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

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Match color in black and white

Match color in black and white - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Match color in black and white

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We've just barely begun this course, and already I get to share with you one of my very favorite visual effects techniques. By working with levels on individual color channels, you can match to virtually any combination of images. Even if color matching has always given you trouble, or you lack a good monitor. Really even if you're completely colorblind, this approach makes the matching process not only accurate, but kind of fun. Here you see a couple of images that are clearly very similar and seem like they should already match perfectly. Looking at the source layers, we have a backplate of a car driving by. And a foreground, which is just roughly masked, of a skater who's going to appear to jump the car when we reposition him. So why are the levels so dramatically different? Why is the foreground so much brighter and greener? The two shots were taken at dramatically different frame rates. This foreground was shot at very high speed, 480 frames per second on a Phantom Flex camera…

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