CHAPTER 4: ADDING EFFECTS AND TITLES 1214. Click Add then click Options, adjust the Fill light and Enhance shadowsettings in Enhance Lightning dialog box clicking Options button.5. Click OK.Color Correction ToolThe basic principle behind color correction is adjusting Highlight, Midtone andShadow across Red, Green and Blue channels of your digital images or movies.What it means is that you will need to carefully ration the amount of each color inbright, midtone and dark image areas. To do just that you can rely on the programitself and perform Automatic color correction or you can tweak settings manuallyselecting a reference color in the source clip and moving the control point to adestination color.There are three different methods of color correcting: adjusting gray scale levels(Levels), working with Hue, Saturation and Lightness (HSL) wheel or editingCurves.To color correct with Levels:1. In the Timeline, select a clip on which the filter will be applied.2. Click Clip: Video Filters.3. In Video Filters dialog box, select Color Correction from Available filters tothe left.4. Click Add>> then click Options.5. In the Color Correction Tool dialog box, make sure Levels tab is active andthen click the Master button. This will select all pixels across the tonal rangefor adjustment as opposed to selecting only bright (Highlights), medium tone(Midtones) and dark (Shadows) pixels.6. Click to collectively select the RGB channels or click on each correspondingchannel to perform adjustments.7. Adjust the horizontal Input tonal values with either leftmost black point slider,rightmost white point slider or the middle grayscale slider. Be careful not toreduce the dynamic range of the image remapping the image tonal range. Ifyou rather do wish to reduce the overall tone, consider shifting the black orwhite threshold limits with the Vertical Output tonal slider. Preview thedifference.8. To adjust Highlights, Midtones and Shadows separately, click on eachcorresponding button to the left of the Levels graph.
