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Use Mask Tracker for color correction

Use Mask Tracker for color correction - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX

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Use Mask Tracker for color correction

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- In this lesson I'm going to demonstrate a very standard adjustment that a colorist makes to a shot that compositors often don't but probably should. I'm reasonably happy with my basic adjustment here. The selections aren't perfect and everything's not just the way it should be, but the basic balance between exterior and interior seems okay to me. However, if I squint my eyes I really notice something very clearly which is that the background and foreground stand out a lot more than the actual talent, the person in the shot who is in fact the focus. So that background really pops behind her. And even though we do notice her there she does not currently pop. Now to fix this I'm going to use the mouse tracker and I'm going to do it in a way that colorists would do whether they're in After Effects or another piece of software. So to start I'll just create an ellipse mask. Now be careful, I've got a shape layer. So select the layer first. And then just draw a mask... right around the…

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