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Color correcting with neutrals

Color correcting with neutrals - SilverFast Tutorial

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Color correcting with neutrals

In this movie, I'd like to show you how to take neutrals in an image and use those for correcting the color inside the image. We set the stage for this whole concept of using neutrals for correcting color when we did our target base correction. There we established the whole principle that color is based upon grayscale. Therefore if you get the grayscale correct, the color is going to be correct. Here, instead of having a target in the image, we are actually going to try to find neutrals that are in our image and then correct those neutrals thereby correcting the color. So let's dive right in. Let's go ahead and magnify this image, so we can get a better view of it. The first thing that we are going to do is evaluate our image. Well, when I look at an image, one of the first things I look for is I ask myself; is there any sort of a neutral highlight? Well, the first thing that we see here is that we have got some reflections here. So we probably have a specular highlight here. Then I…

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