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Desaturate with Tint

Desaturate with Tint - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Desaturate with Tint

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In this scene, you may have noticed me using the tint effect to lower the saturation of the cube. Now, you may be wondering, why did I do it that way when there's a perfectly useful hue saturation effect in which I can lower the saturation. So, now I'm going to get into a bit of extreme nerdy detail about the difference between hue and saturation and tint. But this is very important. Particularly if you're ever trying to create a black and white image. To show you this, I'm going to use this custom created graphic. [BLANK_AUDIO]. So here we have a number of characters that are pure digital colors. Red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow. I'll apply hue and saturation, and lower saturation. And something very strange happens. The characters disappear because as I desaturated them, they became pure gray. Now technically, that seems like the right thing, but in fact, your eye perceives them differently, which is why a black and white image isn't just pure gray, if the luminance levels…

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