What’s new in ACR 16.0 and Lightroom? An EPIC Color Theory tool that I never knew I needed, and now that I have it, I am STOKED!
This color range feature for modifying color is next-level color theory at play, and it’s at the RAW level. WOW! The only thing I could ask for is for them to port this into an Adjustment Layer into Photoshop. That would make my life complete 🙂
Discussed in this video:
• New HDR Feature
• New Lens Blur Feature for Bokeh
• New changes to Light and Color
• Point Color AWESOMEness
• Understanding the Point Color Features
• Range Function in Point Color
• Point Color in Masking
f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite are the brainchildren of Blake Rudis. While he is a landscape photographer, he is most passionate about post-processing images in Photoshop and mentoring others.
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
Thanks Blake,
been wrestling with that for a few days now, and I’m still amazed and puzzled.
Looks like I have a lot to go through this winter since some of my pictures need this.
Thanks Blake for your honest opinion on this newest update. . . sorry you couldn’t be any more excited about it!!!! Can’t wait until you take this to some color grading of faces in bad light. As an aside, I was just to the left of where you shot the Dallas Divide only at sunrise exactly one year ago to when you where there this year.
Point color adjustments — Sooo interesting. Thanks Blake.
It’s definitely a good time to recalibrate my monitors.
Blake,
A short while ago (days) I watched your friend (Matt K) review color in PS and now have your quite thorough and enthusiastic review of the same. There is a lot to learn here and I look forward to utilizing this feature. Thanks for your expertise.
I hope you will share your trip to CO with us and some photos. While living in CO for 16 years we could do Fall Color tours via both Jeeps and UTV in that area. Age and associated inability to handle the altitude necessitated moving back to the Midwest but I have fond memories of those beautiful vistas. I noted in your photo that the midrange to distant Aspens had lost the majority of their leaves surely lowering the beautiful glow that they would provide in that region.
Thanks again for all your effort in providing wonderful education in photography.
Bob
Thanks, Blake, for bringing us up to speed on Point Color. Your video was fantastic!
Wow! I saw last night that there was an update, but didn’t have time to download and play. Really appreciate having you explain it to me before I got completely lost. Looking forward to seeing the great things you’ll do once you’ve had even more time to explore.
Holy cow! This is like hue saturation and luminance blend-if, and all that in ACR!!
Thank you for the deep dive into this incredible new tool 😀
Blake, your enthusiasm is infectious and the experience in color that you bring is superb. You and Matt make a good team as your experience and emphasis are separate but complementary. Thanks for your unique perspectives on color with this tool! Looking forward to more soon.
The changes are mind-boggling and will be loads of fun to put to work. Noticed that the changes in placement of controls in the Light, Color and Effects groups did not make it into LR Classic 13.0 (yet?). I see them in ACR and they exist in LR in the places they have been in previous versions. Might be worth pointing out for LR Classic users who don’t dwell in ACR.
Blake…
WOW
Thanks to Adobe you have an important job for LIFE!
Thanks to being an elite member I get to follow you into these exciting new spaces!
Jim
Thanks for sharing Blake! Very excited to try this out. Just finished the ZE courses and getting stuck in to the PE courses – absolutely loving it. Looking forward to combining all this in to my workflows and having more purpose to my edits!
Hi Blake
I know your love of colour and over the years the many ways you have taught us all how to work it, but when I started using it before your video I was also blown away. I think some of the most interesting parts is the drop down part that selects the colours around the colour your working with. It’s the way colours reflect on the other colours which is one of the hardest parts to getting great results.
I think there is a lot more to be discovered within this latest update.
I agree with Doug Johson’s comment yesterday afternoon–I don’t see/can’t find the Light, Color and Effects sections in the latest update of LrC. I do see the new HDR option, but the rest are “missing.” That said, I might have to think about using ACR for some of my initial processing, then saving back to LrC, then continue progressing on from there. Clearly an extra step or two and it is really a workaround, but maybe I now I have to think about changing my entire workflow to just use ACR? I can only hope/assume the LrC geniuses are working day and night to get this incorporate into their produce.
Thank you Blake,
I am a beginner in Photoshop, and so glad to have you explain the next level of colour.
I have ACR 16.0 loaded but I don’t see all the changes you describe and showed, like HDR, color point and others. Is there a special way to load those extra features that I am not doing.
I love your enthusiasm. It is contagious.
Very Good, Blake. Kudos to Adobe!! Powerful stuff!
Woweee, thanks for an admirably clear explanation Blake. Can’t wait to test-drive this new toy.
I use LR Classic more often than ACR and am not fazed whether or not some controls have remained in the previous LR locations. As for Color Mixer>Point Color; GREAT. So much control, easy to use, fun and gets the job done. Further, the tool will ensure I look more closely at colors; now that is a push I needed. Maybe less time in PS?
I’m surprised that no one else seems to have mentioned it, but the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop has also been updated, just the same as in ACR, including the Point Color tool! Blake, I wanted to be the one to make your life complete… 😉
typically when ACR is updated, ACR as a filter is also updated.
Blake; So you drink tea and not coffee? Well, I need a refund on all the coffee money I’ve sent you over the years ($2500.00 by my very conservative estimate–LOL!). Needless to say, thank you for taking the time to share with all of us this wonderful capability that Adobe has now made available to all of us. You are the best, Blake!
hahaha! My wife drinks coffee, she appreciates it 🙂 I appreciate you, Juan!
Thank You so much. Your teaching methods are awesome,