LEARN A WORKFLOW FOR ANY GENRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Have you ever looked at a polished image and wondered how the retoucher achieved that color grade? In this color grading tutorial Sef McCullough reverse engineers images and shows how to recreate a specific grade. Learn to match colors and create a harmony between all of your images to create a similar grade using his commercial retouching methods used at the highest level of commercial retouching.

TAKE WHAT’S IN YOUR HEAD AND EXTRACT FROM YOUR RAW IMAGES

Sef uses native Photoshop tools for isolating color from luminosity, Adobe color themes, Adobe RAW, and an entire suite of products to teach you to produce the perfect color grade. There are several approaches to color grading, but unfortunately, too many of the techniques used by photographers and retouchers are destructive and deteriorate the image quality.

Throughout this color grading tutorial Sef goes over non-destructive methods to color grade for commercial imagery, provides insight on color theory, and helps expand your creativity when working on an image. Sef approaches his work by first analyzing the colors that are actually in the image, and not just the ones we perceive with our eyes.