Using color balance rgb for creative color grading

[garibaldi (Andrew)]

@adrs

I don’t think using hex colour / exact value for colour styling or colour grading would work, because the colour in an image/scene is relative to each other, so there’s always be a little tweak on the hue to make it “fit” to the scene. Even in the case of dealing with brand colour (e.g. photo for ads), there’s won’t be an exact match between brand colour value and colour presented on an image.

Good point. So you’re advising to pick a set of general colors (e.g. general shades of yellow and blue) and then set the specific colors in the image itself rather than trying to pick specific colors with the color wheel?

@adrs

If it’s possible, why don’t you try to post the image on Play Raw, along with the referenced colour harmony/image, so we all could try to edit/achieve it? Because sometimes not all colour combination works on every image, it always depends on the raw photo/scene itself (especially on “unplanned” shots).

I was thinking the same thing - thread created here with one example image.