Copy any color grade to your images instantly with new Color Transfer in Photoshop

Colin Smith

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Steal any color grade and use it on your images instantly with new Color Transfer in Photoshop

Have you ever seen a movie or an image and you just wish you could create that same color grade on your photos? Now you can easily, lets explore the new color Transfer first released in Photoshop 2022.

Start with this image.

Dune buggy driving over sand dunes under a pale sky, the photo before Color Transfer

ChooseFilter>Neural Filters>Color Transfer

Neural Filters panel in Photoshop with Color Transfer turned on and its presets showing

Try one of the presets by clicking on it.

Color Transfer preset turning the dune buggy desert photo bright yellow in Photoshop

Maybe not what you want? We can use our own images. Choose custom.

Click the file browser to choose an image.

Here is a screen capture I made from the trailer of the movie the Martian. (You can find trailers on youtube)

Hazy orange desert scene with rocks and cracked earth from a movie trailer, used as the reference

Imediately, it takes on the color and tone of the image and applies it to your image.

Dune buggy photo taking on the orange tones of the reference image in Color Transfer

If you want, you can make a selection on the thumbnail and the color will be constrained to the area you selected.

Crop box drawn on the Color Transfer reference image to limit the colors to one area

This is the result (I preser the result from the entire image in this case)

Dune buggy in the desert with an orange color grade copied using Color Transfer

Use the Masking tools on the lafet to paint the effect away from areas of the image you want to leave original.

Color grade masked away around the dune buggy, leaving a glow of the original colors

I hope you enjoyed this quick little tutorial.

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