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Dave's SC Grading Triadic

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Download

Click here to download the latest 'Dave's SC Grading Triadic' macro set.

To insert this into your library, simply click on the 3-line 'hamburger' on the top right of the library panel, click on 'Import Macros...' and point it at the downloaded file. Then click on the layer for which you want a model and click once on the appropriate macro in the 'Dave's SC Grading Triadic' library group category. You can also drag and drop the .macros file onto the image area.

Discussion

This is a set of 28 macros that create a single Selective Colour adjustment layer, plus an HSL layer before and after this, to enable a wide range of colour shifts (although most change will be subtle tweaks of the chosen colour grading).

Colour grading typically reduces the number of colours while giving extra emphasis to selected colours. This macro set does this, with the specific principle of giving emphasis to three colours. Colour sets are based on triangle types, including the visually pleasing and equally spaced Equilateral, the Isosceles (Split Complementary), and Right-Angled triangles.

Note that the colour reduction schemes here act by replacing one colour with another. They do not act on highlights and shadows (another method used for colour grading), which may be achieved using the Split Toning adjustment.

It may be useful to review the macros using a colour wheel (single or four), copies of which are available in the free download of Dave's Test Cards.

Note: At the time of production, if you run a macro when a group is selected, the group will be rasterized (turned into a pixel layer), which can be a real problem. This bug has been reported and may get fixed in future. In the mean time, if you have a group that this macro creates selected (is blue), click Select/Deselect Layers before running another macro.

Macros

The macros are named in the format 'C-C-C T Triadic', where C-C-C are the key colours, with T indicating the triangle type (Equilateral, Isosceles or Right-Angled).

The Equilateral sets are equally spaced around the colour wheel and include primary, secondary and two tertiary sets:

• Red-Green-Blue: Basic primary colour emphasis

• Cyan-Magenta-Yellow: Basic secondary colour (primary opposite) emphasis

• Orange-Spring-Violet: First set of tertiary colours

• Lime-Teal-Rose: Second set of tertiary colours

The Isosceles triangle sets act as Split Complementary harmony groups, such that the apex of the triangle is complemented by colours either side of the usual opposite Complementary colour. These include. Note the first colour in each is the apex colour and the second two are split complementaries to the apex colour.

• Red-Spring-Teal

• Orange-Cyan-Blue

• Yellow-Teal-Violet

• Lime-Blue-Magenta

• Green-Violet-Rose

• Spring-Magenta-Red

• Cyan-Rose-Orange

• Teal-Red-Yellow

• Blue-Orange-Lime

• Violet-Yellow-Treen

• Magenta-Lime-Spring

• Rose-Green-Cyan

The Right-Angled set of macros have the first colour in the set as the right-angled apex and the second two colours are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. This allows you to use a Complementary scheme with a half-way apex support colour.

• Red-Lime-Violet

• Orange-Green-Magenta

• Yellow-Spring-Rose

• Lime-Cyan-Red

• Green-Teal-Orange

• Spring-Blue-Yellow

• Cyan-Violet-Lime

• Teal-Magenta-Green

• Blue-Rose-Spring

• Violet-Red-Cyan

• Magenta-Orange-Teal

• Rose-Yellow-Blue

You can click one macro after another to try them out one after another, without Applying them. The macros create individual groups so can easily be removed with a selection click and hitting Delete.

In the controls given, 'Rotate' and 'Shift' adjust colour by using the Hue control within an HSL layer, before and after the Selective Colour layer. When you adjust Rotate in one direction, you can return to a more familiar (yet changed) colour set by adjusting the Shift in the opposite direction by the same amount.

The 'Strength' control adjusts Opacity of the overall group. After the macro has been selected, you can open the group and adjust these in the native adjustments there.

Macros can be stacked by running one after another. In this way you can create multiple colour schemes.

See also

If you are having problems downloading the macros, click here to download as zip file.

Free! Colour Grading Macros (24 Dyadic Primary to Tertiary Grades)

Free! Colour Grading Macros (24 Monadic Primary to Tertiary Grades)