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Creating spot colors with the Black & White effect

Creating spot colors with the Black & White effect - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating spot colors with the Black & White effect

- The goal with secondary color correction is to add emphasis to a particular color in the scene. This is where we start to get much more subjective in our grading. Ideally, you can add emphasis or remove all of the other colors but one. Let me show you a couple a techniques with a black and white adjustment layer to start. What we're going to do here is really take the scene and just emphasize the colors to bring them out a little bit more subtly. One of the things I love is blending modes. They allow you to actually change how things are going to interact, so for example, in this case you see we have some adjustment layers and those adjustment layers are actually effecting the overall look of the production. So, how does this work? Well, it really just comes down to using an effect but changing the way that it works, so let's do this. We'll start by adding a new adjustment layer, and on this adjustment layer,…

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