All language subtitles for Procolor_C10_L2b_Creative_Con_Tools

Let's explore some of the tools
and resolve that will let us adjust.

Contrast in a creative way.

Let's start 85 and I have my color
transform loaded here and

I'll get rid of my clips and my gallery
so we have a little bit of room.

Any of the tools that adjust contrast
that we've talked about in the last

couple of chapters are really just fine
for creative contrast adjustments.

The difference here would be instead
of making my contrast just to where

my darker parts are dark enough
and my letter parts are light enough,

it's actually going a little bit
beyond that to stylize the image

so I could do something like
grab this contrast control and push it up.

Maybe just a little farther than I think
it should be.

And then I can take my pivot
and push that around

to where we're really starting
to kind of shape the tones in this image.

Here's before kind of where we were
and here's where we are now.

And it's up to you as the

colorist to decide whether you like
what's happening to this image or not.

One thing that pretty much happens
all the time when you're using contrast

creatively is you're going to lose
a little bit of detail.

This is something that people sometimes
look at as a no no,

you shouldn't have any of the blacks
crushed out.

You shouldn't have any of these bright
kind of clipping colors.

But the difference here is
we're not trying to keep

all of the information here.

We're
trying to make this feel a certain way.

And if the subject still looks nice and
it gives you the feeling that you want,

there's really no reason

not to crush out some of the detail
that you might not need.

Now, this was just with contrast
and pivot, which might work great,

but we can also use the curves,
and this is usually what I'll reach for

just because
I'm really trying to dial things

in most of the time.

And you get a little bit more detail with

exactly how quickly things get dark
and exactly

how much detail
you can kind of keep in the highlights.

And we might be able to get a similar
feeling

to what we had
without losing a ton of detail here.

In the brighter parts,

it's kind of two ways
to get to the same sort of result,

and it's really dependent
on what you feel like doing.

Let's look at another

clip here, maybe clip 55.

I'll just middle button mouse
click to load our color

transform from one of our other shots.

And now we have a much less
dramatic scene,

but we can still add
quite a bit of contrast here

and adjust our pivot

and get something

that's not overly dramatic
but still feels nice and clean and poppy.

So here's before and here's after.

Again,
we can do the same thing with the curves.

I can grab the bottom part of the curve
here, start bringing that down,

bring the top up a little bit,
and we can really start to push

that contrast quite a bit more than you
sometimes think you could.

And your eye kind of gets used to it
and it actually looks really nice.

Again, this is kind of dependent
on the type of senor doing.

You'd probably add more
contrast to a dramatic scene,

and for something like this

we might just add enough
to kind of make the colors pop

without making it way too dramatic.

Again, very much dependent
on the subject that you're looking at.