- [Narrator] With color grading,
you can stylize the look of a photo
by adding color tones to it.
Color grading replaced an older panel called split toning,
with split toning color controls were limited to highlights
and shadows of an image.
When color grading adds control for mid-tones
and global adjustments as well.
And the good news is that if you have any legacy
edits with split toning and applied,
they will automatically switch to color grading
without changing the color toning effect.
If you're following along with me,
you can find this photo in the chapter 70703 folder,
color grading adjustments can be made to color
or black and white images,
but I find it much easier to see what's happening
when working with a black and white.
So in the basic panel here,
I'm going to click on black and white to convert this image.
And while I'm here,
I'll click the auto tone to brighten it up.
Now we can open the color grading panel
and take a look at what's here.
We're starting in the default view,
which shows color wheels for all three,
midtones, shadows and highlights.
We can switch to individual views with these icons
so we have shadows, mid-tones,
highlights and the global adjustment.
I'm going to come back to this for right now,
I want to start in that default view.
We'll add color to the shadow end of this image
by just clicking on the color wheel.
And as I spin around the color wheel,
we'll see that the colors change.
So the color wheel controls the hue or the color
of the color or the saturation,
by moving towards the center of the color wheel.
There's less saturation and moving towards
the outside, there's more saturation.
You can constrain the color and adjust
the saturation with the shift key.
So I'm holding the shift key down
and it constraints the color.
If I hold down the command or control key,
it constraints the saturation.
While it shifts the hue around.
I'm going to go ahead and set this to a fully saturated
teal color because it's easy to see the effect it's making.
And then I'll click on the highlight color wheel
and set the highlight end to a fully saturated pink color.
So the color wheels control hue and saturation
and the luminous is controlled with a slider below.
If I click on the slider and move it to the right,
it will open the shadows and if I click it to the left,
it will darken the shadows down.
The real purpose of the luminous slider
is to lift the blacks,
so color can be applied in the darkest area.
As I open the shadows up,
we'll see that the teals
are now in the dark end of the image
and the opposite works for the highlights.
If I take the highlights down,
tone is added to the brighter areas
and they become more pink.
There's a couple more sliders beneath the color wheels,
the blending and the balance,
and they work a little bit differently.
Let's start with the balance.
This shifts the range of values
that define the highlights, mid-tones and shadows.
So if I shift the balance to the left,
we see that the image becomes more teal.
If I shift the balance to the right,
it becomes more pink
because it's shifting more of the highlights.
I can double click on this to reset it.
And we'll take a look at blending.
Blending determines the amount of crossover between colors.
And if we take this down to zero,
we basically have no crossover.
In fact, we see the mid-tones
of this image take on the neutral gray,
because the pinks of the highlights and the teals
of the shadows are not crossing over at all.
If I take the blending all the way to the right,
we now have maximum crossover,
that's even introducing a new color
where the teal and the pink are blending
with each other and creating this purplish color.
I'm going to go ahead and double click on that to reset it.
And we'll add some mid-tone color tones,
maybe a tangerine color in the midtones.
Beneath each of these color wheels is a visibility icon
that looks like an eye, clicking on that will toggle off
the visibility for that particular color toning.
So we can see what it looks like without the mid-tone
or the shadow or the highlight.
Now let's take a look at the global tones.
These can be added on top of the colors
that are already applied to the image.
Again, the color wheel works the same,
just click and drag it around.
We can add an orangy color globally,
across the entire image.
In this single view, there's a lot more options
than you have in the view with all three of them.
I'll click on the disclosure triangle here to open this up.
And we see that there are sliders for the hue,
saturation and luminance.
The visibility icon is here and there's even color presets
where you can save your favorite colors for color toning.
Each of these single views have the same options.
I'm going to go ahead and go back to the global color wheel
and double click on it to remove that,
any of the color wheels can be reset
by double clicking on the color wheel.
Now let's open the basic panel back up
and see what this image looks like
with these color tones applied to the color image.
So I'll reset this back to color.
We can see how it has this toning effect applied.
If I come down here to the color grading panel,
I can click on the light switch
to turn off the color grading,
to see what the natural colors of the image look like.
And if I turn this back on,
we can see what the color toning effect does to the image.
I recommend experimenting with a color grading panel.
I think you'll have a lot of fun with it.
Try mixing and matching colors
to see what kind of stylized look you can create.