Add Photoshop's Color Balance Tool to Premiere

[davidtracey]

I love how precise the Color Balance tool in Photoshop is, how you can adjust shadows, midtones and highlights with exact number values. I wish there was a way to do this in Premiere; the RGB curves, color wheels and other grading tools are not as intuitive or easily adjustable in my experience.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @davidtracey,

Thanks for the feature request. I hope the developer team will respond shortly. I up voted.

Cheers,
Kevin

[davidtracey]

Awesome, thanks!

[davidtracey]

Hey, has anyone else looked at this since I posted it? This would make color grading a whole lot easier.

[R Neil Haugen]

As someone with both years with Photoshop professionally and a decade in video post specializing in color modifications, yes I have a few comments. 


Everyone coming to video from stills work still thinks it's the same thing. I certainly did!


It isn't. Two major things, first ... Photoshop is built to run 1 image through the computer. An NLE is running at least 24 images per second through the computer's processing capabilities.


The loads are completely different by several orders of magnitude. Therefore the tools cannot use the same math or processing coding or structure.

Second, matching images is needed in video work, between images with entirely different hue and tonal characteristics. When I'm working, yes, I'll copy/paste to get images from the same camera settings to something.

But what I set those to has nothing to do with any other clips on the sequence. The numbers are then completely irrelevant. 

What is of great use?

SCOPES. 

I always work to the scopes! Waveform in YC no Luma, Vectorscope, and RGB Parade. And that is how video color is most commonly handled.

All the best with your request, as of course ... that might be useful in certain workflows. Why not have it?

But with experience one might find, as I did ... that Photoshop and Lightroom just didn't have as much relevance as I was certain they did.

Everyone's mileage always varies.