One of the greatest things about the Infinite Color Panel is that it's universally useful - because of the fine adjustments you can make to each individual layer contributing to the overall color grade in addition to global adjustments to the overall intensity, literally anyone can make use of the panel, especially if you struggle with creating pleasing and harmonious color toning throughout your imagery. As with the rest of Infinite Color Panel's adjustments, each adjustment layer in the "Harmonize" group is customizable, so you can easily change or fine-tune the color and opacity of the effect on your highlights, midtones and shadows independently even after the effect has been applied. Infinite Color Panel in useįinally, the panel offers a "Harmonize" feature, which color grades your highlights, midtones and shadows independently with a triadic color scheme based off of the tones and colors present in the image you're working on - "Harmonize" can be used by itself as a complete color grade, or in conjunction with an Infinite Panel color grade to bring harmony (thus, the name), to the entire image. The panel is compatible with most versions of Photoshop - for reference, I am using the latest version, Photoshop CC 2018 (build 19.1.5, July 2018). The Infinite Color Panel is simple in its operation, yet with enough depth, features and customization for advanced users.
For people like myself, who struggle with finding and creating a color palette with which to color grade our photos, this panel is an absolute godsend and can spark creativity and present you options you may not have considered otherwise. What is it?ġ0 years in development, the Infinite Color Panel is an Adobe Photoshop extension/panel created with the sole purpose of applying beautiful, aesthetically pleasing color toning to an image or set of images.
Needless to say, I was really excited to test it out because creating harmonious and aesthetically-pleasing color palettes for my photos has been something I've struggled with over the years - my go-to has always been the "cinematic look" (you know what I'm talking about - a little blue/cyan in the shadows, and a little yellow-orange in the highlights and midtones). This new tool makes the color toning step of my process infinitely easier (no pun intended). Pratik graciously provided us with a copy of his new Infinite Color Panel for us to test out and review.
I've known of Pratik for quite a while through his work for high profile campaigns and photographers and through his excellent PRO EDU on beauty and portrait retouching, but have only gotten to know him better personally over the last year or so. Pratik Naik is well-known in photography circles as a master retoucher, Photoshop educator, and founder of Solstice Retouch, with his work appearing in the pages of Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Marie Claire, and a number of commercial campaigns. As always, this does not have any bearing on this review, and we strive to present any information as accurately as possible, and without bias.
Disclaimer: We were provided a copy of Pratik's Infinite Color Panel free of charge to conduct this review.