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Grazie wrote on 11/12/2007, 1:24 PM
Wanna email/SKYPE me a Preview grab?

Grazie
craftech wrote on 11/12/2007, 3:35 PM
You should be able to fix it using the Color Corrector eyedroppers for the white and the black and then adjust the gamma to suit.

John
blink3times wrote on 11/12/2007, 4:34 PM
I have TERRIBLE white balance problems when I set my Sony for auto white balance (My Sony Auto white balance is mostly out by a mile just about every time). So I'm quite used to having to reset it using the color correcter. Use the mid level corrector and just a little of the Hi correcter. Pull the correcter bubbles down and to the right of the 180 degree marker line. It's quite easy to gain a much more natural look, even by eye.
Laurence wrote on 11/12/2007, 7:10 PM
Grazie helped set me on course this afternoon. It almost makes sense now :-)
Grazie wrote on 11/12/2007, 11:59 PM
When I am using the Colour Corrector what I am doing is to telling CC what I feel/see/recognise as being the range of colours/tones that need to be corrected.

I do this by using the colour picker that will INTRODUCE a compensating/balancing/COMPLETMETARY colour that will achieve this.

For example if my "WHITE", which may appear as too blue/cool then, clicking on the "Choose Complementary Colour" for the HIGH wheel, and then going directly to the BAD picture and dragging across those HIGH pixels that are showing the equivalent HIGH WHITE, and letting-go of the mouse button will return a movement on the HIGH wheel, away from the BLULE area and towards the WARMER RED/Yellow are of the HIGH wheel. I do NOT move that centre mark by hand. I use the Complementary colour picker to do this.

Once I've done the HIGH I then move onto the MID.

Here I choose/DRAG over a nondescript grey mid TONE colour. And if needed, I move further left, and do the same for the blacks with the LOW wheel.

So, all through this it is I that is dictating what I am calling WHITE(high) that which I select as a MIDDLE-tone(MID-tone) and that which I see as BLACK (Low). What CC brings back is as good a WHITE balanced picture that can expect.

I rarely use the 2nd Corrector, preferring to use Colour Curves for any frame-wide tuning.

OK, it is much better NOT to do ANY of this. I do NOT use AUTO WHITE balance in my camera and depend on the CANON set WB for the simple scenarios in which I shoot, and use them. If I then need to colour correct then I have a set and non-wandering WB. When I shoot mixed lighting scenarios then I DO do a manual WB. And again if needed I have a set WB against which I CAN Colour Correct in Vegas.

Now, all of this is not the fun bit which is colour grading a piece for an "effect". That I do next! But having corrected for WHITE ( White Balance) I have a datum for then applying my colour grading for a "feel".

For me I generally need to correct for the following reasons:

* Grazie made mistakes! Oh yes!!!!

* Sickly Green Martian Floro look!!

* To warm red/orange

* Under lit scenes that need an assist prior to a touch of Saturation/Gamma lift

* "Blending" one scene into another prior to colour grading

The more I do of this work, the more I get faster and closer to the narrative I want. For me Colour Grading IS part of the narrative too.

I hope this is clearer for you Laurence. It was good fun yesterday and I also hope that the veg I gave back to you will assist you further.

Colour Correcting is done far more and in far more places and done in places you/I/we would not think happens! - But oh yes - it does! And then the art is to blend it so that we don't SEE the "joins". Anybody here seen CC going on that "jars" the eye? I have. And then it will have a massive colour FX to make amends. But that's okay too!

Regards,

Grazie