How to Match Color Between Images in Photoshop

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Found a photo online with color toning you love? Here's the manual technique for matching that exact color and light onto any of your own images.

Aaron places a color-toned reference photo directly over his own image, uses a Black & White adjustment layer to compare highlight and shadow brightness between the two, then replicates that same matching inside a Levels layer's individual Red, Green, and Blue channels to pull the reference's exact color and tone onto his own photo.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Matching Colors Between Two Photos
01:33 Adding a Black & White Adjustment Layer
02:19 Comparing Highlights and Shadows
02:54 Matching Tones with a Levels Layer
04:39 Analyzing Color with Black and White Off
05:25 Matching Highlights by Color Channel
06:49 Fine-Tuning Your Mid-Tones
09:01 Recap: How to Match Any Photo's Color

THE STEPS
1. Drag your color-toned reference image onto your working image, onto its own layer
2. Add a Black & White adjustment layer to compare highlight and shadow brightness between the two images
3. Add a Levels adjustment layer under your reference layer, and match tones using the top and bottom sliders
4. Turn Black & White off, then repeat those same highlight and mid-tone adjustments inside the Levels layer's Red, Green, and Blue channels
5. Fine-tune each channel until your highlights and mid-tones match the reference image's color

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