- [Instructor] Color Balance is a useful tool as well.
And I use it more for stylizing images,
rather than just trying to correct something.
However, it is good for correction as well.
Let me show you how it works.
So you have these different views in Color Balance.
You have the Master view, 3-Way where you can look
at Shadow, Midtone, and Highlights all in one view,
and then the way that I like to work
with Shadow, Midtone, and Highlights separately.
Let's go to Master, this affects all
of these at the same time.
I'm going to up my saturation, that happens right over here.
This is the saturation adjustment over here.
And let me just see what I can do here.
I'm going to see if I can get that, there we go.
So there's our saturation adjustment.
So I'm going to move it up about halfway
so you can see the changes that I make
when I play with hue, right here.
So I just rotate this around, and you can see
that this affects all three shadows, midtones,
and highlights, at the same time.
So that is, okay, that's pretty nice.
I like to work on the individual channels myself.
Now I can do that in 3-Way,
but I prefer to do them individually, where I just work
with Shadows first, and then I go over to Highlights second,
and then I'll go to Midtone third.
And by just having this one color wheel,
again with saturation adjustment right here,
hue adjustment right here, and then light
and dark right here, I can really focus on what I'm doing.
In one of the uses that I do with this
is to create a stylized color look.
For instance, a look that's been popular in the movies
is the teel and orange look, where you have teel
in the shadow areas and orange more in the highlight areas.
Let me show you.
I created a layer here, right here.
And that look right there.
(laughs)
I mean there're different variations on this,
but you can see how the blacks have this teel tint to them.
I'll turn on and off that layer
and you can see that change right there.
And then the skin tones, the highlights
and the midtones are more orangey.
This is very easy to do in color balance.
So, shadow, you notice that I moved it all the way over here
And I can increase the saturation on that if I want.
So I can go real crazy with that.
I don't (laughs), I don't.
I want to see just a little bit of teel in the backdrop
and maybe in the hair, but not too much.
And then again, of course, I can play
with the lightness and darkness of this as well.
We're going to make it a little bit lighter right there.
Okay, now next I usually do highlights.
And here you'll see that I'm very much
in the orange zone right here.
And I've moved this saturation up quite a bit.
Something like that.
And I've also moved the lightness up,
right there in the Highlights.
And then Midtones, very similar.
Not quite as orange here, I'm going to move
it a little bit more over to the orange.
Well, no I kind of like it right there, actually.
So I'm going to leave it right about there.
And then again Saturation, right there.
And then make sure things are nice and bright.
Okay, so that is using the Color Balance tool
to create a stylized look.
There's what we started with,
and there is my orange and teel look.
And you can do that with layers and just have
all these different looks and then just turn them on and off
and decide, hey I ended up liking layer number three,
and then go with that one.
Now if you want to do that, if you want to create these layers,
make sure that when you create the layer that you go
with the Filled layer when you work with this tool.
All righty, and I'll hit the M key
so you can see what I'm talkin' about.
See it's affecting everything in the shot.
Because I'm not doing any localized editing,
I'm just working on highlights, shadows, and midtones.