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Balancing color with color wheels

Balancing color with color wheels

- If you've been working with color correction for a long time or with other applications, you might have used color wheels. These allow you to introduce color cast into the shadows, midtones and highlights to neutralize any issues or to stylize your footage. Earlier, we looked at tint color wheels in the creative section. But these are more corrective in nature. Let's go into the project here and we'll open up our last sequence in this bin, 4.4. In this case, we're going to balance the color. You can see that this one has a very different look than here. Now, it's subtle and it's up to you how far you push it. But I want it to cool down the whites and get richer skin tones. Well, let's take a look at those color wheels. Color wheels are a classic adjustment allowing you to effect shadows, midtones and highlights as well as adjusting the relative exposure of each of those sections. Let's start with the unaffected shot. I notice in this case that the midtones need a little bit of work.…

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