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Creating the sepia look effect

Creating the sepia look effect - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Creating the sepia look effect

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- The sepia effect is about making everything in your video look yellowish and desaturated, almost like an old photograph. Go ahead and open the sequence 4-2 and take a look at the first clip. This is the shot again of the Colonial City in the Dominican Republic, and we're going to give this a sepia effect. So, let's go ahead and add an adjustment layer to this. So from the Project panel, I drag it, I elongate it, and there you go. With it selected, I'm going to adjust my settings in the Lumetric Color panel, Make this a little bit bigger, and I'm going to do so using the Curves. As we saw in the previous movie, if I make the reds a little bit more prominent, the greens more prominent, but not as much as the red, and then I bring the blues down, I start getting a little bit of a yellowish sepia toning that I can complete by simply desaturating my clip a little bit. Now what I want to do with this is a little bit different, so in fact, I'm going to go ahead and reset the whole Lumetric…

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