THIS COURSE INCLUDES
- 4 Lessonsin 2 sections
- 42mof captioned HD video
- Intermediatesome Photoshop basics
- 8 Sample Imagesto follow along
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Description
Have you ever looked at the color in a photograph or a movie scene and wished your images could look like that? Now they can. Learn how to match color in Lightroom and Photoshop, borrowing the look of any photo or film still. This course shows you how to study a reference image, read the color in its shadows, midtones and highlights, and bring that look to your own photos in 4 bite-size lessons, with the sample images included.
We start in Lightroom Classic with two examples, setting your reference right beside the photo you’re working on so you can compare as you go. You’ll learn how to color your shadows and highlights with the Tone Curve, how the Color Grading panel does similar work with a different interface, and how to fine-tune skin tones with HSL. Then we move into Photoshop and Match Color, an automatic tool that does a great job most of the time. For the times it doesn’t, you’ll learn the manual version with Curves, Color Balance and Selective Color, the same thinking you already used in Lightroom.
What You’ll Learn
- Borrow the color look of any photo or film for your own
- Shift color with Curves in Lightroom
- Match color across Lightroom and Photoshop
Course Downloads
Recreate the Color from Any Photo
Match Colors from Photos & Movies
Now you can recreate looks from any photo or movie using the tools in both Lightroom and Photoshop! Master professional color grading techniques while matching the style of any other image or scene.
Match Color in Lightroom and Photoshop: Start in Photoshop
Photoshop has a wide variety of color grading options that we can use to match the color between images. Whether you want to get the job done quickly with an automated tool or take your time with a more careful, manual approach, we’ll show you the tools to make it happen.
Match Color in Lightroom Classic
Lightroom and Photoshop each have their own strengths when it comes to photo editing, but both programs have powerful tools for color correction and color grading. That’s why we show you how to match color in Lightroom and Photoshop alike, with Lightroom’s many options for matching colors and creating beautiful styles. And if you’re new to Lightroom, work through our Lightroom Learning Path and learn about all of the major tools and features.
Professional Color Grading
Working with color is both an art and a craft. We show you the tools and techniques that professionals use to create stunning looks while also helping you recreate your favorite coloring from other images.
Understanding Curves
Curves might be the most powerful tool for color grading at our disposal. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed looking at the Curves tools in either Lightroom or Photoshop, we’ve got you covered, because Curves is the fastest way to match color in Lightroom and Photoshop. Learn how to adjust exposure while precisely adding color to the highlights, midtones, and shadows of any photo.
Hue, Saturation & Lightness
Coloring is all about three variables: hue, saturation, and lightness. When you match color in Lightroom and Photoshop, we break down how to control and shift these important options while explaining how each affects the overall look of an image.
Lightroom Color Grading Tool
There are a lot of tools that we can use for color grading, but there are only some that are made for it. Come along on a tour of the powerful Color Grading panel, the easiest way to match color in Lightroom and Photoshop, which makes coloring and styling images easier than ever before.
Automated Tools in Photoshop
Matching colors doesn’t need to take a ton of time. That’s why there’s quick and easy tools like the Match Color option in Photoshop. Learn how to use this automated tool to instantly match the style of any photograph.
Adjustment Layers
Adjustment Layers are the backbone of photo editing in Photoshop. We show you the most useful Adjustment Layers for color grading and matching color, from Curves and Hue/Saturation to lesser known options like Color Balance and Selective Color. Want to learn more about Adjustment Layers? Check out our PRO tutorial that covers each and every one!
Recreate Popular Styles
These techniques will help you recreate the color from any reference photo or video. So whether there’s a photographer whose style that you’ve been dying to try, or it’s a scene from one of your favorite movies, we show you how to replicate any look using a single image and some photo editing savvy.
Class Instructor
Aaron Nace
PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor
Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. Since 2011 he has taught millions of people to edit with confidence in Photoshop and Lightroom, on YouTube and in PHLEARN PRO, and he has been a featured speaker at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.
Every PRO course comes with the sample images and PSDs to follow along step by step, and Aaron adds new courses and free tutorials all year.
- 2M+YouTube subscribers
- 160M+video views
- 1,000+tutorials published
- 15years teaching Photoshop
Reviews
Master Photoshop, Lightroom and Photography
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I enjoyed this! I wish I saw this earlier especially the automated color matching for photoshop. Thank you.
I really hope you can translate such a good video. It’s a very necessary function for a foreigner. Otherwise, it’s hard for them to understand.
Wow! Color grading is something I’ve generally avoided in the past, this has demystified a lot of it for me. Thank you!
Aaron is really . . . what’s the word? . . . . like a savant. that’s the best way to describe him. Pro grade PS lessons? Check. Handsome, engaging host? You bet your ass.
I have been waiting for so long for these tutorials. Thanks, Aaron. Please more tutorials talking about colour grading 🙂
Overall very informative, though I prefer to work with numbers in ACR instead of “eyeballing” that there is magenta in the shadows and yellow in the highlights. I completed the exercise by sampling various darks/midtones/highlights on the source and then matching the RGB values with similar color sampling locations on the destination image.
It’s like Aaron has red my mind. As always, he’s an excellent teacher, teaching not only how using the different functions, but explains what’s behind each of them, their role and how to apply them. Aaron teaches how to look at the picture, how to see the different colours and understands what we look for. Great tutorial! Really came out right on time for me! Adding to my favourites classes. Worth every penny
Great detail on the manual and more complex methods however I would have liked to have heard more info on the sliders and impacts of them in the photoshop color match auto panel. I attempted to use the second image set with the auto method and the out of the box results were poor. With tweaking, it did get better. Some more discussion here would have been helpful.
Fantastic tutorial! This is something I have been wanting to learn for a long time. This is so easy!
Great to learn new ways to color grade–and lift colors from one image to apply on another. Too bad ACR doesn’t have that feature that you show in Lightroom. I don’t use Lightroom and this is one of the few things Lightroom has that ACR doesn’t. But I can use Photoshop’s tools as you show
This is another tutorial worth adding to my ‘Repeat often’ file. These essential techniques need to be practiced. Thanks for the bright and to-the-point explanations Aaron.