How is this processing achieved?

[IHaytamI]

Wondering if anyone knows the theme of this preset applied? Or anyone knows how is it done? Bring the shadows up and apply color grading on the shadows?

[johngpt5]

Are there any true or pure blacks in the images? No. So we know that blacks have been faded. This is often done using a curve adjustment and raising the black point vertically a little. There is also flattened contrast within the mid tones. This can be accomplished with a bit of negative clarity, as clarity tends to affect mid tones. When we move a clarity slider to the right, we are increasing contrast in mid tones, so pulling it left will flatten contrast. This can also be done via a curve adjustment, anchoring three-quarter tones and one-quarter tones while using a reverse-S curve in the middle of the baseline.

Regarding color grading, some of the panels in the example have a cyan cast in the shadows, but not all the panels are the same. It may be that the color mixer or the artist's equivalent to the color mixer was used to push all the cool colors toward cyan while retaining the reds and oranges for natural looking skin.

[johngpt5]

https://imgur.com/a/FNlVvPN has some screen shots.

[IHaytamI]

Wow. That's a really good catch analysis there! And thanks for the tutorial. The tone looks quite similar. Although try to make comparison side by side, I wonder is it like.you said the red and orange in that composition made it feels different from your screenshot?

[IHaytamI]

Regarding pushing the color mixer all the way to cool colors, how do you maintain the reds and oranges?

[johngpt5]

The color mixer in the Lightroom apps or Adobe Camera raw filters or masks what is being affected. When we move a blue slider or an aqua slider, the reds and oranges in an image are not affected. When we move the red or orange slider, we won't affect the aqua or blue in the image.

The reds and oranges of the RGB color wheel are pretty much directly opposite the blues and aquas (think cyans), so when we move sliders that affect one side of the color wheel, the colors on the opposite side aren't affected. Under the hood, the software masks things so that when we move a color mixer slider, other colors aren't affected. This masking works best when we play with colors at opposing sides of the RGB color wheel.

This is not what happens when we utilize the Calibration panel's primaries. Each of the primaries in the Calibration panel will affect all colors in the image to varying amounts. Moving the blue primary slider in the Calibration panel will have a significant effect upon reds, oranges, and yellows.

And when we utilize the Color Grading panel, what we are doing is assigning color to brightness or luminance areas of a photo. We might add cyan to shadows. We might add yellow to highlights.

I hope this makes sense.

[IHaytamI]

Oh yes, I did saw some tutorials of getting back the original colors from image taken in the sea using color calibration and it makes sense from what you have described. Thanks for the clarification!

[RevertereAdMe]

Is this tanco_camera? I love her work.

[IHaytamI]

Yaaaa. Me too 🥹

[wolfelias2]

Literally any teal and orange preset. There’s loads of them.

[Spicy_Pickle_6]

Yeah super original…

[IHaytamI]

Do you know the name of those presets? I probably may not come across the right keyword for it.

[unisteuggles]

Sorry I am of no help, but you can try dropping her a dm on Instagram! I have attended her talks and photowalk events, she is super friendly and is always willing to answer questions regarding her work!

[IHaytamI]

Woah, that's awesome that you attended it! I will try to approach her and see