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Using the Color Adjustment effect

Using the Color Adjustment effect - Camtasia Tutorial

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Using the Color Adjustment effect

- [Instructor] Now, the color adjustment effect is going to be your go-to effect for fixing exposure issues in your webcam or your live action footage. Now, here's a short clip that looks completely washed out. Let's fix that with a color adjustment effect. And when the effect is first applied, it creates this highly stylized black and white look that 99 times out of 100 is not the look you're going to be going for. So always begin by first resetting each of these settings to zero. You can use the Tab key to jump between the fields so you don't have to mouse around quite so much. I'll type in zero, enter Tab a couple of times, hit zero, Tab a couple of times, zero again, and Tab one more time. Now, begin making subtle adjustments. Now, the main thing we need to add back into this shot is some contrast. So let's start there. Slowly add contrast in until the image has a bit more pop to it. Right around 41 looks pretty good. Now, let's bring back a little life into this shot by adding a…

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