• Adobe After Effects

  Is it possible to change the saturation using the curves adjustment?

  Posted by David Adler on January 15, 2018 at 7:57 pm

  I’m curious if this is possible, and if yes, how to do it. How to change the saturation of an image/video by only using the Curves effect?

  Kevin Camp replied 8 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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• 

  Tero Ahlfors

  January 15, 2018 at 8:10 pm

  What are you trying to accomplish?
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  Kevin Camp

  January 15, 2018 at 8:16 pm

  use a channel combiner sandwich…

  add the channel combiner effect to a layer. by default it’s set to cover the footage from RGB to HLS (hue, lightness, saturation) and the image looks crazy… duplicate that effect and set the ‘from’ value to hls to rgb. this converts it back to RGB and everything should look normal.

  so what’s the point….

  now you can add any effect that can separate RGb channels in-between the channel combiner effects and instead of effecting RGB, the controls will effect HLS. any control that effect ‘red’ will now effect hue, ‘green’ controls are now lightness (or luminance) and ‘blue’ controls are now saturation.

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
  KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

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