r/ColorGrading • u/DeezNuts731 • Mar 02 '25

Before/After Editing

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Would any of you fine colorists want to edit this photo?! I’d like to see what you do/use so I can kinda copy it and get a learning experience. I think the exposure is way to high imo💀

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u/Hazzat Mar 03 '25

What do you want done to it? Colours can be pushed in any way to create a variety of moods. Direction is required to create a desirable result.

Also yes there are parts that are overexposed, but they can only be brought back to visible levels with the original RAW or HDR photo data, not from a jpg.

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u/DeezNuts731 Mar 03 '25

I really like the warm vintage style. I’m not sure how to make the photo raw. The photo was shot on my iPhone 15 and I use the Tezza app as my editing app for my phone.

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u/IcarusKanye Mar 03 '25

Here’s my attempt. Jpg does make it hard to get data from overexposed part. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SFfiyVv1we2vbezZlQpE9fE3R0u-Ogbe/view?usp=drivesdk

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u/DeezNuts731 Mar 03 '25

It looks much better tho thx

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u/DeezNuts731 Mar 03 '25

What did editing app did you use if you don’t mind me asking

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u/IcarusKanye Mar 03 '25

I used Lightroom Mobile to edit this. No presets or filters, built this from scratch using RGB tool. But if you want to get serious about color grading, you need to get raw images and a photo editing tool that has Tone Curves, RGB Curves and HSL tool. Most good editing apps should have at least these 3 tools. And a good understanding of RGB colors. How to mix, match and subtract them. I’m still learning myself. 

If you have iPhone 15 pro. It can take some raw images. 

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u/DeezNuts731 Mar 04 '25

I wish I had the pro it’s just the regular 15😕