Secondaries with the Pros - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 226

Fig. 6.31 Data from the inside corrections to the secondary.
“What I'm going to do is an isolation appearance. This is something I
like to do.” Pepperman creates a custom user shape for the next vignette,
defining one of the buildings. “What I'm doing is brightening the build-
ing to give it the appearance that the lights are on.” Pepperman creates
this illusion by raising the highlights and crushing the blacks inside the
vignette ( Figures 6.32 and 6.33 ) . “I'm going to make sure that the blacks
are deep, so it doesn't look like it's got a spotlight on it. And the midrange
might even help that. Now, that looks pretty good. I'm going to soften it.
So I like that.”