Using the panel, you can take color correction and color grading in the usual order. First, color correct to get a natural baseline image, then color grade for artistic style and effect. Or, you can exit the Color Grading panel. You can export your color correction work as a LUT for use elsewhere in the project, or for use in any other project or in any other software which accepts LUTs in. You can reset all color controls back to default. You can add a Broadcast Colors filter if necessary for your project. You can add a Bézier mask to limit your correction to only a certain section or object in your image. You can bypass the color grading to see your image without the color work you’ve added. ✓ The third section has only one tab, Finishing, but it contains buttons which lead you to several different functions. As with the Input LUT tab, you can load any. The second tab brings up HSL sliders, and the third tab lets you load a Look LUT for your color grade.
✓ The second section contains color curves and also an automatic white balance button. Under the fourth tab, you’ll find slider controls for input and output, and also for saturation and overall brightness (exposure). Under the third, you’ll find slider controls for the red, green, and blue components of the same four color areas. Under the second, you have four color wheels for adjusting the entire image or for adjusting the Gamma, Gain, and Offset separately. Under the first tab, Input LUT, you have the option of loading a camera LUT if necessary, or any other LUT file in. ✓ The first section contains several tabs which lead to different types of inputs and controls. In the default configuration, the first section displays color wheels, the second displays color curves, and the third displays an array of buttons. The Color Grading panel contains three sections with various color controls. But keep in mind that if you previously closed the Video Scopes window while working in the Color Grading panel, it will not automatically reappear the next time you open the Color Grading panel, and you will have to open it manually under the View>Window drop-down menu. Note, too, that the Video Scopes window also opens. Such a pity! All Adobe have to do is bring Colour Grading into the fold of all the other masking adjustments they've already included.Click the Color Grading button on the timeline toolbar to open the Color Grading panel at the bottom of the main VEGAS Pro window, under the timeline.
With 'bleached' grass in foreground from the summer drought here my hands are therefore completely tied. Neither, for the same reason, can I increase Balance. Sometimes I might want to increase the Saturation, but I can't because it noticeably stains other parts of the image. The screenshot shows an example of adding a 'Lavender' tint to the sky at a setting that I use regularly. The point is, they're all known and repeatable and using Saturation and Balance I've always got the precise control I need and I can apply or alter it in seconds (unlike using targeted adjustments in HSL, which would have to be trial and error for each image.) So I have a list of around thirty precise highlight values in Colour Grading which I use to counterbalance a cyan sky or add pale pink, orange etc. When I try and do this, it feels like I'm back in Lightroom 2 or something. I'm assuming (hoping) that Adobe read this blog.