Macro Photography: Color Control

Color management can be tough to wrap your head around. Matt Hill goes over the basics of color management and color correction. He shows you how to set up a color checker in Lightroom Classic, how to adjust color, and how to focus stack macro photography.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 3:57 - Capturing Macro Images
• 6:06 - What Do Color Problems Look Like?
• 9:35 - Take Control of Your Inputs: Color Checker, Stability, and Color Calibration
• 17:41 - Color Management and Color Correction Are Not the Same
• 20:06 - Setting Up Color Checker Profiles in Lightroom Classic
• 28:58 - Image Stacking with Helicon Focus
• 35:50 - Making Adjustments: Color Correction
• 43:00 - Different Color Profiles
• 47:57 - Calibrate Your Monitor Before Color Correcting Your Images
• 49:35 - Building Color Profiles Based on the Lenses and Lights You Use
• 57:22 - The Setup: Correct Color vs. What Colors You Want
• 1:01:08 - Working with Highly Saturated Colors
• 1:09:45 - Macro Panoramic Photos
• 1:12:14 - Final Thoughts

Are you a whiz at managing color in your images? Share your tips in the Comments section, below.

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