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Color correction: Fixing and enhancing color

Color correction: Fixing and enhancing color - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Color correction: Fixing and enhancing color

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- Color correction and color grading are crucial phases of the post-production process, although for beginners, these steps are often overlooked. Let's talk about why they're so important. First, color correction. Really, much of it is just about correcting the image so that it matches what we would naturally see with the human eye. After all, there are countless cameras, lighting conditions, and production environments, each of which can alter the look of recorded images. So it's during post-production that you go back through each shot and perform those corrections. This is a fairly methodical, multi-step process where you first correct the shot's contrast, or light and dark values, then you correct the shot's color balance issues, so the shot doesn't contain an unwanted color cast, and then you correct the shot's saturation, where you adjust the intensity of color within the shot. So you can take a look at the shot…

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