From the course: Creating a Short Film: 11 Color Grading

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Working with shadows and highlights

Working with shadows and highlights - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 11 Color Grading

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Working with shadows and highlights

- One colossally important aspect of color grading is tweaking the brightest parts of the image, referred to as the highlights, and the darkest parts of the image, referred to as the shadows. The highlights and shadows control the tone and contrast of the entire image and are usually the very first thing I adjust when coloring a clip. Note that it's very easy to destroy little details in the shadows and highlights without even realizing it until you preview your fill on another device. This is one of the big reasons to use the scopes we'll be looking at later in this course. Bright skies, for example, we'll often have subtle details and light clouds, but if you're not careful, when you lighten the whole clip, you could accidentally force all of those bright gray values to pure white. This is called blowing out the highlights. You know, sometimes this is a necessary evil, and I realize that I have a huge personal bias…

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