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Genuine colour grading approaches without the use of plugins?
Hi Guys
Can any one give me any key starting pointers for colour grading. I like many others always jump into the depend with plugins to achieve certain looks, and in many respects i kinda feel im cheating. Im not looking for any books as such, but just using AE’s on colour filters to get different looks. As there are so many colour-esqe filters, can any one recommend where i can start? Levels? Brightness and contrast etc?
This is just a general colour qeuery, im not currently looking for a specific look and feel.
Thanks for your time
Gus -
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First make sure you have Color Finesse installed (Free with AE 6.5 and 7) and use that. It’s a modern color corrector. AE only has old school Photoshop-like coloring tools. But if you don’t use color finesse, you can just stack a hue/sat with a curves and do it all there. Use the hue sat to control the saturation and the RGB curve for your levels and the individual color channel curves (Red, Green, Blue) for your hue offsets.
Chris Smith
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hi
i use hue/saturation, levels , curves.. shadow/highlight for color grading …
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Thanks very much for your advice guys, Im taking them all on board.
Much appreciated!
Gus
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Also don’t forget you can do some pretty useful secondary colour correction with Hue/Sat by working with individual colour ranges – ie remapping dead yellow grass to green or turning up the saturation of a blue sky
You also may want to check out Stu Maschwitz’s free animation preset – Rebel CC
https://prolost.blogspot.com/2006/10/rebel-cc.html
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