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Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation

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Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation

- As useful as the Waveform monitor and the RGB Parade is they don't tell me everything I need to know about the colorfulness of my image. They're great at showing me all sorts of things like what color is more predominant in this image. Not so much at telling me how much more predominant is that color in an image. So, to do that let's take a look here at our Vectorscope. I just pulled that up right here under Vectorscope. And we're working off of Timeline 07_04 Saturation Hue for those of you who have access to the exercise files and are following along. So we're looking at this wonderful gray scale ramp, and as I take a look at the Vectorscope I'm seeing nothing, why? Because there is no color in this image. It's a pure, black-and-white, gray scale ramp. Which means that the only thing I'm seeing in here is this tiny, little dot in the very center of the Vectorscope. I can kick up the Trace quite a bit and you're still really not seeing ... let's drop down the Graticule and there…

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