Airi Pan 34.17 Foolproof Photobashing

 34 Lesson 6 - Foolproof Photobashing Part 2 - Film Color PT1

P34 - 00:01影视风格。  

 Welcome back. Wow! You must have grown taller than the last time I saw you. Right now clearly our piece has something, has atmosphere, has some depth, but there's a lot of soul missing from this piece. This piece is most definitely not finished yet.  

P34 - 00:22有氛围有景深少神韵。 

One of the biggest pieces of that soul that is missing is the fact that it doesn't have much of a color. 

P34 - 00:29缺失颜色。  

It's kind of just grey and white and really boring. 

P34 - 00:34灰白色的单调乏味。 

So remember, this piece is meant to emulate a live action concept art piece. 

P34 - 00:41模拟真人影视作品。 

Therefore, the example that we should try to strive for, is going to be live action. 

P34 - 00:47无限接近真人影视场景效果。 

So my color preference, rather than going into a real life and to find some average color reference, I'm actually going to go into movies and look at references from movies. 

P34 - 00:58从影视中找参考。 

So this is a shot from the movie called the assassination Of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. long name.  You can see that there is a very movie like quality about this picture. 

P34 - 01:12影视质量的剧照。 

This is because of movies. When they do post production, they put a filter over their movies. 

P34 - 01:19影视后期做了滤镜处理。 

So taking a look at this snowy day in the movie, now we take a look at another snowy day. 

P34 - 01:26看影视中的雪景。 

This is what a real life snowy day should actually look like.  

P34 - 01:30影视和真实世界的雪景对比。 

You can see that there's a very big difference. So movies use filters to make them feel either like moodier heavier, just whatever kind of feeling they want to convey. 

P34 - 01:42影视传递压抑的情绪等主题。 

This is the reason why when you're watching something like, I don't know, batman, like versus superman, man of steel, like DC movies, why those feels so dark and heavy, 

P34 - 01:53钢铁侠蜘蛛侠蝙蝠侠沉重的氛围。 

because they're basically instant gram filtered to be edging and moody and kind of like a nasty teenager. But it works. It works really well. 

P34 - 02:02场景气氛传递非常奏效。 

So we need to really capture that feeling. So rather than using this reference image which would get me a very cheerful house, I'm going to go for the movie, the assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford. Kind of a nasty feeling. I want this feeling, not this. So we are going to banish this by deleting it. It's gone.  

P34 - 02:22不要日常欢庆雪要影视氛围雪景。 

What I really like though about this screen shot in particular even though the movie the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, that is a really long movie name. We're just going to call it the assassination of Jesse James. Or I don't know Jesse James movie for sure that I don't want to say that every single time I have to explain this movie.  

P34 - 02:44简称影视，不每次提全称了。 

But the reason why I chose this particular screen shot is because it actually includes a little village. It has snow, it has mountains and trees in the background. So it is the ideal image. This is not the exact look that we're trying to go for.  

P34 - 03:00因为这是乡下有雪有山影视剧照。 

However, it is a fantastic base to start off with. The movie also has other screen shots. So here's another very viable piece that also give me more Information on how I should be coloring all of my pieces. 

P34 - 03:16同影视另一剧照给参考如何上色。 

So we're just all gonna keep this for good reference stick. In fact, what i'd like to do is try to keep it at the very Top, put them into a group, called references. 

P34 - 03:26参考图层放在最上方，名为参考。 

The first thing that I'm going to do is I ask myself, what color overall are these references that I'm trying to base my own piece off of? 

P34 - 03:37问自己主打色彩是什么？ 

Hopefully you say that they're colored a little bit green and the colors a little bit towards like dark grey kind of feeling. If so, you are correct. Fantastic. Have a cookie. 

P34 - 03:51希望你回答是灰蒙蒙色调的。 

The first thing I'm gonna do for myself is I'm just going to go in color pick and find out that yes, it is exactly in the dark gray area right here. 

P34 - 03:59拾色器吸取灰蒙蒙色调。 

First thing I'm gonna do is cross my piece just so that I get rid of all the extra baggage. 

P34 - 04:02三分网格剔除掉多余的。  

And this way, it will also make my piece a little bit lighter. So photoshop doesn't have to choke on every single new layer that I add on to it. 

P34 - 04:14减负持续增加新图层。 

Once you start photographing some really big pieces, if your photoshop is not very strong, or if your computer isn't very strong, then it will definitely start chugging. And it will definitely start wheezing, my old computer would rise 24/7. I had to get a completely new one, just because of it. Because photoshop is such a RAM heavy program. 

P34 - 04:39对计算机内存要求高。 

So I here place my two references. Now I know exactly what I'm going for. This looks really familiar to our cinema demo, right? I'm telling you, man, every thing layers on Top of each other. The lessons that we learned, the first like three videos will be the main lessons that will literally repeat themselves over the course, because that is the secret to foolproof concept painting.  

P34 - 05:05两个参考图并排展示似立体屏幕。 

Get the basic idea down and you can repeat it over and over. see, it is more and more like the recipe for a pizza. anyways. So taking my color picker, color picking it and I'm just gonna ever so quickly get rid of my darks. So here we are. 

P34 - 05:22吸取灰蒙蒙替代黑色。 

Now I just have my light and don't forget we have a lighten layer on Top of our lights and I'm just going to put it onto a clipping mask super quickly, so that it doesn't affect the dark background.  

P34 - 05:33剪切蒙版保护黑色背景免受影响。 

So I have my lights and what I'm going to do now, is add a new layer above my lights right here, set it to multiply. 

P34 - 05:44新图层，设置多重。 

And we're going to do the exact same thing that the movies have done to their pieces. 

P34 - 05:47模拟影视对自己图层的处理。 

Placing a color filter. We take our bucket tool like this. 

P34 - 05:52颜色过滤用油漆桶处理。 

We put on a filter already almost instantly. It gets us so much closer to the color of this screen shot right here. But obviously it's not perfect. Ours took us a little bit too dark. 

P34 - 06:10我们滤镜比影视的暗很多。 

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go here, cut out a little piece just for ourselves. Drag it down and just see how we can adjust our color. 

P34 - 06:22从影视剧照取样拖拽来进行调整。 

So it can be a little bit more similar to that. Got a piece brightness changed by multiply layer just a tad brighter. 

P34 - 06:30多重模式，增强亮度。 

That means I'm in the right place, turn it back into color.  

P34 - 06:32切换回到彩色。 

Now I suddenly color balance, adjust it, and you don't need to worry about, it being too close to the movie, 

P34 - 06:42颜色平衡调整。 

because at the very end of the day, you are still going to adjust it for your own taste. So right now we're just trying to get as close to the movie as possible to emulate that film Look. and once we've got there, then we'll be able to take photoshop adjustments and make our own adjustments to make it feel, how we want it to feel, different from the movie for sure. All right. 

P34 - 07:03模拟后加个调节图层改自己风格。 

And now my color of snow. So the overall color is pretty much exactly the same as this movie screen shot here. 

P34 - 07:13雪颜色类似影视剧照的。 

So I'm just going to cut out this piece. I don't need this piece anymore. 

P34 - 07:16去除掉原来影视样本。 

And when I turn on my darks, you can see that this is looking pretty solid. already. I didn't even do that much at all To be quite honest already. It's starting to feel as if it's a movie like, but now we need to take it to obviously the next few steps.  

P34 - 07:32开始下面的步骤。 

This is not something that we can turn in just yet. I'm gonna look at this screen shot here. I'm going to ask myself about the shadow.  

P34 - 07:40这里剧照的阴影。 

And you'll notice that there are very few shadows actually, in this screen shot. 

P34 - 07:45剧照中阴影很少。 

So I have to kind of make do and figure it out myself. First of all, I see the foreground here is very dark colored. 

P34 - 07:54前景部分很暗。  

And it's kind of this shade. So I'm just going to take it and check it out. It isn't this kind of color, which means that a good rule of thumb, is that my rocks and my foreground should also be similar to this kind of color.  

P34 - 08:08取样，我的前景也模拟取样色。 

So with my darks, I'm gonna do something a little bit different from my lights. I'm gonna go inside my dark, because you see the reason is because where my darks actually lie. All depend on my layer clipping mask.  

P34 - 08:23我的阴影色取决于剪切蒙版。 

So everything that I have in my dark needs to be underneath this clipping mask. 

P34 - 08:27所以阴影层操作，在剪切蒙版下。 

So I go to my levels, and I'm just going to make it ever so slightly less dark. 

P34 - 08:34调取层级减轻图层的暗色。 

Because when we add on that multiply layer is going to make everything darker. 

P34 - 08:38因为多重层模式让一切更暗。 

So we want to make sure that we adjust for that. I go above it. Actually i’m going to go right below it. So right below, change it to multiply and using the same color that I did to color the overall snow. 

P34 - 08:53下移图层，多重层，用给雪的色。  

because there I'm assuming they used probably the same exact filter, soon drop of color. 

P34 - 08:59还是同样的滤镜，改颜色。 

You will notice immediately that the hue of the snow has shifted.  

P34 - 09:04雪的色相饱和度变了。 

So let me turn this on. You see, it shifted a lot closer to my color swatch. 

P34 - 09:10颜色变得接近我的样本色卡。 

So with this off, the snow is too warm. with this on, the snow is just right. 

P34 - 09:17关闭了雪太暖了，打开了雪刚好。 

This is exactly what I'm trying to get. So I don't need this anymore. I'm going to get rid of this. loop. It is gone, it has been banished.  

P34 - 09:25样品色卡可以删掉了。 

The next thing I'm going to look at is this sky specifically. 

P34 - 09:30接下来看天空。  

Now I don't want the sky from this image. It's way too cloudy. I want the sky from this screen shot. And the only place that we can see the sky is in this tiny little section right there. 

P34 - 09:42太厚重云层改成少许的云层。 

But that's enough for me to be able to steal a little swatch. So drag it out. So I realized that the sky is a warmer color than everything else, 

P34 - 09:53取样，天空比其它色泽偏暖色。 

Which means if I go to my sky, so I go to my lights, underneath here. And I can see my sky right there. 

P34 - 10:04光文件夹下面的天空图层来调节。 

I can adjust my sky easily. Brightness, brightness, brightness, just like that. 

P34 - 10:10亮度调节调亮。  

i do my color balance, Now my sky is looking good. 

P34 - 10:21做颜色平衡调节后， 

A little bit better. Not perfect, not yet. But it's looking a little better. I'm starting to feel really good about this piece. I don't know about you.  So now that overall our colors have been fixated, we're going to go in and do some specific touch UPS. 

P34 - 10:36颜色修复后，下一步，  

And I'm gonna show you exactly what I mean. The first thing is my mountains still aren't the color that I want them to be. 

P34 - 10:42大山颜色还不理想。 

This is the part where we have to go in and paint on Top. 

P34 - 10:47进入图层，直接绘制上去。 

I'm going to do a new layer, right here above everything else, and I'm going to set it to lighten. 

P34 - 10:51新图层，上面序列，模式点亮。  

And now if you remember, the entire point of the lighten layer is to make things lighter.  

P34 - 10:55目标让图层变亮。 

It can't make things darker. It can only make things lighter. I'm going to go into these mountains and I'm going to color pick out some of there's snow and just lightly brush on Top. 

P34 - 11:08取雪地颜色，给山图亮色。 

And you can see that immediately. It gives me this atmospheric look to it.  

P34 - 11:12氛围感拉满。  

Now, first of all, you'll notice that, oh, no, I am starting to draw off the page, going into the black, right here. That's not good. So I'm going to put all of these together into one group. call the group little red, So this is my actual image, as you can see, is hiding my beautiful sketch. My actual image, here is my lighten layer, do a simple clipping masks.  

P34 - 11:36重新分成四组。 

And now whatever I draw lighten and we won't be able to go above it. Perfect. 

P34 - 11:42再次绘制增亮图层不会干扰样本。 

So I'm gonna go and I'm gonna lightly brush these mountains and don't worry about going really light on these, 

P34 - 11:47不用担心刷子抹亮群山。 

because they're supposed to be really atmospheric. They're supposed to feel far away. 

P34 - 11:53就是要群山在很远处的氛围感。 

So brushing this in, and making those things lighter, is not going to ruin your piece. 

P34 - 11:59所以远山越亮，不会毁掉作品。 

Trust me, it's the only way to make your piece better. I like to add a little bit of extra atmosphere by having one sided feel like it's a little bit lighter on the other side. So it gives this effect of cascading mountains. 

P34 - 12:12一边暗一边亮，层峦叠嶂的群山。 

Now I'm gonna do the same thing with these mountains here. But you'll notice one thing is that well, my house and everything else is in the way. I don't wanna touch. Because if I paint here, then it's gonna paint my house. And that's not good.  

P34 - 12:30同样画法，不能一下山一下房屋。 

But do not worry. for I have a brilliant plan. You're gonna go into your layers. So here. you’re gonna go find your house. So here's my house. You're gonna select all the components of your house by control selecting and then shift, selecting everything else that belongs to your house.  

P34 - 12:47快捷键，选图层，归属房子组。 

So I got my two trees. And then I'm gonna grab this little border right here at the back trees. Now you have selected this area out. What are you going to do next quickly get this little slice into, CTRL shift I. now it has completely inverted your selection. 

P34 - 13:10快捷键反转你刚刚选择的。  

So you will now only draw in the opposite of what you selected, which means I can now attack the mountains in the back, without having to worry about my house at all. That is so convenient. 

P34 - 13:23这样涂抹山，不会影响房屋。 

So I'm just gonna go in and make these mountains a lot lighter. 

P34 - 13:32这样可以大胆把山涂抹亮。 

Now my mountains really fade into the back. There are some really nice mist going on. 

P34 - 13:42山被雾蒙蒙缭绕。 

Yeah. Looks like the snow is almost kind of just drifting off. I love that kind of feeling. Now i'll notice that the back of my trees, these back trees here, they are too dark. So I'm gonna go to my back trees. I’m gonna select them. 

P34 - 13:55解决树太暗的问题。 

And you can see that it's a really large portion as well. But that's okay. I'll just be really careful going to deselect my tree one, tree two. My houses. so now it is a much more clean cut. I won't be able to worry about touching anything else. 

P34 - 14:12选择树木，操作不影响毗邻物体。 

Go back to my lighten layer, all the way to purify his name lighten and I'm gonna color it lighter. 

P34 - 14:17来到增量调节图层。 

And for anyone that's interested, I'm only using the soft brown pressure opacity brush. 

P34 - 14:25只用软棕压不透明刷。 

I'm not really using anything else because this is a photo realistic stuff. And they, if you put a brush texture, does not usually feel real in my experience.  

P34 - 14:36其它刷子给不了真人影视感觉。  

So I just stick with hard round brushes. you can see that these trees don't really fall into line. 

P34 - 14:44树木并没有完全融入线条。 

So I'm just gonna use a lighten brush to gently blend them in, almost as if imagine you're doing your eye shadow makeup and your blending out your eye shadow. 

P34 - 14:53像是眼影润染模糊边界。 

The right side is looking Ok. But the left side is still looking way too dark. 

P34 - 15:06右侧可以，左侧看起来还是很暗。 

All right, sweet. Now the back is feeling much better. So I basically do this on layer on layer on layer, starting from the very back and going to the front. 

P34 - 15:21从背景到前景一层层的做。 

Because now you'll see that these rocks right here, they're a little bit too dark. 

P34 - 15:27这岩石非常暗。 

So if I turn this into black and white, you can see that the value of these rocks are the same value as a rocks down here, which is not a good thing because we want these to feel like they are further back. 

P34 - 15:40背景和前景的岩石不可一个深浅。 

And to make things feel like they are further back. We have to make them lighter. 

P34 - 15:44远处的亮一些。 

Therefore I'm gonna go with my lighten layer and to several portions of this piece actually. 

P34 - 15:51增量调节图层用给待处理部分。  

And I'm just going to make things lighter, so that I can push the stuff in the back that's back and bring this up to the front at the front.