In today's video I'm going to do a complete class on How you can make your color much better and I'm going to show you a Hack here that I use to copy a reference to copy a movie, right, a scene from a movie The color of a movie I'm going to show you how you're going to do all the correction of your image and then how you're going to color your video Also, here in the description there will be a package for you to download several luts that I use in my daily life, totally free for you to download, now stay here with me and I I'm sure you'll really enjoy this tutorial, let's start with it here on the computer, but it works the same thing on the cell phone or any other software you're going to use. I'm going to do it here with our dear Capcut. I'm going to start with a very raw video so we can do the correction part of it first.
without contrast your image will probably not be as beautiful as you would like. So I'm going to show you how you can correct your image and then I'm going to use a horizontal image now and then we can also use some vertical ones so you can see how much this also influences the look, right, the cinematic look, in a look that you suddenly want to copy, right, that you want to do from somewhere, I'm going to show you a very easy way to do this, I know you must know, right, the big and famous tool here that if you come to adjust it, right, it has the color combination here. very cool, right?
You can simply put a video where you want to copy the color, but it doesn't always work so well, right? It's a tool that has its errors, so for you to actually have a color similar to what you want, you need to do it in your eye and know what you 're doing, right ? We're not going to use masking, now we're going to come here, I'm going to remove the color combination, you'll see that here we have the lut option, right ?
It's cool, it's interesting but it's not the best way to do it. The correct thing is for us to come here first, for the blacks. So we're going to lower our blacks here a little and also raise the white.
Oh , so we're raising our White, right, it's already a little more contrasted . there are highlights here, you'll see that, o, it will start to make the image more vivid, o, this is one of the ways you can correct it, you could also correct it here by the curve, ok, if I disable all of this, o, and come here in curves, I can simply o, here on our right side are our high lights, o . result you can do a little here a little there Anyway, at the moment I'm not yet in the creativity part, I'm in the color correction part, in other words, everything here is being corrected, I'm just going to come back here, I'm going to cancel this one and I'm going to go back to our correction that we made here, I feel that this way it's more controlled to do it by adjusting it than by curves, but everyone does it the way they think is best, which I do too.
I usually add a little more sharpness to have a little more sharpness at the end, when exporting, you get a nice result, I give a Boost, I use this here, I give this one a little bit, it gives a slight contrast, but it's not the same contrast as this one, so if you notice, I'll zoom in, and if you notice, it gives a different stop, it's like that clarity, I think it's clarity, I think it's I think it's Bush, I don't know, there's a name on Instagram that When you go to put it, you'll put a photo of it, it's exact Exactly this here it gives a forced particles I don't particularly like the particles that are here you can get a particle on YouTube as an overlay and throw it on top, if we pull it here, it creates the particles, right, nowadays it's actually quite good because it gives it, it's alive there, So it's shaking, this here simulates a film texture, right, so I like to use it, I don't like to use this one, like I said, I like to take it from YouTube and play it as an overlay. here but for now let's leave it like this and I'll go here in vignette Oh you can put more focus in the middle , right you darken the edges to put more focus in the middle of your image now we can pull a little too light our saturation look a little bit without color you see that it was very gray now we pull look the red there coming to life everyone appearing here better and here the temperature and Hue they are until Ok you can look even I think that here if I move a lot it is already in the correct pattern So if we even turn off the before after then here we have our correction just the correction now is the time to start really playing with the colors for this example here I'm going to use the Joker movie which has a great color grading that I think Wow, it's really cool, it totally combines there with context and this is a very important detail you need to understand exactly what the purpose of your video is color is very particular, right ? this darker thing I like a more cinematic feel in the sense of film texture, right, and there are people who already like something very colorful, even very light, right, they like to record almost on a white wall and another very important detail that a lot of people end up not understanding and end up getting frustrated when it comes to making a color grid, right?
When it comes to coloring the video, your art direction and your photography totally influences when you color your video, so if you look here, for example, at Joker, you'll see that it looks like so much color. and as the composition is cool, so here we have a yellow one in the car headlights, the street, right, it has several different colors, Arthur's clothes here are also different, so he has a yellow one, a brown one, there's another one, right, other clowns there in red, so you can see that all of this influences even more than my example here that I'm showing you, you see that here he looks cool, but we don't have all the beautiful part of the art direction because this here was a video made normally, this here is a film completely planned to be beautiful to be cool. but in any case, we can achieve a very, very cool result, well, I said that I was going to use a lutch and I was also going to send you the lutch, if you have never used a lutch, you will see that here you have nothing, right, and normally, if you don't understand very well, you will use the filters here, right?
adjust it and you will see that I have a lut here, there is none, we will import the lut, it is one of the luts that is inside the Hollywood course package in the palm of your hand, inside I release, you know, several effects, I am always updating a package with everything I use on a daily basis, so I release it for the students to also use everything I am using, it is always there being updated, I will pull them all, it will be easier, right, so I will import them all at once and we have it here There are several very interesting options. I think this one is very good, the one closest to here is very good. For us, this is the number six, so I'm going to put it on top, I'm going to put it on top, it comes as an adjustment Oh, and now I'm just going to reduce this vignette that I don't like very much, I'm going to reduce it to one and now with our adjustment here, I'm going to slightly pull the temperature a little bit to the left because I want it to be more bluish and a little greenish Look there and now in this process you can start to let your creativity Hi So, how here we made the correction within our video inside With this adjustment we can move smoothly So we're going to come here I'm just going to raise the shadow a little bit more now I'm also going to decrease the exposure a little bit oh I'm going to pull the Hue even more here oh oh we're very close to another detail that I'm going to do I'm going to raise the white a little more and I'm going to apply it here, in this case it's well lit in the background, right?
The mass he makes here for us, but it's very strong, right? And besides, he changed the color here, right? It's cool, but it's not exactly what we're following here, you could use it like this, I'm going to take some of it off, I'm not going to take it all off because I like this blue here, I think it's coming into a nice tone, the strength is The Force Of This Light that we're putting in place to continue kind of similar there, well, that's it, we have this color very close to what we tried to get from the Joker, right from the joker now As I said, I'll show you with a short video so we can see in a different situation, also in this case, as I said, the image isn't totally wrong, it's already with a contrast pattern.
It already came with a pre-correction, right? If you analyze it, you'll see that it's not raw like the other one we saw. But it's a small detail.
It's dangerous for it to start blowing out too much. that I like to use a lot here in the capcut is this openheimer, right, it's from the film openheimer that we can put here, but it gives another Vibe, right, and a very very important detail, you'll never leave it here in its entirety, it's even there for the lut, right, don't leave it all, you'll pull it there for 50 40 or so, so, we no longer have something so artificial, I can even disable it and enable it again and you can, this way, play with other luts at the same time. we can suddenly look up here, look at Rumble, which was what I think is here is the humble one, I even wrote it wrong but ok, I'm going to put it here, look at how much we 've changed now, ours, the vibe of this thing, another detail I can do here is to come here at the hsl, here at the blue, look, we can change the tone of the blue, if you want a more paradisiacal stop, if I disable these two and leave the Hue here, o more greenish, you'll see, look at the difference.
It looks much better, you can give it a saturation if needed and the brightness too, you can change the green here, it always works very well when we want to put this greener green in a composition there with the sea because if we wanted to put a more yellowish green , if we start to remove the green a little until we pull it here, you'll see that where it's yellowish it starts to get redder towards Yellow, here too, if you want it to have that more paradisiacal feel, just pull it more here and leave it Always More greenish, and look at the difference we have here, oh, just with HSL and here the basics, right, I just gave it a light look, it was popping a little bit, I just gave it a little tweak in the light here, look, and without a filter, guys, you know. In my opinion, you do what I did there with Joker, you take an image that you really like from a film that you really like or a reference that you really like, put it on the side and you keep trying to get as close as possible And then you will be able to see if suddenly you are making it too contrasty or even if it is getting too blown out.
