ColorMade Single Palette Workflow
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Our Single Palette collections are designed with a top-down workflow divided into three intuitive sections to facilitate a clean, professional, and flexible workflow that feels at once polished and bespoke!
This guide was built to allow you to experience the single palette workflow through video demonstration and introduce you to the each section with a detailed breakdown of included presets!
01. Light + Lens | 02. Presets | 03. Tools
01. Light + Lens - Correct
We consider light + lens adjustments to be key corrections for any professional photographer. These changes are often done manually for any workflow. We've added them up-top to provide a seamless experience when using these collections, so you can spend less time moving back and forth between Lightroom panels and more time dialing in your signature look!
| Exposure | The Exposure adjustment presets will affect image brightness. These can be used in a corrective or stylistic capacity. |
| White Balance | These presets will adjust for environmental color casts for true, clean, balanced whites + highlights. |
| Lens Fix | This preset will address warp or vignette caused by your lens, toggle on/off to preview. |
| Color Fringe Fix | This preset removes chromatic aberration caused by your lens (especially when shooting with a wider aperture). Chromatic aberration refers to the green or magenta color fringing you might see around highlights/bright spots or sharp corners. |
02. Presets - ColorMade
At the core of our single palette collections are 10 full-color variants on the collection palette. These 10 global edit options are uniquely designed so you can spend less time tweaking things for different lighting, scenes, and environments and get cohesive results for your galleries without sacrificing style.
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Original |
The original, balanced, full-color presentation of the tonal palette. |
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Lite |
A brighter, airier variation on the tonal palette, with lifted shadows and less emphasis on darks. |
| Lifted | This variation harmonizes light and darks, lifting the palette overall with reduced highs and lifted shadows. |
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Deep |
This variation celebrates darks and adds depth to the tonal palette with deepened shadows. |
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Soft |
This variation drops clarity and softens contrast for a dreamlike mix of palette tones. |
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Crisp |
A clean, colorful variation on the palette that brings hues into even focus with stronger contrast. |
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Rich |
This variation strengthens the tonal palette and brings hues into pleasant focus with crushed highs. |
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Detailed |
This variation clarifies the tonal palette and uncovers details lost to clipped highs and lows. |
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Lifted Film |
This variation takes the tonal palette and washes it in a filmic matte via curve-lifted darks. |
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Crushed Film |
This variation crushes highs and pushes a heavier lift to darks to enhance clarity while washing the palette in a filmic matte. |
03. Tools - Customize
This section of optional, stackable tool presets allows you to further customize your workflow for unique and stunning results tailored to your images and style. Make film-inspired changes to highlights and/or shadows, transform atmosphere, address common light and color concerns for problem images, add grain, and finish up with sharpening!
| Filmic Adjustments | Vanquish hot highlights and whites with "Film Highlights Reduced" for creamy cinematic skin-tones. Lift black pixels to grey for milky shadows and uncover lost details with "Film Shadows Lifted". |
| Atmosphere Adjustments | Want a brighter, softer image, with a touch of glow, but without sacrificing depth? -"Add Light & Dreamify" Want to add a soft-everywhere, hazy, otherworldly vibe? - "Add Atmosphere & Soften" Details lost to sunlight, fog, mist, or other haze? - "Reduce Atmosphere & Restore Details" |
| Light Fixes | Midday Light woes throwing garish contrast between light & shadow? Equalize with "Harsh Light Fix" Indoor Light left you with weird color and/or lost details? Lift blacks, mute color, and gently reduce contrast with "Indoor Light Fix" |
| Color Adjustments | Color too soft? "Embolden Color Tones" Too bold? "Mute Color Tones" Undo these changes with "Color Tones Reset" |
| Film Grain | Add film grain to taste with "Grain Light" or "Grain Heavy" |
| Print-Ready Sharpen | "Print Ready Sharpen" adds a beautiful, crisp finishing touch to your images to ready them for print! |
Bonus Tools: AI Effects
We've also included options to target background, subject skin, and subject light for localized changes and maximum control over your results!
| Background Effects | Each Single Palette collection includes unique background effects suited to the palette style and overall vibe. These effects will adjust only the background of your images. |
| Subject Retouch | All Single Palette collections include a Clean Retouch option that whitens/brightens teeth, softens subject face & body skin, brightens eye and sclera and makes iris color pop! |
| Subject Skin Fix | One of our key updates to the single palette collections were our skin fix tools - to allow issues to fix common skin tone issues without sacrificing their stylistic edit or the global color palette of their images. These skin fixes account for flat, green/blue, grey, and orange skin and apply balancing corrections to face and body skin locally to correct for this! |
| Subject Light Correction | We've also included simple, central-focused Gold & Silver reflector presets to mimic the work of handheld reflectors to correct lighting on your subject locally. |
Adjusting Applied Presets
Finding a preset too strong or not strong enough? Adjust preset strength to taste with the amount slider as you apply presets. The amount slider is found at the top of your preset panel in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw, and just below the preset in Lightroom (as seen in our video examples)!
Need to subtract a subject from an applied AI effect? Start by selecting the Masking tool (circle with dotted line outline icon) in to view applied AI masks. Make sure masks are expanded (little arrow icon top right) so you can read the titles. Click on the layer you'd like to change:
Select "Subtract" and click the "People" option:
This will generate thumbnails of the identified subjects affected by the mask. Click on the person you'd like to subtract, and either select "Entire Person" or select the specific zone(s) to which the mask has been applied (such as Facial Skin and Body Skin) and click "Subtract"/"Create Mask":
Featured images by: @baylieranaephoto