The Natural Light Portrait Book

Cinematic Color Grading for Portraits

You can hardly find a major motion picture that doesn’t use some sort of color grading throughout the movie to help give it an overall tone or feel. It spread to TV (check out The Handmaid’s Tale, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and a ton more), and well, now it has spread to stills, as it’s super-popular to add a cinematic-style color grade to your images. Luckily, it’s also super-easy to do in Photoshop. Open your image, then click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon (it’s the fourth icon from the left) ...