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FINAL ADJUSTMENTS

CORRECT THE COLOURS AND VAMP UP THE VIBRANCY

QUICK TIP

You can always use the grading technique to direct the eyes and follow the light source in your scene.

Remember to always do a nice mask with the edges blurred so you have a more natural effect.

DETAILS

It’s always nice to add as much detail as you can in

a scene like this. Try to follow reality and

remember you can always create your assets

with textures and scratches. This way you can

have a rich scene with a lot of cool visual tricks

inside, and make the audience look and see your

scene in a different way every time.

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For this part, you will do the same as you

did with the other player, taking extra care to note

that the light is different on him. Repeat the process

you used on the first player with the central player

in Shutterstock 149820047. Make it darker and with

a blue colour on the shaded areas and a warmer

colour on the light areas. Add more details using a

black brush in Soft Light. Once you’ve finished the

retouching, duplicate the layer and apply the same

Path Blur you used before to match the scene.

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Slowly increase the orange near the clouds

in the sky. Use the same orange that you used

before, set on 32% and mask to put orange only in

the right areas. Then create a Color Balance

adjustment layer and increase the blue, cyan, and red

to make the colour a little more dramatic. After this,

add blue to the sky. Grab your eyedropper and

sample the colour of the nicest blue in the sky. Set

your blend mode to Color at 68% and mask around

the yellow and orange areas.

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Duplicate the whole scene, flatten and take the saturation off.

This way you can see the dark areas and the light areas, and use the

contrast to increase a little bit more. I used 0 and 9 on this one with

legacy. Then put this layer on Luminosity 50% to get a nice result. Add

an Add Noise filter with 5% in Overlay with Monochromatic ticked to

create a little bit of noise and integrate the entire scene a bit more

evenly. Your last touch will be the grading. Add an Exposure adjustment

layer to direct the light and make it a little bit lighter, to guide the eyes of

the viewer into your scene.

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Now you need to do some minor colour adjustments in order to bolster the main colours, red and

blue. Click on the Curves adjustment layer and open your curve. Click on the RGB mode in the curve, open the

Red channel and push to increase the red slightly. Now open the Blue and increase the blue area just a little

bit. To finish the process, put on 50% to make the colour correction soft to follow reality. Now you know all the

steps to do this tutorial, have fun!

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