Cinematic COLOR GRADING with Photoshop (Raw included)

Learn how to add cinematic Color Grading to your photos using #Adobe #Photoshop in the Photoshop Tutorial.

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0:00 Intro
For this shot I had a very warm style in mind with rather low contrast. But also, besides the colors, I wanted to fix the ugly lens flare on the right side for which I used a second image with no lens flare and blended both together using a layer mask. To recover all the needed details in the shadows and the highlights, this is actually an HDR shot.

0:23 1. Basic Raw Adjustments
I changed the profile to Adobe Standard for a flat image. Then, I pushed the exposure until I got enough details in the dark areas. I further pushed the shadows for more details and slightly increased the dehaze to add back some contrast. Finally, I increased the vibrance for more saturation

1:40 2. Local Adjustments
I started with a sky selection and brought down the exposure, the highlights and raised the contrast to reduce overexposure while keeping the sky interesting. For the colors, I chose to drop the temperature and the tint. This way I got some more blue tones and reduced magenta color cast in the sky. Using a linear gradient, I made the darker clouds at the very top even darker by dropping the exposure and adding more contrast.

For the foreground I used another sky selection and inverted the mask. Here, I dropped the temperature and the saturation to make the field a little less vibrant. Another linear gradient was used on the very near foreground to bring down the exposure slightly.

5:20 3. Color Adjustments
I started in the saturation tab by bringing down the blue, purple and magenta saturation just to fix any further color cast I might have missed. Then, I increased the orange luminance making the field a little brighter.
For the split toning I used a warm yellow / orange tone for the highlights and the mid tones. For the highlights I raised the saturation all the way up to get a intense sunset look. For the shadows, I used a blue tone with lower saturation.

8:19 4. Photoshop
I started by removing the lens flare with the second photo and a layer mask (just carefully brushing out the lens flare here). Then, I cleaned up the shot of sensor spots and some bushes. A very big change were the leading lines in the foreground: I adjusted them with the distort transformation to make them point towards the tree instead of going right of the tree as in the original shot.