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I tried to use the Secondary Color Correction to adjust the color of the sky, changing from a gloomy sky to a blue sky. The Secondary Color Correction is able to work on a portion of the image. Like this clip, I just want change the sky color, so I need to make a selection of this sky. At first, I clicked the triangle of Secondary Color Correction before I chose the picker where it says center choose, this way can select the area you want to change by using the eye dropper or eye dropper plus. Then a white, grey and black image came up when I clicked the Show Mask. The white part just shows your selection. And I “push-pull” the sliders of Saturation, Luma, Hue many times to get the result I want. Finally, I adjusted the Shadows, Midtones and Highlights by using the Three-Way Color Corrector after turning off the Mask.
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I also used same method that I mentioned before to change the building color, but I think I didn’t control this color correction very well, particularly in the adjustment of this building shadows, midtones and highlights.
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I still used Secondary Color Correction to adjust my face color, but it looks not very well, my face is so brighter than before. I just want to remove my eye dark circle, now it may work in this image, but other parts of my face become brighter.
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I also tried to brighten the background color. It’s more colorful than before, especially showing in the green tree and grass.
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In this clip, I tried to make the image in different tones, from cooler color to warm color, by using the Three-way Color Corrector. Also, I clicked the Show Split View to see the contrast between before and after the color grade in the same image. Like this,
Split view
I think that if you want to get a satisfied result, you will adjust the color grade of a clip thousands times.
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