Better tool than “Brightness and Contrast?”

[John Rofrano]

You should be using Color Curves instead of the primitive Brightness and Contrast tool. It gives you lots more control. You can use a Mask to only affect part the frame with an effect. You can also use the Secondary Color Corrector to only affect certain colors in a frame.

~jr

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[Pat Adams]

Thank you John. I have fiddled with those tools, but without much success. I’ll check for a tutorial on this site.

[John Rofrano]

For Color Curves you want to start by making an ‘S’ and adjusting from there. You can double-click on the curve to create another point and really target what is affected but I fond that most of the time, a simple ‘S’ is all that’s needed.

There are lots of great tutorials here on the COW for some of the others.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Pat Adams]

Off to give it a try. Thanks!