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Getting a little more detail with an RGB Parade
From the course: Digital Media Foundations
Getting a little more detail with an RGB Parade
- [Instructor] An RGB parade works in a very similar way to a waveform with one important difference. Each of the colors, red, green, and blue, are displayed in their own waveform side-by-side. To fit three waveforms into the same space, each one is compressed horizontally into 1/3 of the graph. When I first saw an RGP parade, I couldn't understand why the image was broken into three, and it was someone explaining that it's the same image crushed horizontally that unlocked the technology for me. The benefit of an RGB parade is that it gives more detail on where the brighter and darker parts of your picture lie. If you have a lot of pixels that are the same color and brightness, you'll get a flat line in the waveform. The pixels can all bunch up together in the display, telling you there's a really flat area in the picture. In the RGB parade, you get a breakdown of the levels for each color, and this can be a great way to gauge if there's a color cast in your image. In this example…
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