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Using masks to make secondary corrections

Using masks to make secondary corrections - SpeedGrade Tutorial

From the course: Learning SpeedGrade

Using masks to make secondary corrections

Earlier in this chapter, we took a look at making a secondary correction by using a key. In this movie, I want to show you another way that you can make a secondary correction here in Adobe SpeedGrade, and that's by using a mask. A mask allows you to isolate an object or something else onscreen by using a geometric shape. And once you've isolated it, you can then go back and refine the contrast and color within that shape. So let's begin here by playing back this clip and seeing what we got. All right, this is a pretty straight forward shot, guy working on his guitar. But the one thing I notice is that his face over here, kind of gets lost in the shadow of this dark room. Now I should mention that I've actually already gone ahead and performed the primary correction on this shot, that is a correction that affects the entire image. And what I did was I deepen the blacks and I neutralized a little bit of yellow colorcast. And I did that with this Primary layer right here. On my…

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