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How can I adjust just one color in a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro? - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: How Do I Do That in Premiere Pro

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How can I adjust just one color in a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro?

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- Sometimes as you work with a shot, you'll feel like one or two colors are problematic. Maybe the grass needs to be greener, the sky bluer. Well, with the curves, it's really easy to target these for refinement. Let's take a look at two examples. In this case, I felt like the sky was kind of washed out and the colors weren't quite there but with a little fix, we're able to really bring back lifelike color. You'll notice that was done using a series of curves adjustments. Now I did it pretty elaborately but it's not that hard if you break it down. Let's start with some basic adjustments. Recover the highlights, put a little contrast in, lift the shadows. Not bad. Now what I want to do is bring out the colors. So with curves, we're going to say hue versus saturation. Click on the blue and just increase the saturation of the blue. If needed, you can scroll this and add a couple of control points to put in more blue. If you want to darken the blue, just use hue versus luma. Again click on the blue and if needed, add more points and you can refine and transform the blue. Let's do the green. Hue versus saturation. Click on the green and I'm going to bring out more green just holding on the shift key as I drag up. Let's do the same for a little bit more red in the tree trunk. There we go. I like it. Using hue versus luma, I'll just add some control points here in the greens and lift up to brighten the green trees. Easy enough. Plus with these global curves, we can make a change, luma versus saturation. So in the real bright areas, let's get more color. In the real dark areas, let's get less color or more. And notice there how we restored saturation in the highlights and shadows but left the midtones relatively alone. Or we can say from fully saturated to less saturated, let's ramp that saturation up as you get to the end here like such, letting us really control the distribution with a Brilla custom vibrance adjustment. It's pretty amazing. We'll fill in the vignette there and feather and that's such a huge transformation in the color and proper exposure. Now let's take a look at another example. This one's a little simpler. Our iguana is basically lost in the trees but we can bring him out. This is by dealing with contrast ratios. So, with our curves, let's do hue versus luma. Select the green. I'll select a little more and just darken down the leaves. And because things that get darker tend to be more saturated, we'll just strip out a little bit of saturation there in the greens. Hue versus hue, let's me transform the hue and now hue versus saturation will let me take a little bit out, making it less saturated. And for the iguana themselves, we'll just click on the reds here and make that area more saturated and perhaps a little brighter. And look at how it targets just that change. It's really quite amazing. Remember, this level of flexibility goes a long way letting you refine the transformation. Plus you still have control of things like highlights and contrast. In this case, by de-emphasizing the trees and emphasizing the iguana, we've really brought him to life so he's more discoverable. A little vignette with a gentle feather and refine the midpoint, and your eyes clearly know where to look. Before. After. Notice by targeting the different zones of color, we're able to aesthetically manipulate the shot and really bring our subject to life.

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