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Post #1318465

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TheAlaskanSandman
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"Champions of the Force"; Holly's Attack of the Clones edit (Work In Progress)
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Date created
8-Jan-2020, 10:54 PM

AbramPT said:

I’m intrigued! The prequels could definitely do with a nice colour correction. I think you’ve got the right idea but some the colours don’t seem… accurate. Does that make sense? Definitely too much blue sometimes (as already mentioned) but other colours as well seem a little off. I wish I knew more about all of this to properly explain what I’m thinking. Don’t get me wrong, I’m loving what I’m seeing!

Keep up the good work!

https://www.dummies.com/photography/photo-software/correcting-colors-in-your-digital-images/

Follow the pic with the color sliders. Its pretty easy, just takes time and practice. Plus every one will have slightly different taste. If you think something is too blue, you must determine if its too blue or too cyan. Too blue, you pull blue and get more yellow, too much Cyan, you add red. You will have to balance other colors usually though. Blue in the paint spectrum isn’t the same as in light. In light, Blue is not a primary color, Cyan is. Blue is closer to magenta. In light, all the colors together make white. You may choose to adjust saturation though as well, as grey wont look grey if your saturation is too high. Be mindful of your white areas, and lighting of the room or shot. If they are outside in the middle of a sunny day, then whites should be white. Other than their shadowed area. If it is sunset, then a white shirt for exp, shouldn’t be white anymore, it should be hues of orange and reds.
This is why so many people were fooled by that Gold/purple dress photo. Some peoples brains weren’t figuring out the light source of the scene and their brain was color correcting the image for them. The lighting their brain wasn’t picking up was giving the gold color in their mind.
So always be mindful of the lighting of the room and what light sources are in the room. If you can, get a female to help. Women have better eyes for color than men do. I’ve worked in photo development for high end professionals and also in paint, its a proven fact we knew of in each profession and we would even do fun test. They have wider spectrum they’re able to notice. Pretty cool.

https://www.eyeque.com/color-blind-test/
Always good to make sure you’re not color blind too. Something men tend to suffer.