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Creating a secondary shape mask selection

Creating a secondary shape mask selection - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Creating a secondary shape mask selection

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- On any color correction, besides making a color based selection, you can also make a mask based selection defined by a shape. Let's see how we can do this. So here, I have up my chapter 4.3 project, which we got from the projects events in the chapter four folder. I've got a couple clips, here, and we're going to explore working with shape masks. So, here's my first image, and what I'm going to do is just select this clip, and actually choose to go to the color inspector by pressing Command + Six, and let's add a color wheels selection. With the color wheels selection made, I'm going to do a few things. I'm going to basically decrease the shadows. I'm going to increase the highlights quite a bit, just to lighten up the shot. I can get quite a bit more range, there. I'm going to just play around with the master exposure, and bring down the shadows, again. So, here I have my exposure adjustment. I might further continue this by actually just adding an additional adjustment in terms of…

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