1. Take a gray card board first, and customize this photo to the required color temperature

2. Make sure your gray card board is full of pictures

3. When you want to shoot the gray card board very close, it may block the ambient light. It is recommended that you don't be afraid of trouble and change to a lens with a longer focal length.

In terms of color, food photography is more about restoring the true color and texture of ingredients. Although the above points have nothing to do with direct post-retouching, if you don't do these points well, you will only be exhausted in front of the computer screen ...

Personally, I am used to taking photos in RAW format, so there will be more room in the later stage.

It can be roughly divided into two steps:

1. Adobe Lightroom, first adjust the overall color and tone in this software.

2. Adobe Photoshop, repair details, including dirty spots, the perfection of ingredients, and the adjustment of details.

I have also discussed the later period of food pictures with some master friends. Everyone has their own methods, but to sum up, the things that need to be adjusted in essence are the same, that is to say, all roads lead to the same goal. Share here

1. Adobe lightroom mainly adjusts the color temperature and tone, exposure, contrast and so on.

Cheat 1: Ordinary dishes, rich ingredients determine that this photo will have a rich level. If you want to get a soft picture, that is, not to make the colors brighter by improving the contrast, but also to have a beautiful color, it is recommended to play with the function of "color vividness".

Cheat 2: When there are many highlights in this picture, which are more important (for example, the highlights are on the ingredients, not the unimportant accessories such as the background), after adjusting all the options (including exposure value), reduce the exposure to the highlight level, output jpg format, and then adjust it with PS. The reason is that in PS, the layering of darkening and brightening will not be lost, while when the highlights are darkened, it is difficult to find the details.

2. Adobe Photoshop repairs details, including dirty spots, the perfection of ingredients, and the tone adjustment of details. All the time-consuming work is done in PS.

Step 1: Fix the dirty spots, flaws and imperfect ingredients on the film first.

importance: if you adjust the contrast, sharpen and other steps, and then repair the defects, especially where the area is slightly larger or the color is too obvious, it will be more natural and smooth to repair first than to repair later.

Step 2: Create a new layer, change the layer mode to "soft light" and adjust the layer transparency. This value depends on the specific dishes and light.

cheats: after the "soft light" effect, you will get a beautiful contrast and color. However, the disadvantage of this function is that the black and white layers will be lost. At this time, it is recommended to use a mask to wipe out the brightest and darkest places on this layer.

Step 3: Adjust the layering of black and white locally, and use the combination of tools such as curves, highlights and shadows to wipe out the needed places with masks. This step may have to be repeated several times, so everyone must be patient at this stage.

General food pictures, whether Chinese food or western food, will have obvious dark parts and highlights. For example, a fried vegetarian dish contains both white yam and black fungus. For example, a dessert contains both white cream and dark blueberries.

This method may be a waste of time, and it is a stupid method, but its advantage is that it is more accurate. In a photo, you can see all the details at a glance, and you are often satisfied at this time.

Step 4: Sharpen.

create a new layer-filter-sharpen-other-Gao Fancha reserved-values 2 to 3-layer mode "soft light"-merge layers.