Operation Manual

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Applying transitions and special effects
Last updated 10/4/2016
Brightness & Contrast
The Brightness & Contrast effect adjusts the brightness and contrast of the entire clip. The value 0.0 indicates that no
change is made.
Using the Brightness & Contrast effect is the easiest way to make simple adjustments to the tonal range of the clip. It
adjusts all pixel values in the clip at once—highlights, shadows, and midtones. Brightness & Contrast does not work on
individual color channels.
Channel Mixer
Every clip in Premiere Elements is composed from three color channels: red, green, and blue. Each channel contains
the luminance values for its respective color. Using the Channel Mixer effect, you can add the values from any of these
channels to any of the other channels, for example, adding the luminance values from the green channel into the red
channel. Use this effect to make creative color adjustments not easily achieved with the other color adjustment tools.
Create high-quality grayscale clips by choosing the percentage of the grayscale contributed by each color channel,
create high-quality sepia-tone or other tinted clips, and swap or duplicate channels. You could use this effect, for
example, to entirely replace a noisy blue channel with values taken from, say, a clean green channel.
Each of the properties for the Channel Mixer is labeled with a pair of color names. The word to the left of each hyphen
names the property’s output channel; the word to the right names its input channel. For example, the Red-Green
property has the red channel as its output and the green channel as its input. You can use it to add the luminance values
of the green channel to the red channel.