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so hello and welcome to this retouching
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Academy course on color grading I'm
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Michael volition bitch thank you very
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much for purchasing the course and I
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guess we'll start off by talking about
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what it is that we're gonna be talking
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about throughout the rest of the course
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basically when we were designing this
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course we kind of went back and forth
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deliberating you know how much we should
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talk about the theory of color grading
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vs practical application of tools within
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Photoshop to achieve certain looks and
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color grade schemes and ultimately we
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decided that we're gonna have air more
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on the side of the practical application
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for a variety of reasons now that's not
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to say that the theory is not
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necessarily important in fact if you're
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planning on becoming a professional you
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know full-time retoucher you absolutely
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need to know the color theory so that is
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something that we highly recommend that
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you study but what I also kind of
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thought about was that generally
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speaking a large portion of people
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watching this probably don't care about
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the theory you know everybody knows yeah
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you should know the theory but
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ultimately they don't really care about
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it they just want to make their images
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look better and the next reason why we
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didn't really decide to focus on it too
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much on theory is that it's generally by
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find for something like color theory is
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better to just learn it by researching
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specific topics or picking up a book on
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color theory and kind of studying that
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you know kind of within your own pace
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and just visually trying to absorb
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what's there because looking at it from
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a video standpoint I don't find it's a
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very effective way of teaching something
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like color theory so that is why
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throughout this course we're really
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focused on practical application and of
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course we're going to talk about you
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know sort of colors that work together
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while we're actually working through
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sample images and we're also going to
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talk about it in the context of you know
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this image style can have this kind of
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color grade because of this and this
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other image style can have a more
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aggressive color rating and we'll talk
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about why that is and you know so the
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characteristics of an image that lend
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themselves to color grading
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and so you know what as far as a color
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theory goes make sure you study things
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like the color wheel you know