How to make your PHOTOS look CINEMATIC FAST using LUTS in Photoshop!

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- What's up everybody,
Peter McKinnon here,

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and today we're talking about how

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to make your photos look
cinematic fast, using less.

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It's pretty easy, and it's
pretty fast, so, let's go.

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(rock music)

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Okay, what is going on?

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Happy Sunday.

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I was gonna go outside
and do a tutorial today,

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but it's just raining and gloomy, bleh,

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nope so staying indoors.

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Now I released my LUT pack

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which are essentially seven presets

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to color grade your footage
within Premiere Pro,

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Final Cut Pro, DaVinci,
whatever it is that you use.

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You guys seems to really really love them

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but the question I got asked all the time,

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so many emails and direct
messages, DM's and tweets was,

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"do these work in Lightroom or Photoshop?

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"Can I use these with my photos?"

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'Cause the general consensus,
what most people just assume

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are presets and actions
would be classified

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as the photo side of things

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and LUT's would be the video
side of the color correction.

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So the answer is yes you can
use LUT's within Photoshop

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so if you already purchased the LUT pack

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then you are good to go,
just follow this tutorial

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and you can use those same seven looks

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to edit any photos that you want

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and I'm gonna show you how to do that.

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If you haven't the link is below,

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you guys can check those
out, you can use them

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for both your photos and video,
it speeds up your workflow.

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It's the color correction
and editing that I use a lot

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on my videos and photos on
Instagram or here on the channel

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so link is below, once
you've downloaded those

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I'm gonna show you how to
install them into you computer,

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How we can use them in
Photoshop to get a quick edit

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to make something look so much better

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and really really cinematic.

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So without further ado
let's just get started,

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check this out, alright alright alright.

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Okay so check this out.

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Once you have downloaded your LUT pack

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or if you have already downloaded it

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you should have a folder here called

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Peter McKinnon LUTS Cine Pack One.

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Inside are seven cube
files that you would use

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within Premiere or DaVinci

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or whatever video editing
software that you have.

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So if we want to use these for photos,

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which we do because that's why you're here

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and why you're watching.

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So from the desktop you can hit
Shift + Command + A on a Mac

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and that will open up
your Applications folder.

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Now inside that you can
double click on Photoshop 2017

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if you are using the Creative Cloud

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and within there you're gonna hit presets

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and then you're gonna hit 3DLUTS.

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Now within this folder

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is where you're gonna open up the LUT pack

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that you downloaded from
the link in the description.

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You're gonna Command + A
to select all of those.

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Hold down Alt so it's making
a copy and then just drag over

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to the 3DLUTS file, drop them in

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and then you can clean that up

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by Control clicking arrange by name,

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and that's essentially it,

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all of those seven LUT's are now installed

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into the Photoshop presets folder

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so when we access them within Photoshop

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you have basically seven new presets

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to color correct your
photos at any given time.

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So check this out, let's launch Photoshop.

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Okay so let's start with one
of the photos I took recently

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in the Italian Alps of this
cow, this yak dude or whatever,

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Chewbacca's cousin essentially. (laughing)

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So first thing's when
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it's going to open the
camera RAW by default

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and in there you can
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the whites, the blacks, whatever,

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you can pump the clarity,

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do whatever edits you want ahead of time

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before that file actually
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but for the sake of this tutorial

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we're just gonna pretty
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it's exposed pretty even

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so we're just going to
open the image like so.

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So now that we are here,
we are in Photoshop,

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you want to make sure
that over on this side

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Adjustments is selected,

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if you don't have the
Adjustments tab there

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you can go over to Window

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and you can come down to Adjustments,

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make sure that's clicked

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and then it will pop up on the right side.

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You're gonna click on the
one that looks like a grid

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that says Color Lookup,
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it's going to open this
little window inside

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that says 3DLUT File.

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It says Load 3D LUT, so
you're going to click on that,

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and because we already
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into the folder a few seconds ago

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they should all appear
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but they're all within this list,

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so if we want to apply
Kodak Killer to this photo

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we're just gonna click on
that and boom there it is,

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pretty much good to go already.

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It's a little bit too yellow,

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but it makes an extra layer for you

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so you can just come
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right in Layers panel

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and just adjust the intensity of that LUT.

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So maybe we like it
around, 70% looks good.

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Just like that and already
from hiding that to now,

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that looks a lot better.

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So you could be done at
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everything is all and well.

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If you want to add and tweak the photo

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just a little bit more,
maybe add some contrast,

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sharpen it up a little bit,

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kind of like what we talked about

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in How to Make Your
Photos Look Better Fast.

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I'll give you the super
fast version of that.

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You want to hit Command + J
with the background selected

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which makes a new layer.

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From that point come over to Filter, Blur,

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run a Gaussian Blur on it.

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I have it preset to
five and just hit okay.

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Now that makes the image
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but what it does is if you
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to Soft Light it kind of brings in

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a lot of punchiness to that,

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really really just exaggerates
everything essentially,

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but you want to take
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'cause it's just a little too much.

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From that point hit Shift
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that stamps a new visible layer

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and what we're gonna do with
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so hit Shift + Command +
U, that desaturates it.

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We're going to go back
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and select Overlay, now
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disgusting, contrasty mess, not to worry,

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we click on Filter, Other,
High Pass and what that does

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is applies the sharpening
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and the dark areas of the photo.

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I have it preset at 10, you
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You can bring that opacity down

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just to adjust it a little bit as well

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as maybe the background copy,
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just so it's not super overwhelming.

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So that's before when the
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after we've tweaked the highlights

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and the clarity a little bit

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and then once we've run our
LUT and a couple quick edits

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boom that's what we have,

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and then if you want you can
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you can flatten that entire
image, then Command + Shift,

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save that to the desktop as a version two,

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and we'll hit Save.

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Let's grab another photo,
let's open up this one,

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which is actually my desktop background,

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so that's the shot
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I always just kind of protect
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I'm fine with that,
let's just hit Open Image

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which opens it up into Photoshop.

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Make sure you're over here,
on your Adjustments layer

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you can click that little
grid there Color Lookup.

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Select that, Load 3D LUT.

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Now different LUT's and different presets

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are gonna look better
with different photos.

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That picture of the cow or yak
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(laughing) that looked really
good with some warm tones

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so I know Kodak Killer, which
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would really really
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so for this obviously
Arctic Circle, Fade Out

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or maybe Black Eye would be good,

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but we can test them all out.

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We can hit Black Eye,

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which is really gonna make
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You could save the photo right there,

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that's a little warm for me

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so I might drop the opacity a little bit.

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Maybe to like 60%.

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Now we can see by hiding that layer

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and un-hiding it the
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without really having to
do anything in Photoshop.

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So if you've never even used Photoshop

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you can still edit your photos within it

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without having to do
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So let's drop the opacity on this to zero

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and slowly introduce it

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just so we get it to a
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before it starts to
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So I think probably
around 50% for me is good.

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We zoom that in a little bit,

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that's with it, that's without it.

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It's just enough punch in the sky.

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If you want to effect the
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and just the different
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of this image further beyond
what you've already done

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with the LUT by adding the preset

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come over to Image, hit
Adjustments and hit Curves.

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Now this curve line
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the midtones, and the highlights

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so by adding new points to this curve

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and dragging the curve
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we can effect how it's going to look

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very very drastically just like so.

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So for example if we drag
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we're getting rid of all the
blacks, it's washing it out.

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So what we want to do is maybe
drag that up a little bit

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to relax those blacks because
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on the left side of this mountain here,

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but then a little further up the curve,

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closer to where the midtones start

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I'm just gonna drag it
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I'm gonna bring those
midtones down a little bit

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just so that the snow isn't blowing out

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and then I'm going to go back
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and just move that curve
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so we have something that
looks a little bit like this.

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Now I'm happy with that.

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You can preview what you've done

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by clicking this check here,

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preview on and off, so that's
without it, that's with it.

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I've just added a little more drama,

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a little more dramatic feel to the photo

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by punching up those
blacks a little bit more

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and I'm happy with that.

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You can still come back
in to the LUT at any time

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and adjust that opacity to
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a little less dark, but I
think still around 50, 55%

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is what looks good to me.

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So that is after, that's before, after.

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So I just wanted to throw
that out there for you guys

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since I've been asked
so many times this week

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if these LUT's work with
editing your photos?

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So the answer is yes.

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Again thank you guys so
much for all your support.

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I've seen some of the shots
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that you guys have been
tagging me and using them.

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Your stuff looks great,
keep it up, keep going,

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and the best part about these

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is just the experimental process.

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It's so much fun to open different images

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and run different presets on them

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because they're gonna get
completely different looks.

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Some of these LUT's look
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and some of them it's just meant for it.

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You load that preset,

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you're like oh my goodness
this looks so good,

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you're super excited, you don't even,

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you step away for a second
you're like, (gasping) yes.

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So maybe you can take what
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How to Make Your Photos Look Better Fast,

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combine them with the How to
Make Your Photos Look Cinematic

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using LUT's in Photoshop,
kind of tweak those two skills

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and now you've got a really
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photo editing process,

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so it's not going to take you too long,

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but it's going to take your
images from here to here.

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So like this video if you
got something out of it.

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Hit that thumbs up button,
boom, smash it as they,

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no don't smash it, just
click it, you don't have to,

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you don't even have to click it, whatever.

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Subscribe if you aren't already

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and I will see you guys in the next video.

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I just realized I'm not wearing a hat,

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what do I do now?

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We'll just use the hand.

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Check this out you guys,

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in order to have my computer

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nice and clean on top of that desk

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I had to move my iMac to the floor.

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It's all about that perception people,

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and behind me this nice and tidy room

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that you guys like to see,
such a mess, oh such a mess.

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