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Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?

Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction? - SpeedGrade Tutorial

From the course: Learning Speedgrade CC 2014

Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?

In this movie we're going to be talking about, secondary corrections and how to perform them in SpeedGrade? And I thought we'd start off with a little introduction as to the nomenclature, what is a secondary correction? And colorists call anything where you're isolating a section of the image and doing something to it, they tend to call that a secondary correction. It's usually what you do after you do your initial primary, balancing out the image and setting your contrast. It can be anything from applying a mask to pulling keys. And the result, the goal of a secondary correction is two fold. One, you're either fixing a very specific problem on a part of the image, not on the entire image. Or you're looking to achieve a very specific creative goal. We're going to be talking about in this chapter masks, which can be applied to both Primary Layers and Secondary Layers. We're also going to be talking about keying, hue, saturation, luminance, all three together or some combination, to…

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