CHAPTER 4

Primary Color Correction: Color Manipulation Tools

In the previous chapter, we discussed two of the most important color manipulation tools: the hue offset wheels and the individual red, green, and blue gain, gamma, and shadow controls. In this chapter, we’ll continue to explore those tools and will also look at other tools that are available in Color and other applications.

Color Wheels

The color wheels are analogous to the triple trackballs that most DaVinci and other serious colorists use as their main color manipulation tools. Whatever your software calls them, they are the GUI analogy of the triple trackballs on all color correction panels.

We did a correction tutorial already with trackballs or color wheels using a chip chart ...

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