Newbie how to make 100 stills look the same

[photogCO]

Hi there,
Newbie photographer. I took 100 photos over 40 weeks and am trying to make a stop motion video with them. My issue is that the 100 photos do not all match. I used the same exposure every time, but I want them to look identical--- as if they were all taken the same day. Is their any way to make them all look the same using Lightroom?

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Care to post a few of the widely different images to see what might be done?

 

[photogCO]

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I don't think you'll get them all exactly the same, but you can get them close.

You will have to adjust the exposure and the white balance for each image. The image on the right is under exposed, and may wind up cooler. Th image on the left looks exposed well, but looks too warm. Underexposed colors tend to become richer when increasing the exposure level, so you may have to tinker with saturation as well.

Your subject is also in different positions in the frame, and you may have moved closer/farther with each shot. You can use one image as a base and layer every other image on it and adjust the new layers to position them closer to the original.

Others will give you better technical help, but that's the basics, and I hope it helps.

Oh, also, you have your profile set to not allow posting edits of your image, which will deter some from helping you. Either change that, or give explicit permission to post edits for this thread.

 

[sekhar]

If you have Photoshop, try match color (Image->Adjustments->Match Color). Below is #2 matched to #1 that way. Not as good as manual tweaks, but pretty close.

 

[fokker]

If you happened to have shot these in RAW format it will make matching the white balances a lot easier.

 

[photogCO]

If you have Photoshop, try match color (Image->Adjustments->Match Color). Below is #2 matched to #1 that way. Not as good as manual tweaks, but pretty close.

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Both images should be open in photoshop to do this correct?

 

[photogCO]

If you happened to have shot these in RAW format it will make matching the white balances a lot easier.

I do have the images in RAW as well. Any suggestions?

 

[sekhar]

If you have Photoshop, try match color (Image->Adjustments->Match Color). Below is #2 matched to #1 that way. Not as good as manual tweaks, but pretty close.

View attachment 34985

Both images should be open in photoshop to do this correct?

No, you can create an action and convert them in a batch. You'll only need the source (the image you want to match to) open.