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673Final Cut Pro User Guide
7. Click the Type pop-up menu and choose one of the following:
• 3D: Creates a color mask that lets you add or remove surrounding colors by dragging
the Softness slider.
• HSL: Creates a color mask that lets you adjust hue, saturation, and luma values
independently.
For more information about each mask type, see
Edit color masks in Final Cut Pro.
8. In the viewer, position the eyedropper on a color in the image that you want to isolate,
then drag to select the color.
As you drag the eyedropper, a circle appears. The size of the circle determines the
range of color that is included in the color mask. As you change the circle size, the
image becomes monochrome except for the color you’re selecting. You can drag a new
selection circle as many times as you like to try for better results.
Note: When you stop dragging, you see the effects of the color mask as soon as you
start making adjustments in the color correction effect.
If you chose the HSL mask type you can also make the initial color selection using the
HSL controls. See Edit an HSL color mask with hue, saturation, and luma controls.
9. Do one of the following:
• Apply a color correction to the selected color: Click Inside.
• Apply a color correction to everything except the selected color: Click Outside.
You can make corrections to both the inside and outside areas of the mask—each area
effectively has its own complete set of color correction controls. For example, you could
click Inside to enhance the targeted color, and then click Outside to darken everything
else.
As with any other masked clip effect, you can also invert (flop) the masked and
unmasked areas of the color mask. See
Invert effect masks in Final Cut Pro.
10. To correct the color isolated by the mask, adjust the controls of the color correction
effect in the Color inspector.
For more information about the manual color correction effects, see Intro to color
correction effects in Final Cut Pro.
To adjust the color selection in the color mask, you can edit the mask. To limit the area of
the image affected by a color mask, you can add one or more shape masks.