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NOTE To reset the trackball, channel, and luminance levels, select the Reset
button below the trackball or the Reset button in Tool Options area on the
right side of the UI (this button resets the entire tool).
Color Correcting with CC Basics
The CC Basics UI contains the controls used to perform color correction. CC
Basics lets you:
■ Color correct shadows, midtones, and highlights separately or together
■ Rewire the red, green, or blue channels of an image
■ Set the hue, saturation, or contrast of an image
■ Set the color balance
■ Set the red, green, blue, or RGB channels by modifying the gamma, gain,
and offset values for the channel
■ Match colors
■ Perform color suppression
NOTE Many of the CC Basics fields are animatable attributes—see Setting Keys
Manually
on page 676 and Validating and Applying the Expression String on page
729.
Determining the Sequence of Corrections
After you have analyzed the image, it is important to determine what sequence
to use to make the color corrections. Some corrections may interfere with
previous adjustments that you have made, or change results that were
satisfactory. In general, you should not set saturation before applying
modifications to the hue, as hue shift affects the saturation value.
For predictable results, perform color corrections in the following sequence:
■ Correct the hue color balance
■ Correct the light and dark areas of the image using gamma, gain, offset,
and contrast
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