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February 7, 2018
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Is it possible to ignore a colour range on an adjustment layer effect?

  • February 7, 2018
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Hi All

I have an adjustment layer that I wish to adjust certain blues in a rapidly changing CGI video, I have this looking right using a "Color Balance" effect but I now want that same adjustment layer to ignore a specific grey in the background. 

How is this done?

Many thanks

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    R Neil Haugen
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    February 7, 2018

    I'd use the Lumetri controls on the AL, using the HSL tab to create a "secondary" correction. Using the mouse, click the eyedropper + icon, then in the monitor, click & drag across the blues you want to effect. Setting the mask to say gray/color, adjust the three sliders of Hue, Saturation, and Luminance until the blues you want to change are all affected, and use some gradation out on the controls to keep from getting a hard edge to the selection. Add a titch of blur to it.

    Then in the controls down below, use either the color wheels or the temp/tint controls to push the blues selected somewhere else. Color wheels ... you can either use one that moves everything light to dark, or click the little three-overlapped circles to get the shadow/mids/highlight set, and push towards whatever blue hue you want in whichever value range you want to effect.

    Temp/tint controls work more to the highlight down into mids range.

    Neil

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    February 7, 2018

    Hi Neil,

    Thanks for the reply.  Will try that out, sounds a much more flexible effect with the secondary correction.

    Thanks

    Geoff