Creating Looks - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 444

Fig. 10.79 Matusek's
primary correction for the
“gold” look.

Fig. 10.80 Data for the Primary room.

Matusek goes to the secondaries and adds a soft oval in the Upper left
corner. “You can do a few things here. Maybe add some more color in
there. You can even do this, which is interesting sometimes,” he says as
he makes the vignetted area cyan ( Figures 10.81 - 10.83 ) .
“So you're playing one color off another?” I ask. “Right,” he responds.
“That's not creating contrast with luminance, that's doing it with color.”
Matusek continues with his experimentation. “I can do one more
thing with this, because, as you said, the planks are kind of cool on the
pier,” he says, increasing the contrast in the planks of the pier, creating a
nice texture to the shot ( Figures 10.84 and 10.85 ).

N o t e
Please check out the Gradi-
ent_Look video tutorial on
the DVD for another way
to create a cool look with
this image.