Simple COLOR GRADE Trick To Make Your Photo 'Pop' (Look MORE 3D!)

In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to make your Portrait photo "pop" & look more 3D (using several 'Subject Separation' color grading effects!)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Initial Adjustments
1:38 'Subject Separation' Overview
2:07 Background DEPTH
4:15 Subject SEPARATION
6:34 Final 3D Effects!

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[WyvernApalis]

This tutorial is better than those that simply show you what to do, because the reasoning behind every edit is being explained, so people can apply the skill quicker to their work. Great tutorial.

[LordRedfern]

The one thing that makes any of these tutorials truly pop is the one thing Photoshop does not have, a very attractive subject.

[younisjamal]

Your explanation is completely incomprehensible !!!

[keithkreatives]

This can be done in LR. Simple subject select in the masking tool. Like Justin, first select the subject, invert, darken the background and decrease clarity/sharpness. Then select the subject in a second mask, and tweak as upping exposure a tad, add some vibrance, contrast, and whatever else to your taste. BOOM! Done in a couple minutes, tops.

[ardaarsen]

Subject seperation is well explained in here. I do it alot more subtly though. Because I went to extreme many times and subject looked like it was cropped and pasted from another photo. Most of the times I dont even use all 4 methods together. But I try to do so.

[stillready]

Pretty high quality tutorial in less than 10 minutes and a pretty impressive result (she obviously looked stunning even before the edit).

[Boxofcare]

You can give groups masks too, so instead having three different layers with same mask, put the layers in group and give that group the mask! Gives the perk to use (different) mask on the layers in case you want to tweak them somehow.

[royandescartes]

so i have been BEGGING so many of these instagram photographers who do retouching like this to teach me...teach me and they always offer a pay wall before anything. screw em all. thank you Justin for this. this has opened up my skills in Photoshop a lot more. it was the piece i was missing. thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. also you have gained a subscriber FOR LIFE!

[GothicMaximalist]

The pop up visuals to accompany what you are saying, were just perfect! You speak clearly and at a good pace, everything is so clear cut, I couldn't imagine a better tutorial formula. Thank you for this, you've been a great help!!

[yeahhhhh]

One of the underrated YouTube Channel. Man you deserve more

[DrFlexit]

It's amazing how I can understand everything and translate it to lightroom as well. I am a newbie in photography by the way. Great video!

[blacksham]

as an editor for 6 years I have not learned this tip by selecting only the subject to pop out. Thanks Justin, also for the beautiful photos

[Shoetari]

Gotta love when you keep repeating the shortcuts! It's really important to get shortcuts to people workflows

[EddiTaru]

Man. What an astolinishing tutorial. I want your skills. Dang. I used to know how to do all this but it's been good 7 years. :(. Time to get back.

[alex.Lukehart]

Flash/strobe could help get most of this done in camera. You trade set up time for editing time though.
Really cool to see you take those principals of dual exposure and recreate it with layer masks in Lightroom. It’s almost as if the model was exposed with an off camera flash and the background was ambient in the final product.

[edwardtse]

This youtuber is a winner in the category of having the biggest proportion of screen dedicated to his mic. It's literally bigger than his head.

[greatpix]

There's one other trick you can use to make the model pop. You actually did half of it by warming her up a bit. The other half would be cooling down the background by adding blue/cyan. The eye sees warm colors as closer than cool colors. Years ago I had a photo taken in a mall of a carousel painted in yellows, oranges and reds and in the background was an exit to outside. The light coming in from that was blue by comparison. The slide looked like it was shot in 3D.

[iRahulBRoy]

Just wow! So much info in one comprehensive video!!!

[stevepaulson]

Justin, please consider repeating this edit with only Lightroom. I am curious whether the
new subject masking in Lightroom would allow an even simpler edit to the subject/background with similar impressive results.

[petstarchefseason]

Justin, you make me believe in the generosity of tutorials again ^^ thank you for doing this