3. Primary Corrections

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the following:

• How to control contrast and color using a variety of controls

• How to identify issues using the SpeedGrade video scopes

• How to make tonally specific color and contrast adjustments

This lesson will teach you how to make the most basic adjustments to image color and contrast.

Getting Started

In this lesson, you’ll get your first experience with using the Look panel to make image adjustments by making primary corrections. Primary color corrections are adjustments that affect the entire image and serve as the foundation of every single grade.

For this lesson, you’ll use the project file located in the Lesson_03 folder.

1. Launch SpeedGrade (if necessary) ...

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