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Introducing Adobe SpeedGrade CS6
Powerful layer-based color grading
With SpeedGrade CS6, color corrections, masks, and filters are
applied as layers, making it easy to use simple elements to
build up and make adjustments to complex grades. You can
add, remove, combine, and rearrange grades and effects, and
adjust the influence of each layer with its own opacity slider.
In one scene, you might apply a soft bleach bypass for a
desaturated, high-contrast effect along with a subtle blue cast
for the whole frame, and then add a mask with a warmer tone
around your subject to highlight a character. You can apply
secondary grades to color ranges within the frame to draw the
eye to important elements within the frame or to blend parts of
the image into their surroundings.
Save grades as .Look files, including all layers and settings, so it
can be reused and modified for different shots or projects.
Grading tracks on the Timeline provide another way to apply
.Looks, or grading elements such as masks or grading transitions. This is a great way to create visual
continuity across scenes or whole projects in tandem with the clip-specific color corrections.
Masks are part of the layer structure and can be positioned as easily as any other layer, so that
color corrections are applied to the areas inside, or outside, your mask. In SpeedGrade CS6, mask
feathering allows for infinite falloff: You can determine with precision how one area of the image
flows into the other, or apply vignettes to the whole frame that are as bold, or as subtle, as the
story requires.
Layer-based color grading is where SpeedGrade shows its power—and where your storytelling
comes alive. Apply as many corrections and effects as you need to get the shot right. All
adjustments are automatically combined in the Lumetri Deep Color Engine and processed as a
single operation, for optimum performance, even with complex grades.
Primaries and secondaries
Primarycolorcorrectionsare
appliedtothewholeimage—for
example,tochangethecastofa
sceneorawholelm.Secondary
colorcorrectionsareadjustmentsto
speciccolorranges.SpeedGrade
CS6allowsyoutodeneavery
narrowcolorrangeforasecondary,
forexample,toemphasizeaspecic
elementintheimage,forexample
skintones.Youcanalsousebroader
secondarycolorranges,suchas
whenyouwanttoshowcasetherich
greensinaforestorthebeautiful
redshadesofasunset.
Apply primary color corrections to the
whole frame in combination with
eects and secondary grades for
selected color ranges.
Create and modify mask shapes with intuitive drawing tools and the interactive mask widget. You can track and animate
masks and control feathering with precision.