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3.5 Color Grading

Color grading is the process of adjusting the color of images to achieve a desired style or elicit certain emotions. Common color associations include warm reds and oranges for romantic scenes, and cool blues and teals for action scenes. In Premiere Pro, color grading can be done through preset Lumetri looks or custom adjustments like adding color casts using the fast color correction effect on an adjustment layer spanning multiple clips. Advanced software like SpeedGrade and DaVinci Resolve offer additional grading controls.

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3.5 Color Grading

Color grading is the process of adjusting the color of images to achieve a desired style or elicit certain emotions. Common color associations include warm reds and oranges for romantic scenes, and cool blues and teals for action scenes. In Premiere Pro, color grading can be done through preset Lumetri looks or custom adjustments like adding color casts using the fast color correction effect on an adjustment layer spanning multiple clips. Advanced software like SpeedGrade and DaVinci Resolve offer additional grading controls.

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3.

5 COLOR GRADING

Color Grading is the process of changing the color of images to suit your style and
taste. This is a creative process that is completely up to you and is powerful in
creating looks that achieve certain emotions.

You may notice that in romantic movies, colors seem to be warm and red, while in
action and super hero movies there is a lot of blue and teal. Our minds tend to
associate certain emotions with certain colors. Here is a list of colors and their
corresponding emotion or perception:

Red: Passion, enhanced metabolism


Orange: Sense of Welcoming, energy
Yellow: Happiness, positivity
Green: Harmony, stability
Blue: peace, relaxation
Purple: Luxury, romance
Black: Power, elegance, edginess
White: purity, simplicity
Brown: Dependability, friendliness.

1. Presets

Adobe Premiere Pro CC


has color grading
presets available under
Effects > Lumetri
Looks. You can play
with these preset looks
on your image by
dragging it to a clip on
the timeline to see if it
creates the colors that
you are going for. If it
does not, then continue
with the tutorial to
create your own looks.
To add a preset to multiple clips, go to New Item in your Project Panel, or
right click the background of your Project Panel, and go to New Item >
Adjustment Layer.

A window will pop up for you to establish the settings for your layer, but the
default should match your sequence so keep it that way. After clicking “OK”,
your adjustment layer can be found in your Project Panel.

Drag your Adjustment Layer onto your timeline on a video track above your
clips. Once it is on your timeline, you can extend it and drag it so that it is
hovering over all the clips you want to apply the preset to.

You can then drag any preset or effect onto your Adjustment Layer, and it
will apply it to all the footage under it.

2. Color Cast

You may notice that is some action


films, the film looks very blue, while
in some western films, it has a very
warm look to it. You can add these
color casts by combining two things
we have learned previously. Create
an adjustment layer on your entire film and drag the Fast Color Correction
effect onto to the Adjustment Layer. Use the Color Wheel to add or remove a
color by dragging the center circle in the direction of the color you want to
add, or the opposite direction of the color you want to remove.

To get a better idea of how warm or cool the clips are in your project, you can
open up the RGB (Red Green Blue) Parade scope that shows the levels of Red,
Green, and Blue in your image from left to right. To display this scope, go to
your Reference Settings > RGB Parade.

The top area of the waveform is the highlight area, the middle is the midtone,
and the bottom is the shadow.

3. Software
For more Color Grading features, learn more about Adobe Speed Grade, Black
Magic’s DaVinci Resolve.

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