HANNAH MONTANA
4.09, “I’ll Always Remember You”
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Do you have any tips on colouring outside scenes that seem to go very very white/bright with just a simple curves layer?
you mean an outside scene that gets very bright by using a curves layer? or coloring a very bright outside scene with just a curves layer?
it depends on the scene and what your end result to be, but personally with a very bright scene i probably wouldn't touch the curves layer much actually. i prefer color balancing the red, green, and blue colors with the color balance or channel mixer layers. generally with very bright scenes you gotta go slow and easy handed on the coloring and also not too much brightess/contrat.
though you may need to bring down the brightness of the gif before the other coloring steps. a quick thing you can try is this: use a black color fill layer set to the blending mode "soft light" to quickly reduce a scene's brightness. you can play with this layer's opacity and layer mask as needed.
if that doesn't really work (for example if it's not precise enough), you can always do something like this with a curves layer:
on that curves layer, the dark values are more on the left side of the quadrant, and the light values are on the right. so you'd wanna lower the curves more on the right side if you want to bring down the brightness. you can create points on the curves by clicking on it, so you can limit where the curve goes down (you can also remove them).
another tip if you want to make bright highlights less white and bright, you can use a selective color layer in the whites tab, with the black slider. it's particulatly good to reduce the very bright highlights on skintones, but don't go overboard cause it can make skintones look washed out if you push it too far.
a levels layer can also help, especially these two sliders: the grey slider which will darken or brighten the "middle" values (so reduce the overall brightness without affecting the very high or low values), and the bottom white slider, which will make the overall bright values less bright.
i'm sorry if that's not really what you meant haha, but that's all i could think of 😅
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I saw Bradley and Max Branning on your father and son list. May I add Ben and Phil Mitchell from Eastenders as well?
Hi I just saw your message so sorry never got a notification! Of course just added it for you!
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