From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
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Selective color match - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
Selective color match
- Sometimes an overall color match will not work, especially when dealing with people faces and exposed body parts, which has a distinct skin tone color. For these situations, you need to create a secondary color treatment, which will allow you to isolate only the parts that you need to impact. There are several plug-ins which are really good at that, including the Color Finesse effect that comes with After Effects. However, in this series, I'm limiting everything to the built-in tools that ships with the software. And if there is an easy fix, I rather show you this, instead of something which may be a little bit complicated. So for that we're going to use the "Change to color" effect, and it can be very useful actually for those tasks. So we are starting actually with the same situation over here. We've got this lady who dances, and we want to match her as close as possible to the background, this time without affecting the skin tone color of her body. So let's go to the "Effects and…
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