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. If you’d like to once and for all conquer the native built-in tools and discover how to elevate the look of your films so you can land more work then signup for our free one hour online workshop: And if you’re just dabbling in color grading and want something easier to use but still get the high end colorist look then check our plugin for the Mac that works in all three softwares: Cinema Grade for the Mac and NOW Windows: For more videos like this click below to SUBSCRIBE: Denver Riddle CGC Founder & Colorist Facebook page: twitter: FB group (60K members): #tealandorange