How to make blue sky bluer, green grass greener.

Rich Parry wrote on 3/13/2021, 7:32 PM

I've been using VP for 15+ years, when I want to make a blue sky bluer, I add a Secondary Color Corrector plug-in to the event, sample an area of the blue sky to adjust by selecting the effect range. If there is grass in the media, I add another Secondary Color Corrector plug-in to the same event, sample an area of the green grass and adjust.

Is there a better way to adjust specific colors. I think all other plug-ins adjust colors “globally” or “semi-globally”. The secondary color corrector seems to be the best option to select a specific color range to adjust, agree? I’m using VP18.

Thanks in advance

Comments

fr0sty wrote on 3/13/2021, 9:23 PM

Until individual color saturation and luminance controls are added, you're doing it right.

wwaag wrote on 3/13/2021, 11:41 PM

You might try AAVColorLab. It's a free tool that adjusts Hue, Saturation, and Lightness for individual colors.

Here's the link. http://aav6cc.blogspot.com/

As you will see, it's been around for quite awhile.

RogerS wrote on 3/14/2021, 1:03 AM

I agree with what you are doing, Rich. I found this too slow so I switched to Graide Color Curves. The AAVColorLab is also useful if less precise.

lenard wrote on 3/14/2021, 5:48 AM

It sounds like you're talking about what Resolve calls colour warp, where hue/saturation and choma/luminance can be adjusted on individual objects. If there is a plugin that can do that same on Vegas I"d like to know about it

Marco. wrote on 3/14/2021, 6:54 AM

"If there is a plugin that can do that same on Vegas I"d like to know about it"

RogerS already mentioned that plug-in: Grade Color Curves. The handling is different but the process and result is same.

lenard wrote on 3/14/2021, 7:15 AM

It looks good

Marco. wrote on 3/14/2021, 7:23 AM

It will take some time to explore all the features and modes Graide Color Curves offers (e.g. the differences between the Y'RGB and the HSY' mode).

RogerS wrote on 3/14/2021, 8:23 AM

It's excellent and pretty intuitive after you play with it. The interface is more like the main way Resolve does individual hue corrections than the new color warp interface.

Here's an overview of what Graide does, which is quite a lot! Start with HSY and hue or saturation for the types of color corrections mentioned in the first post. With Graide you can select points that will show up on hue, saturation, luminance, etc. and even copy points between curves so it's efficient to use.