How To Color Grade Video In Photoshop

On this video tutorial Aaron Nace from Phlearn looks at color grading a video using Adobe Photoshop.

This is the second part of this 4 part series on video editing in Photoshop and in this video Nace looks at color grading. Nace start by showing how easy it is to add a curve adjustment layer just like you would do to any still image in Photoshop to a video segment.

Next Nace looks at global adjustment layers (which effect all the video and not just one part) – this is done by grouping all of the video segments. You can do very complex things this way – Nace gives an examples of adding a gradient to your video where the lower part is in color and the upper part is black and white and of course you can do many other complex adjustments this way.

This isn’t the first time we look at editing videos in Photoshop – last week we published the first part of this series called The Basics of Editing Video in Photoshop as well as older videos such as Simple Video Editing in Photoshop with Photoshop senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes a somewhat longer video by Terry White. If you are a more serious video editor you would probably want to check white’s video – 10 Things Beginners Need to Know about using Premiere Pro CC.

You can find many more Photoshop video tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section (and you can find a lot more Phlearn videos on our special Phlearn subsection).

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.