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Let's take a look at some of

my favorite tools
for adjusting texture in the color page.

Let's take a look at shot.

And again, I'll load my 60 on here
from another shot

and close this down a little bit.

So here we can really see
some of the details on the ship.

And we have kind of this scoring
and everything that we might be able

to make just a little bit better
using a window.

Just make that really soft

and we'll use our custom curves.

That's the first kind of regular curves
here.

And a good way to go about

this is if you want to pick kind
of the middle tone, something like that,

I can add a little dot there
and kind of keep that where it should be

and we can

push the darker parts down a little bit
and the brighter parts up a little bit.

Now the colors

pop a little bit,
but we really get a lot more contrast

and we can see this texture
a lot more than we could before.

Whereas here
it kind of feels a little bit cloudy.

Now we're really tightening up
those textures.

So that's a really great way
to just select a part of the clip

that you really want to enhance.

If we don't want to brighten this down,
we can just kind of counteract that

with the saturation,
kind of push that down

so that it doesn't brighten it up so much.

Maybe we'll push that down a little more.

And now we have that increased

texture there
without making the colors really bright.

Let's take a look at another example.

Go ahead and load shot

eight again with our color space transform
just in our clip nodes.

And now we can take this
and adjust some of the texture as well.

Maybe we want to do something like

enhance these trees.

We can just make a little shape
like that again.

Maybe I'll push this pink
just so we can see how

soft we want this.

It will soften it out like this.

And now we have this nice kind

of soft selection here,
and I'll get rid of my offset.

And again, let's pick
sort of a middle tone

somewhere in there,
and I can boost the bright

parts up a little bit,
take dark parts down, attach.

And now we're just kind of

really enhancing the texture

of those trees

without increasing
the contrast of the whole shot.

Now, there might be reasons
you would want to do this.

Maybe these trees are more important
in the story or whatever.

These are just kind of examples

because you do have to be careful
with this because where the contrast is

and where the texture is, that's
what's going to be most important.

What's most interesting
and you don't necessarily want to make

a part interesting
where you don't want your viewer to look.

And so what might be a better idea?

I'll just turn off this power curve
and turn on another one.

Might be a better idea
to just make a little shape

like this

and feather that out.

And now all of the texture

and everything is most
apparent here in the middle.

It gives a little bit more

kind of subtle focus to where you want
the viewer to actually look.

And that might be a great way to go.

But I use this technique a lot.

If I want to just clarify something,
if I want a little bit more detail,

if I want something to pop
just a little more.

These custom curves
are definitely your friend.