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Lesson 12 Performing Primary ColorCorrections
10 Keep making small adjustments to the red, green, and blue Gamma bars until the
RGBvalues are nearly even.
After making critical adjustments, it’s good to compare your changes to the original shot.
11 Choose View > Bypass All Grades, or press Shift-D, to see the original image; and then
press Shift-D again to view your corrected clip.
With these adjustments, the image now has a much better neutral balance and contrast. You
did that quickly. Rarely do you set a control once, compare it to the original, and move on.
Color correction is an iterative process—adjust, compare, adjust, compare. It takes time; but
just like cooking or gardening, the more you explore, the more you find what works best.
Balancing with the Additional
PrimaryControls
The additional primary adjustments located under the master wheels can also be used
tobalance a shot. Although they do not have the precision or flexibility of the primaries
controls, they do have a more familiar and direct approach.
1 Click clip 09 to move to that shot.
2 In the adjustments strip, click 2 to show the second page of adjustments.
3 Drag the Shadows value to the left to slightly darken the shadows, and placing the
bottom of the green trace just below the 128 line.