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Increasing contrast

Increasing contrast

Another color-related property that you'll probably want to adjust frequently is Contrast, basically how strong the brights are and how strong the darks are. In this clip, we already have great natural contrast. We have our biker here, contrasted with this kind of a sunset-y-looking colored background. Again, there is good contrast here, but we could still see parts of what our biker is wearing here. I think this will look even more awesome, if there was increased contrast. So we're going to go to Video Effects in the Effects panel. We're going to open up Color Correction, and we're going to drag and drop Brightness & Contrast onto our clip here. To increase Contrast, all we have to do is go to the Effect Controls panel, open up the controls for Brightness & Contrast and take the Contrast value and increase it. As we increase it, you could see increased contrast here. That's looking pretty good. If it starts to get a little bit too dark, we could increase the Brightness to kind of…

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