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Replace a color

If you need more control than the Color Replace effect offers, use the Secondary Color Correction controls in the RGB Corrector, RGB Curves,
and Three-way Color Corrector. These controls let you apply changes to a single color or a range of colors.

1. In a Timeline panel, select the clip you want to adjust so it appears in the Program Monitor.

2. If you want to replace a color in the displayed clip with a color in another clip in your project, open that other clip in the Source Monitor.

3. Apply the Color Replace effect to the clip you want to adjust.

4. In the Effect Controls panel, click the Setup icon

for the Color Replace effect.

5. In the Color Replace Settings dialog box, move the pointer over the Clip Sample image so it becomes an eyedropper, and then click to

choose the color to be replaced. You can also click the Target Color swatch and select a color in the Adobe Color Picker.

6. Choose the replacement color by clicking the Replace Color swatch and selecting the color in the Adobe Color Picker.

7. Broaden or reduce the range of the color you’re replacing by dragging the Similarity slider.

8. Select the Solid Colors option to replace the specified color without preserving any gray levels.

Remove color in a clip

To quickly remove color in a clip, apply the Black & White effect from the Image Control bin of the Video Effects bin.

1. Set up your workspace for color correction.

2. Select the clip in a Timeline panel and apply either the Fast Color Corrector or the Three-way Color Corrector. See also

Apply effects to

clips

.

3. In the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle to expand the Fast Color Corrector or the Three-way Color Corrector controls.

4. (Optional) Select the Show Split View option if you want to view a before and after comparison of your adjustment in the Program Monitor.

You can specify whether the split view is horizontal or vertical by choosing from the Layout menu. You can also adjust the relative proportion
of the before and after views.

5. (Optional for the Three-way Color Corrector only) Do any of the following:

To restrict your adjustments to a specific tonal range, choose Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights from the Tonal Range menu. Choosing
Master applies adjustments to the entire tonal range of the image. If necessary, use the Tonal Range Definition controls to define the
different tonal ranges.

To restrict your adjustments to a color or range of colors, click the triangle to expand the Secondary Color Correction controls. Define the
color or color range by using the Eyedropper tool or slider controls, or enter numeric values. See also

Specify a color or range of colors

to adjust

.

6. Scrub the underlined text or enter a value lower than 100 for the Saturation control. You can also click the triangle to expand the control so

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