selecting color inputs in curves

[Kevin Camp]

are you talking about adding eyedropper points on the image at specific locations (they look like eyedropper cursors but with a number next to it), or setting black, white and midtone values with the associated black, white or midtone eyedropper from the ps curves?

although, in either case, no… the curves and levels adjustments in ae are weak compared to photoshop.

you can link up color values to the levels adjustment using expressions and a few color expression controls (from effects>expression controls), or you can try stu maschwitz’s rebel cc preset in which he has linked those together and added other functionality to make it more like the photoshop levels adjustment. maltaannon has a cool pixel sampler preset that may be of some use, if linking colors to levels will work for you. but i can’t think of a way to get color sample data into ae curves.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

not sure if this workflow would be any use to you… but, you can bring a frame into ps, use the ps curves and it’s features to create you curves, then save the curves data (option in the curves settings). then, you can import the ps curves data from ae’s curves settings window.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Lukas M.]

yes that is exactly how i have done it. it works well but is a pretty circuitous workaround compared to ps.
i was just wondering if i could do it any better.
but thanks a lot, i appreciate your answers.
lukas

[Kevin Camp]

if you do a lot of color correcting in ae, you might want to learn the color finesse effect that is bundled with ae. it has better color tools (well, compared to what comes free with ae). but it doesn’t resemble any color correcting tools in ps, so it is more of a ‘starting over’ type learning curve.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW