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Today we're gonna talk about how you can spend less time perfecting your color grade and more time actually focused on making the stories you want to tell. Because we all know what it's like to be so locked in that you spend painstakingly long hours, days even, trying to get your colors and white balance just right... that you forget the whole point was to just make your art and put your stories out there. 🎥🎨 Which is exactly why I made this color-grading preset so you can spend less time perfecting and more time living. 😌
Color Grading Should Be Easy: and here's exactly how you're gonna do it 🎨 Watch HERE
Finding Ideas and Inspiration: Here's how I get inspired whenever I feel like I'm stuck or in a creative rut 💡 Watch HERE
This one-click color grade is a cheat code for those of you who want to save time in your editing process.⏳ And right now, I'm running an exclusive flash sale only for those of you in the APCC community! Enjoy 40% off of the preset as a special thank you for being here. 🙏 Head HERE to get yours!
Have a question about cameras/editing/technical skills? Ask me HERE! Your question may be featured and answered in depth on the following week’s newsletter.
Question of the Week:
“Whenever I am colourgrading in Adobe Premiere Pro, the footage almost always comes out looking very dull. I film in S-LOG3 and cinegamut but after that I just cant seem to get the colours right. Could you help me and maybe others how to make those colour really pop instead of poop?” Submitted by: Kevin
From Adrian 💬
Totally get you, S-LOG3 and CineGamut give you maximum flexibility, but without the right steps, the footage can look super flat even after the correcting and grading process. First, make sure you’re using a proper conversion LUT to bring it into Rec709 before grading. Or Use the "AP Classic Cine" LUT to skip the Rec709 conversion. Don’t try to color straight off LOG. Fix your white balance and exposure first! Then build your look in layers: contrast, then saturation, then creative tweaks with curves. Saturation alone won’t make things "pop." you need color contrast. The more you up your contrast, the deeper your colors will feel.
This color grade preset is the product of working 10+ years in the industry as a professional colorist. 🧑🎨 It's everything I've ever learned condensed into a simple, easy to use product so that you too can also get the look of my videos. 🎞 So whether you're new to color grading or just want a tool to help refine your art even further, I hope this will be another tool in your content creation arsenal to get you closer to the videos you want to make! As always, happy creating! ✌️
