Fine-tuning color using rendered masks

…Once you've got all of your layers brought in and merged, you…can start to adjust different colors on different objects using your masks.…Typically, the sequence I'll use in my compositing…is to read and merge getting everything stack.…Then do color correction and adjustment on different elements.…And this way anything that is luma based afterwards, such as glow.…Or maybe a boca node in a depth of field,…is basing on the correct luminance, or brightness in that image.…So I'm going to push around the color just a little bit.…

First using a grayed node and then a color correct.…I'll select the Merge 2.…My screening merge of the specular highlight, and press g for grade.…Grade is what we use to, as the name suggests, grade footage.…Pushing around where the white point is, gamma and so on.…To alter that footage to a certain look, or to calibrate it on ingest.…Let's say it's coming from a camera and we ned to push…where white is, so our fluorescent lights don't look yellow or green.…We can do it here in grade easily.…