Andy Drefs

Q: How do I remove a red color cast (caste?)

I recently shot a lunch at an outdoor restaurant under a red umbrella and the shot has a very overly red color to it now.  I am very unfamiliar with the art of color correction and I need to make the pizza in the shot look like, well like pizza again.  Can someone point in the proper direction for how to do this without destroying the look of everything else in the shot?  Thanks in advance!

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 2.66 Ghz Quad Core

Posted on Jul 2, 2016 10:51 AM

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Q: How do I remove a red color cast (caste?)

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  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Jul 2, 2016 10:59 AM in response to Andy Drefs
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    Jul 2, 2016 10:59 AM in response to Andy Drefs
  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Jul 2, 2016 9:55 PM in response to Andy Drefs
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    Jul 2, 2016 9:55 PM in response to Andy Drefs

    In the color board/color corrector effect, you can simply move the global puck to the red band and pull directly down. That action "subtracts" red from your scene. Your other option is to go to the Cyan band and push the puck up to "add" cyan (complementary) color to your source.  You also have the option to use masking to make that action selective only to the "pizza region" of your scene.

     

    Here's another video that demonstrates using animated masking with (over 90% of all) effects in FCPX:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKAFYnbr1ME

    This video promotes items for sale which you do not need for simple color correction (so I'm not asking you to buy anything). It does focus on a topic that might not be very well known. For example, if you know how to use the Hue/Saturation filter effect, then you could apply that to your pizza element with masking to normalize it instead of using the color board, etc.

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Jul 3, 2016 5:23 AM in response to Andy Drefs
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    Jul 3, 2016 5:23 AM in response to Andy Drefs

    Also…you might apply the Balance Color correction to see what effect it has.

     

    Russ

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Jul 3, 2016 5:27 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jul 3, 2016 5:27 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    Meg The Dog wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpX3ZYAKy8

     

    my deepest respect and appreciation to lynda.com, and maybe it's caused by 'only an excerp', look:

     

    Bildschirmfoto 2016-07-03 um 14.16.47.png

     

    Advice in that video is a 100% correct, but ...

    left: clip selected, Color Balance, done.

    right: lynda's result after a dozens steps.

     

    hmmm try yourself ... one click only.

     

    Why so shy to 'balance' first???

    ok, Apple doesn't share the settings in the Color Boards, so, I can NOT fine-adjust the slight green cast in the Auto result.. but I'm free zo apply a 2nd Correction ...

     

    What I've learned about CC, and I'm a beginner, is Step#1 should always check/adjust White Balance ... then the manual stuff ... then looks ...