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Color Toning with Reference

Color, Photoshop Aug 16 , Episode 110

Today we are working via request on an image with color tones. In our reference image we can clearly see different color tones. The challenge can be not only to tone an image, but also to do so in a way consistant with another photo. In this case we are sampling colors from our reference and using them on our photo.

Gear Used in This Episode

Wacom Intuos 4 Small

Adobe Photoshop CS6

15" Macbook PRO

Sony NEX 5N

Audio Technica AT2020USB Microphone

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NN

wow you did the episode I love it
thank you so much
http://twitter.com/rebecca812 Rebecca

Thanks so much…love these! Very helpful episode!
Stacey117

Thanks awesome tutorial!!!! I’m not sure where to put in requests for future tutorials. But I would like to see one learning how to do this. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150126579303281&set=a.10150126579208281.294900.225756568280&type=1&theater
henry

you’re awesome man..thanks a lot!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshlaiho/ JoshLaiho

Loveed the featured section!!! Thanks a lot!
Anonymous

Awesome tutorial, never seen that technique. I could watch you color tone for weeks on end- hope you do a lot more of the myriad techniques.

Thank you so much for the heads up on Muse, been trying to learn WordPress, but the backend seems to involve a lot of PHP which is way over my head.
Go

hey aaron, great vid! quick question: how do you get a grey background for CS5 on a mac? I don’t have that, all I see is my desktop, and I prefer having a grey background. Is this a preference setting I need to change? thanks!
NN

in photoshop press “F”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/je-souhaite/ Leah Goetzel

Awesome tutorial aaron. Do you think you could show us some more color/curves techniques? Like this one?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karrah_kobus/5963908790/in/photostream
http://www.facebook.com/greg.brave Greg Brave

What a great episode! Simple but powerful techniques, which open wast field for creativity! Thank you so much Aaron for this episode.
Rciprus

Love this tutorial! I’m definitely going to try it on some of my photos
http://fotografia.mercuriostudios.com.br Guilherme Coelho

Hey Aaron!
What about an episode that shows quickly the tools and shortcuts of photoshop and the best use for them? I have learned photoshop by practice and sometimes I feel I don’t know basic things, like changing from Text to Move tool using the keyboard.

Thanks a lot, man!
You’re awesome! Every day I show your work to a different person..
Amie Fuentes

could you possibly do an episode teaching people about layer masks? i know you use them quite a lot and i’m still kind of confused on their purpose.
http://www.facebook.com/dale.a.richards Dale Antony Richards

Aaron, I would LOVE an episode on how to create this sort of styling
http://www.leaf-photography.com/gallery/index.php#/content/2Photographers/Peter_Kemp/peterkemp-ophelia.jpg

It has always appealed to me as something I want to achieve and how I want to stylise my images.

Please let me know how you would create an image like that.
http://www.facebook.com/dale.a.richards Dale Antony Richards

Woah, don’t know why the gaps are so big!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chloe-Gibbons/598838783 Chloe Gibbons

Yes, gorgeous!
Crestina Photography

This was a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
Anonymous

I really like those as well. I am doing research on creating that type of effect. It seems to be linked to lighting as well.
Anonymous

You can also go to WINDOW- APPLICATION FRAME
Anonymous

very cool! We should do a snow image soon
brando

haha me 2 dale….me dale been dying to learn this 2…
brando

haha me 2 dale….me dale been dying to learn this 2…
brando

i believe alot of it is with toning in photomatix….
brando

jeez stacy you ask and you get it done in 1 day i been asking for stuff for months….god you must have some pull im jealous….
Cornflake Couture

Maybe Stacey is prettier then you Everything comes to he who waits brando
Go

thanks!
Canan

Wow Aaron! You rock! This was so cool! Really helped a lot!:-)
http://twitter.com/FotobyDemetrius @FotobyDemetrius

crap this came right in time with some things I have been struggling with!! great stuff once again.
http://twitter.com/StevenBrunton Steve

Nice! My first phlearn seminar. Have you done, or will you look into the ‘Dragan effect’, or the ‘Dave Hill’ look? Thanks : )
http://twitter.com/onSanity angelica

great one, thanks. still catching up with you!
johann

Aaron can you make an pdf / ebook about color toning? im trying to get a slighty warm dreamy /hazy look and i cant seem to get it. and im hearing disabled so i couldnt really hear what you were saying on the video. just following the images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dejanpecanac/ Dekipecanac

Maybe this will help as part of the process. Try to use high-pass
filter couple of times to get the shades right on small and large
details and each layer blur little bit. then use linear light, overlay
or soft light…load black mask and paint where you need light or dark
areas…

All best.