It is Tuesday, so let's get creative with some filmmaking tips and tricks!
My name is Jordy for cinecom.net...
...and today we're covering five color grading hacks...
...that you can do inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
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The first color grading trick!
If you shot something with an off white balance,
then you can fix that through the White Balance slider.
But that doesn't always give you the proper results.
Usually your highlights and shadows will look too orange or too blue.
So what you can do is navigate to the color wheels...
...and push the opposite color into the shadows and highlights.
Try to make your shadows look black and your highlights white.
This will give you a more natural white balance adjustment.
The next trick is a way to remove ugly digital noise in your shots.
And if you're going to shoot in a low light situation and need to crank up your ISO,
chances are that you're going to see these dancing colored pixels.
There are noise reduction tools, but if you don't have that,
then here's a quick way to reduce that noise.
Most of the noise is visible in your shadows, so...
...let’s start off by selecting the shadows only.
You can do that from the HSL Secondary.
You wanna select the entire color spectrum and the saturation first.
Then only select the first range of the lightness.
Look at your shot and make sure that no colors are selected,
but only the absolute shadows.
Once you got that right, you can decrease the saturation.
And that will remove that weird green- magenta cast you always see in digital noise,
making it slightly look better than what we had before.
The next color grading trick!
Sometimes you only want to adjust one specific part of a scene,
for example the face of a walking person to draw more attention to the subject.
What you can then do is head into the Effects Controls,
locate Lumetri and click on the Pen tool underneath.
And that allows you to draw a mask around your desired subject.
Now you can do your favorite color grading on that part.
But to make the mask less visible, you wanna feather it as well.
And if your subject is moving, simply click the Play button under the Mask Path...
...to let it track with the movement.
And this brings us to color grading trick number 4.
If you have created an awesome grading and love to share that with your friends,
then you can locate a simple menu on top of the Lumetri panel...
...to save your settings as a LUT.
I would suggest picking the Cube format.
That will save your color grading into a file, which you can share with anyone.
Now, to load your color grading back into Lumetri,
you can click on Look under the Creative tab, and chose Custom.
Then just locate your Cube file and bang! It applies to your shot.
Now, to have your LUTs permanently inside your looks,
then you have to locate the Premiere Pro installation folder,
go to Lumetri, open LUTs and then Creative.
In this folder you wanna add your custom LUTs.
The next time you then open up Premiere Pro, you'll see your LUT in the list as well.
And for the last color grading trick,
we're going to give some more punch to the clouds with a very simple technique.
I'm going to start off by drawing a mask around the sky and feathering it.
This allows me to solely grade the upper part of the shot.
And to add more punch to it, I wanna lower the exposure except for the highlights.
And the easiest way to do that is by diving into the Curves.
You wanna create a deep arch by moving two points, like this.
And that will make the sky darker.
Now simply pull a tiny bit on the highlight...
...so that you can create a curve that looks like this.
Just make sure not to over do it.
That will give a lot more punch to the sky, making it look a bit more dramatic.
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
And like always...
...stay creative!
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