Cinematic Color Grading for Adobe Lightroom focuses and highlights Justin Lister's Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom workflow in creating his composites, fine art, and editorial portrait style shoots. Justin's workflow with Lightroom color grading enables users to quickly build color grades using LUTS, Presets, and his retouching workflow for his photography.
Justin starts putting all the tools he has been discussing to work by diving into some full edits. He starts and finishes all images in Lightroom, only bringing them into Photoshop for minor clean up issues. Here we walk through the story of the Cordney in Studio image, learning about how it was ...
Justin walks through the RAW processing and the cleanup of his image of Cordney in studio.
With the RAW processing and necessary clean-up done on this image, it is time to jump into applying color. Justin shows you his various techniques for getting tons of different examples of a single image and goes through his methods of picking a winning shot.
For the 2nd image in the portraiture section of this tutorial, we explore Justin's image of Cowgirl in a Motel. Developing a retouching plan and hearing an overview of how this image was shot.
The processing of the Cowgirl in Motel shot in the studio continues with processing the RAW image and doing the cleanup of blemishes.
The Cowgirl in Motel image comes to completion with the color grading of the image.
For our third portraiture image, Justin walks us through his image of the SGT Pepper Girl, starting with a shoot overview and retouching plan.
We continue the walkthrough of the SGT Pepper Girl with the image's processing and cleanup.
Finishing the SGT Pepper Girl with color grading using virtual copies to finalize the look we want.
The fourth shot in the portraiture section of this tutorial starts with the overview and retouching plan for Goth Girl.
With the retouching plan in place, we start doing the RAW processing and cleanup on Goth Girl.
With the first steps all completed now we jump into the colorwork of Goth Girl. Again using virtual copies to help demonstrate the various ways an image could go.
For the last image in this section, Justin challenges himself to stay in Lightroom and to only use black and white while still coming up with multiple variations of the image.