Skip to Content
The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X, 3rd Edition
book

The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X, 3rd Edition

by Rick Young
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
442 pages
14h 32m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X, 3rd Edition
COLOR CORRECTION
352
Curves
For those familiar with
Photoshop and other image
editing software, manipulating
luminance and color using
Curves is an established and
effective way of working.
Curves in Final Cut Pro X can
be broken into distinct areas:
(i) Luminance—which
covers highlights (whites),
midtones and shadows
(blacks).
(ii) Below luminance ar
e three
separate color channels.
While these are set to
red, green, and blue, in
practice you will defi ne the
colors you wish to adjust.
Each Curve can be br
oken
into thr
ee separate areas as
illustrated below:
Shadows
Midtones
Highlights
The Curve is effectively a graph
from left to right, showing ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Java® and Mac OS® X

Java® and Mac OS® X

T. Gene Davis

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781351686617