Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 guide

Applying auto quality enhancements

Premiere Elements provides a number of effects that enable you to quickly enhance the quality of a clip.

• Auto Color adjusts color levels and contrast, limiting the overall range of black and white pixels. It can

quickly improve many clips.

• Auto Contrast sharpens the overall contrast—the difference between light and dark colors—without

introducing or removing color casts.

• Auto Levels automatically reduces both highlights and shadows. That is, it makes light areas slightly darker

and dark areas slightly lighter. Auto Levels adjusts each color channel individually. In some cases, it may

add a slight tint to a clip. You can remove this tint by undoing the effect.

All effects are reversible, so if you don’t like the results of an effect, you can remove the effect at any point.

To apply Auto Color, Auto Contrast, or Auto Levels:

1. Click the Edit tab in the Tasks panel.

2. Click the Effects button.

The Effects view opens. Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and

Auto Levels appear in the top row of effects

(Figure 26).

3. Click Auto Contrast to select it.

4. Click the Apply button to apply the effect.

Observe that the clip changes slightly and that Auto

Contrast appears next to the clip preview in the Edit

workspace (Figure 27). If you are pleased with the

change, save the file.

5. To remove the effect at any time, click the applied effect

in the Edit workspace and click the Delete icon.

Figure 26 Effects view

Figure 27 List of applied effects

Effects applied