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Colour Grading Brief

The document provides instructions for manually color grading images and videos in Photoshop and Premiere. It recommends using the highlights, shadows, blacks, and whites sliders to brighten images shot with the same lighting. For JPEGs and PNGs, an S-curve in the curve tool can similarly alter highlights and shadows. The same color grading techniques can be applied in Premiere using the Lumetri color effect.

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Colour Grading Brief

The document provides instructions for manually color grading images and videos in Photoshop and Premiere. It recommends using the highlights, shadows, blacks, and whites sliders to brighten images shot with the same lighting. For JPEGs and PNGs, an S-curve in the curve tool can similarly alter highlights and shadows. The same color grading techniques can be applied in Premiere using the Lumetri color effect.

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1. Drag image into photoshop.

Click “auto” and see results, sometimes it’s alright but it’s hit or
miss. We’ll do this example manually so you can see what the end result should look like.

Before After

As the headshots were shot in the same area with the same lighting, you should (in theory) be able
to just copy these settings.

If you find yourself having to grade an image manually, still copy these settings, but mainly try to
tweak “highlights” “shadows” “blacks” and “whites.” The goal is to brighten the overall image,
without removing the detail.
Note: you can also adjust “exposure” but unless the actual image is under exposed, I’d advise against
it. Doing so might remove detail, as opposed to using the other settings, listed above.

The above grading works for the RW2 images. However for jpgs/pngs, go image -> adjustments, here
are the colour grading options.

Useful note for Jpg/pngs: use the curve tool to make an “S-curve”

Before After (example, don’t copy values directly)

A subtle S-curve will alter the highlights and shadows like our settings in step 1.

For the interviews, I use the same colour grading techniques in Adobe Premiere. The only thing to
note is when you finish editing the videos and are ready to grade, add the “lumetri color” effect, use
the “basic” drop down menu, and use the logic above. If you would like to create an S-curve like we
did in photoshop, it also has the “curve” drop down menu.

Before After

- All office photography should utilise a neutral colour grade.


- The main focus is to make the overall image brighter and the colours pop.

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