I thought I would take a break from client posts to make a post for my fellow photographers. Hands down, the question I get asked most is “How do you get perfect color outside every time?” Usually I will respond when I have some extra time, but since time is fleeting these days (and I…
Michelle W - Thank you so much Sarah for all of this wonderful information. I happened upon it in facebook and am so happy I did. I’ve been changing my “neutral” setting in Bridge manually since forever as I didn’t know how to save it to neutral. lol. I appreciate you.
Heather - Great post! I love your eyedropper trick!
Danica Nelson - Thank you! I learned a lot from this post!
Tira J - Wow Sarah! Thank you so much and for taking the time for putting this post together. You rock!
Karen - Thanks Sarah! I know this is an area I need to work on.
Green and blue color casts drive me nuts!!!
I would say my people look a little too yellow sometimes.
Sheryl - <3 how you're not afraid to share information! Keep up the great work!
Shelly - wow! thanks for all the information!! let me know when you want to host a class and i’ll be there in a heart beat!! i have a question for you – when changing the camera style to neutral in your camera – where is this at? are you a nikon or canon user? i use a nikon d700 and am having troubles finding those options. any help would be much appreciated!!
Danica Nelson - I also have a quick question, if you don’t mind. When I pull my image into PS from ACR (after changing my settings to neutral), the CMYK looks good. Then after I do my color pop, the C drops way down. Does this happen to you also after you do a color pop? In your final edit, are the CMYK values still as you described in your post?
Summer - This was really great! Thanks so much! My ACR does not give the option to change it to neutral. I shoot sony, so I think that is the problem. I changed the setting in my camera, but once it gets into ACR it just goes to standard & its SOOO frustrating. I have googled this issue & thought I had it fixed, downloaded the “solution” and it still only says standard …sigh Thanks for sharing all this great info! I really need to practice shooting in “manual” white balance, I do admit that I have only shot in AWB :/
Shellie - Hey Sarah, I just stopped by to stalk your awesome color, and here was this wonderful article about color! Amazing, I just loved all the info you shared! You’ re incredibly generous to have written and shared this, thanks!
Shellie
Laura - Thank you for sharing this Sarah! I don’t think my camera is set to shoot in neutral, I’m for sure trying that out the next time I head out.
mandy richards - Love this post! Thank you! I have a question for you. If you are in photoshop and notice with the eye dropper tool that the magenta is higher than the yellow where in photoshop to you go to adjust the colors? DO you just use the selective color tool and adjust?
Nan Friedman - Thank you- this was really helpful!!
Shana - Hi there, so very grateful for your post! I’m just learning. Just one quick question – on Step 2: Camera Style, how do I set my camera to neutral? It sounds like it’s something I do on my camera then also in ACR. (I have a Nikon) I am a total newbie but I was given your link by an amazing photographer and her – and YOUR pictures are amazing so I want to everything you say! :)
Thanks for you help! I look forward to capturing great pictures of my kids and my products that I sell on etsy.
Cheers
Shana
Lisa Shields - I have a photo I am working on and I notice after reading your wonderful article the the yellow and magenta are about right, but the cyan is way to low according to the info box. How do I adjust just the cyan levels. (M-15,Y-25,C-2)
Thanks! This is a great article.
Lisa Shields - Oops, that should have been M-17, Y-25, C-2
Melanie Leighton - Thankyou sooo much for taking the time to share this Sarah! I have always wondered why on earth my images (set to neutral in camera) look so different on the back of my camera to when I upload them to Lightroom! I thought it was just that they looked different because of the size I was viewing them at! Thankyou for sharing!!!
Debbie - Thank you so much…this was great. Would you share what you use to sharpen? Beautiful work.
Pam - guilty as charged. how do I get away from the grass going crazy when doing a color pop? I read your FB posts about electric or glowing grass. I don’t want to do it. How do I not when I go to correct something this inadvertently happens sometimes. I use LR and CS5.
Thanks!
Jennifer Wilcox - Thank you Sarah. You are such a great teacher!
Sandy H - THANKS!! so helpful!
Can you tell me how you add the white stripe across the bottom with your logo in it??
I really want to do that but don’t under stand how