Selective Color Correction

[Darby Edelen]

Wow, looking at the footage I think you are in for roto-scope hell =O

I was going to suggest finding a color channel in which the horse is whiter than the surrounding environment and then using levels on that channel to create a (quick and dirty) matte that you could then blur a bit (if the horse is going to be glowy anyway) and apply to the footage. Effectively you could then color correct the horse and the background seperately, but the color looks nearly identical in the horse and in the person next to it (I don’t know what the surrounding environment looks like, I was hoping for green grass and a blue sky so you could use the red channel).

I don’t think that technique will work if the color pallette is so limited… get out your pen tool there good buddy =)

[Ramil]

yeah… this is going to take a week at least.

“but the color looks nearly identical in the horse and in the person next to it ”

What if I color correct first the image – remove the warm tones of the footage? Could I then apply the one you suggested wuzelwazel?

Anyway I already resigned myself to a week long work in this 30-second TVC so might as well get started.

Thanks a lot for the Inputs though. – wuzelwazel and Dave.

[Darby Edelen]

[ramil] ”
What if I color correct first the image – remove the warm tones of the footage? Could I then apply the one you suggested wuzelwazel?”

I don’t think this would be very helpful as whatever you apply to the image will affect both the horse and the person bringing you back to square one.

You could make the horse and the person blue, but then they’d both be blue… how do you separate one from the other?