From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Adjustment Layers and Nesting
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Masking your effect - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Adjustment Layers and Nesting
Masking your effect
- In this movie, we are going to use masks for our effects so that the effect affects only a part of the clip and not the whole thing. Please open sequence 3-6 from the project panel. This is a clip from the colonial city in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and what I want to do is make the sky a little bit more dramatic in this shot. So I'm going to go ahead and increase the saturation and add an S curve to the clip. So, go under Basic Correction and increase the saturation of the clip. Now, we can go into the curves, and in the luma curve, we can add a shallow S curve to make the colors more dramatic. Now what is happening is that when you make these colors and these contrasts more dramatic, we're also affecting this building here, which happens to have been Columbus' house when he lived there. We can't really do that, we just want to make the sky more contrasting and dramatic. So let's go ahead and increase this to a lot more and let's see what happens. Yeah, the one that is…
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