolve use another just as fast way to colorize their stuff. I'm gonna try your method and theirs and see which one I like the most. My Machinima awaits.
It's interesting how some types of political beliefs are allowed on ytube, and others are censored. It's great to live in a world where I'm not allowed to hear all sides and decide for myself how to conduct myself, because I didn't realize how stupid I actually am, and I need other people to tell me how to think.
I do appreciate this hack though.
So. Much. Work. I'm impressed/shocked.
If anyone tells me that Millennials are lazy, I'm gonna show them this video.