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Color overlay

- [Instructor] Now previously we talked about how to make a really, really bold silhouette using a lot of colors and trying to get every color of the rainbow in there. And then we covered what happens when we push it too far. Now what would happen if we wanted to do a bold color but we want it to be almost monochromatic? We wanted it to be the dominant color of the image. There's two ways we can go about this, well three ways actually. One of them is we can just adjust the white balance. And we get a pretty great color gradient but I want one color and this is giving me a range of colors. I'm getting the blue and the purple and the pink, so that's not quite what I'm looking for. So let's bring that back to where it was. Let's look maybe... There we go. That's close to where it was. So we've got this silhouette here. It's got some color going on, not too much. Now there's two places we can do something called a color overlay. We can either do it down here in the split toning panel. We…

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