Color Grading Simple in Photoshop

Bilkish Nipa
3 min readMay 2, 2021

Hey. i am Bilkish nipa from Image pixelator. to day I explain Color Grading Simple in Photoshop. We can separate the colors and create a cinematic effect like this from that image itself to Color Grading one image. Most importantly, this is a simple workflow.

Are you a beginner in Photoshop?

Also, you can quickly achieve what magic is creating from this effect. Let’s see.

So I have one image right now with me usually. So if we need to do color grading means color balance or color correction.

The first one is yellow. Now I’m increasing the yellow, and you can see changes in the image, so whenever I’m satisfied, I can stop it.

So whenever you use the slide, don’t look at the value. Just look at the image.

So what changes happened in the image? Just see to that and adjust the slider. Otherwise, u will get confused, I think this is ok, so this is ok.

Because these two photos were taken in the same location, we can drag and drop the colors from one to the other, allowing us to Color Grading wherever we need to.

Both are in the same tone, and you can confirm it by looking at the black when you see the black area, same black area, white and blue combo.

It was the same, So if you need even more changes, you need to change the opacity and make adjustments to achieve it slightly, So another image for this image can also be dragged and dropped.

But we need to change the blue Color Grading somewhat in this image.

That means, in this image, we already have green here, so if we make a small change in that green, I think we will get a slight difference just by double-clicking.

But, we are changing it, so for this green, blend mode is keeping e you can also see that, so, we can change this image to the tail yellow Color Grading.

We should be able to increase the saturation hit slightly. I’m satisfied this time after changing the blend mode to hard light and slightly adjusting the opacity, so here’s the before and after. So another image, solid color adjustment layer.

So I just took that coat blue and increased the intensity of blue, so just a solid color adjustment layer. So I’m creating subtract mode and hiding it slightly.

Adjusting opacity from zero, just increasing the ambiguity in this place am satisfied, so I’m leaving it here. So this is before and after, now if we want to make it more interesting.

So another example is a wedding ritual. Bride shot, So if we need to add contrast to the image, select any part of the skin tone.

So this part is OK, so select that and go to a solid color adjustment layer, just hit OK, and then we will hard mix here.

So when we give a challenging mix here, the intensity of the color will be more if you decrease the opacity of the So this is before and after just by providing a complex blend.

See how we have got the color pop-ups. See how all the colors have got some extra intense. We have contrast one color pop has reached for the image.

So this is before and after, so that’s it guys, all these images have worked with solid color adjustment alone, mainly, curve adjustment layer, color balance selective Color Grading like this. Be creative and productive.

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Bilkish Nipa

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