Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 207)

The Primary In room provides your main interface for color correcting each shot. For every
shot, this is where you begin, and in many cases this may be all you need.
Simply speaking, primary corrections are color corrections that affect the entire image at
once. The Primary In room provides a variety of controls that will be familiar to anyone
who’s worked with other image editing and color correction plug-ins and applications.
Each of these controls manipulates the contrast and color in the image in a different way.
Note: Many of the controls in the Primary In room also appear in the Secondaries and
Primary Out rooms, in which they have identical functionality.
This chapter covers the following:
• What Is the Primary In Room Used For? (p. 207)
• Where to Start in the Primary In Room? (p. 208)
• Contrast Adjustment Explained (p. 210)
• Using the Primary Contrast Controls (p. 212)
• Color Casts Explained (p. 222)
• Using Color Balance Controls (p. 224)
• The Curves Controls (p. 234)
• The Basic Tab (p. 245)
• The Advanced Tab (p. 249)
• Using the Auto Balance Button (p. 251)
• The RED Tab (p. 252)
What Is the Primary In Room Used For?
Typically, you'll use the Primary In room to do tasks such as the following:
• To adjust image contrast, so that the shadows are deep enough, the highlights are
bright enough, and the overall lightness of the image is appropriate to the scene.
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