Teal and Orange Secret in Seconds (No LUTs)

This one color grading trick gets teal and orange in seconds (without LUTs):

There is nothing quite like the beautiful color contrast that the teal and orange or orange & teal look creates.

Contrasting warm skin tones to a cool background focuses the audiences eye on the talent, which come on, is the primary focus.

Additionally it's kind of like a bottled up sunset or "magic hour" when the warm sunlight is illuminating everything directly and the sky is acting like a giant blue bounce card illuminating everything else that's in the shadows.

In this tutorial I reveal how to get this coveted look without using LUTs that can often times break an image and not give you the results you're looking for.

Other tutorials show how to do this but are too complicated and require too many steps making filmmakers feel overwhelmed.

Whether you're in Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro X I show you the easiest and fastest way to get the coveted look in just two steps.

It essentially works like this:

1) Isolate your skin tones and other similar tones then invert the selection
2) Push cool teal colors into the image with the offset/master control

Voila! Feast your eyes.

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Denver Riddle
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[brunofdgoncalves]

Finally! 7 minutes that obliterates hours of tutorials and tons of money spent on LUTs. Good Job!

[ConstantineSPhotography]

0:00 intro
1:39 Davinci Resolve
3:32 Premiere Pro
4:40 Final Cut Pro X
5:48 Online Color Grading Workshop

Key points:
isolate the skin color--adjust the tone---desaturate the shadow

[mecdot]

This is the best tutorial on self making Teal and Orange instead of relying on LUTS. Keep it up on showing in all 3 Applications. Your teaching is the best. Thanks a lot.

[samuelodan]

Wow, so this is the orange and teal look I'd been trying so hard to learn.

This is the best video of it's kind in my opinion.
Thanks man

[ChrisWilmshurst]

Now this is the most straight forward and easy to follow colour grading tutorial I've seen! I did not know about the mask tool for skin tones in premiere!

[mwcdls]

This is by far the best and easiest way. Not to mention the most versatile. HUGE THANKS!

[Skinra]

Been using FCP for 6 years and never noticed we could save applied effects to new presets... I've been using Motion 5 to do it but this is game changing, plus nice tips for teal & orange, thanks man !

[rameramaproductions]

I have watched color grading tutorials weekly for the last two years. This is the most helpful and informative video I have found.

[TheAtlasSupreme]

Man, Idk how everything else got so complicated. You did this perfectly. Thank you.

[angeljimenezaguado]

I never could get this look as precisely as I get it now because of you. You are incredible man.

[ohnojc]

I just realized this trick lately from my practice but I fount it too easy to believe and here you are omg. Thank god it wasn’t just in my illusion lol

[BASEDinMaine]

I have never seen the adjustment layer recommendation for color correcting multiple clips in premiere until now...I'm super grateful!

[shadi]

A quick tip for qualifiers!
Instead of using the “denoise” function is recommend trying to increase the minimum saturation slider to be ~.2-.7. It does the same thing as reducing the noise but without blurring your overall qualification.
Hope this helps someone :)

[editedbytuhin]

One of THE most effective teal and orange grading tutorial!

[saeedrichardson]

Just want to say thanks very much for using African Americans with dark skin as example videos. Can't tell you how many video editing tuts and examples I've seen with fairly light complexions and how difficult it can be sometimes with dark skin tones, especially when so much color grading doesn't take that into account. I really appreciate it.

[worldwildhearts]

GREAT video! We will be using this in our future travel inspiration videos. Thanks so much. Subscribed :)

[abelgeorge]

FINALLY!!!! A VIDEO WITH PROPER EXPLANATION!!! Liked and Subscribed!

[dogflirt]

I cannot begin to tell you how DOPE this video is. Seriously. This is an ACTUAL game changer. Crazy no one else is talking about this on YT. Thank you Denver!!

[GabrielPierreStudios]

God bless you my brother, best color grading tutorials on YouTube and I have looked at a lot. Concise and to the point

[robmanning]

Thank you for using light and dark skin tones in the tutorial. I wish everyone did this.