Specifications

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Introducing Color Correction
To measure a color via the Color Match controls:
1. In the upper-right corner of the Color Correction tool, hover the pointer
over one of the Color Match control boxes until the pointer becomes
an eyedropper. Drag to the image.
2. Navigate to the part of the image you want to sample (a white, black,
or neutral gray area).
3. Release the mouse button.
The color is sampled, and the red, green, and blue values of the
selected color appear in the Color Match control box. Use this infor-
mation to determine how you may need to tweak the color to achieve
color neutrality.
Adjusting Hue and Saturation Values
Using the ChromaWheels
ChromaWheels are used not only for removing color casts but also for
adjusting chroma values—such as hue and saturation—and particularly for
changing chroma values related to flesh tones.
Adjusting the hue and saturation values for image flesh tones is a simple
but important step, because the human eye is extremely sensitive to accu-
rate skin tonality. If flesh tones are too muddy, dim, or bright, a viewer’s
perception of an on-screen character can be compromised.
Fortunately, Media Composer offers an easy, manual method for adjusting
flesh-tone chroma values with ChromaWheel adjustments: the flesh tone
line, which is located directly between the yellow and red areas of the
ChromaWheel and, the Vectorscope.
Flesh tone line Flesh tone line
Human flesh tones should reside along the invisible line between the yellow and red
values on the color wheel (shown on both the Vectorscope and the ChromaWheel).
Often, you will need to drag the crosshair of the Midtones ChromaWheel to bring the
flesh tone values more in line with this specific area of the Vectorscope.
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