Along with a vignette, wide angles also display a slight fish-eye effect, where the middle portion of the image bulges in or outwards.

You can manually shift the overlap between the RGB channels with this effect.

Chromatic Aberation is a great effect for simulating more lens realism, but should never be overdone.

This is because our interior render uses a wide angle lens, which inherently have some vignette.

It’ll be a good idea to add a slight Vignette effect.

We’ll add this same subtle effect here with high quality but low blur values. Real lenses aren’t perfect and have a tendency to blur the edges of the image a little bit.

In order to add some realistic lens property, I’ve included Edge Softness in the lens slot.

This will create some natural hot spots in the image where high intensity light is present.

Next I’ve added the Spot Exposure effect to 3 areas in the scene on the Lens slot.

This will help accentuate the cool and warm areas in the image. One is a little yellowish, while the other is a bit bluish.

First Up, I’ve added two Crush effects to the Subject slot.

So let’s get started and all the effects. It allows you to interactively add a lot of effects to the tool chain and stack them.

The cool thing about PhotoLooks is that it has its own awesome interface and style of doing grading and correction. We’ll be doing our grading over this merged layer. It’s best to collapse all these layers by selecting the last layer and pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. Now that I’ve fixed and finalized a final image, I’ll start color grading it.

These include atmosphere, local fixes, light beams, lens flares, layered adjustments, render passes and the base layer with the exterior background. I’ve grouped all the similar corrections to their unique folders. In this current scene, you can see that I’ve already done a lot of professional post production to the image in Photoshop. Once installed, you can access it through Filter > Magic Bullet > Looks. Looks works as a plugin inside your Photoshop installation. This is where Magic Bullets’s amazing Looks plugin takes over and makes color correcting fun and powerful.Īdding professional Plugins such as Looks Builder can save time and bring your images up to the desired result – see how its done here: Even with all the capabilities of Photoshop, it is not the ideal tool for color grading work. Professional Post Production is not an easy task.

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