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Advanced color removal, part 1

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Advanced color removal, part 1

- [Voiceover] If you are one of those people that tends to enjoy challenges or the more complex movies, I think you'll really enjoy this one, because here we'll look at a little bit more of a complicated example of how we can remove color in order to add emphasis, and the main goal for this small project is going to be to make sure that the subject is in the original color, then the background we're gonna desaturate it and also add a little bit of a color tint to that area as well. First what I need to do is to set up the project, so I'll create a few adjustment layers and copy the background, and then we'll look at building our mask and selection. So let's begin by clicking on hue saturation and just desaturating, click on that one more time, and for this one we're gonna add a colorize effect and bring in some blue into the background. We're gonna do this for two reasons. One is it will actually help to illustrate a point when I talk about the masking, and then two, it will just give…

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