If things are done properly skin color will return to normal and the overbearing teal/cyan that is slathered over the screen brings the original colors back to what they were, or at least close to what they might have been. This also includes skin color and green trees and grass. The things that are most important to me when I am attempting to unscrew that horrible teal and orange color grading, which is often cyan and orange color grading, is to make sure that white remains white, grey remains grey, and black remains black. FFmpeg is my bag and after screwing around with the filter I finally found a workflow that sucks but works consistently.

I looked and looked for a video equivalent to that but didn’t find anything for years until I found that somebody added the same logic for selective color that Photoshop uses to FFmpeg. I then decided to give DaVinci Resolve a try, but I found the interface to be less than intuitive to me even after watching several videos on the subject so back to AAV Color Lab it was.Īround that time I really started to get back into Photography and had a picture that needed some major color correction and it was then that I discovered Selective Color in Photoshop CS5. I was able to scrape away a lot of the problems, but in some cases it just wouldn’t work like I hoped it would.

A while later I ran across this page that addressed my concerns but then I asked myself if it would be possible to make it suck less.Īt the time I was using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 but couldn’t find any decent method to do color grading the way I wanted to do it until I ended up stumbling upon AAV ColorLab’s plugin. Yes, I have no taste but because I grew up in the 80’s I was compelled to watch it in the theater. I hadn’t paid much attention to color grading until I was blatantly subjected to it via the first Transformers movie.

Ffmpeg filter selectivecolor example