Color Correction for Video, 2nd Edition

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SECONDARY COLOR CORRECTION

 

The previous chapter discussed the tools available to do Primary corrections, in other words, those that affect the overall balance and tone of the entire image or raster. Oftentimes it is necessary for even further control of specific regions of the picture. Color corrections that affect only a specific region or vector of an image are called Secondary corrections. There are two parts to making a Secondary color correction. The first is to qualify the area you want to affect and the second is to affect it in some way. There are a number of ways to qualify an area of the image to work on:

• Selected based on a specific luminance by creating a luma matte, (Figure 6-2 )
• Selected based on a color vector by creating ...