Hi! I have a little request. Can you help me find a tutorial/tips for this? Every time I try to make gifs from concert videos, I get stuck on coloring.😿 It shines too much and looks white and lifeless. I've been trying to do it for minutes but this is the result, it's too bad.
Hi darling! I'd be more than happy to give color and lighting correcting tips. I'll use your photo as an example first, and then show how I'd go about it in a gif example.
STAGE COLORING+LIGHTING CORRECTION AND UN-WHITEWASHING TUTORIAL
We're going to talk about Camera Raw Filter for this, as it's the best PS tool IMO. You can find it under Filter>Camera Raw Filter
It's the only way to autocorrect coloring on gifs, whereas with static images you can use the Image>Auto Tone+Auto Contract+Auto Color options.
But I still prefer Camera Raw Filter on static images. So without further ado, lets jump in.
Open Camera Raw Filter (I'm going to refer to it as CRF moving forward). You will see the control panel, which has an Auto button, as well as the Basic category, which contains the White Balance dropdown selection.
2) Click the Auto button to correct the overall lighting
3) Before you adjust the sliders to get the exact lighting you may want (Photoshop is just guessing after all, you'll always need to modify the results to your preferences) make sure you click the White Balance dropdown and select Auto
Now you can adjust the sliders or mess with any of the other CRF control categories.
My personal favorite is Color Mixer, which allows full control over Saturation, Luminance, and Hue. Why is that any different from a Saturation adjustment layer? Well, what CRF can do that regular adjustment layers can't is target the color ORANGE.
Many times we editors want vibrant colors and to bring melanin back to whitewashed idols skin, but we don't want them to look like they have a spray tan!
Take this unedited Mamamoo gif for example
They're pretty whitewashed here due to stage lights, so I automatically darken the gif, and then add some vibrancy to bring back skin color. But adding saturation turns their skin orange:
Now I understand why many people would consider this un-whitewashing, but people are not naturally neon orange.
To fix this, we move on to the optional 4th step.
4) Desaturate the oranges in the Color Mixer section of the CRF control panel (just do this while you're adjusting the lighting and color balance so it's out of the way before you start adding PSDs and adjustment layers)
Here is the gif now with the oranges desaturated.
Feel free to disagree, but I think that looks MUCH more natural while still keeping all the vibrancy.
Hope this helped darling!
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