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    Selectively Lighten Area

    Posted by Louis Shula on December 21, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Hi Everyone,

    I have a clip I need to fix which I could do with advice on.

    Is there a way to selectively lighten part of a moving object?

    What makes it more difficult is that the object I want to lighten is shot against a light black background which I need to make pure black.

    I have done this by increasing the contrast of the clip. But this has had the result of darkening the object too much in places.

    I have tried playing around with the colour settings in Premiere and I have tried painstakingly masking out the background in After Effects but nothing has really worked satisfactorily.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Many thanks!

    Louis Shula replied 14 years, 4 months ago 62,242 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Louis Shula

    December 21, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks a lot Dave

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