From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Know your color-grading options and approach

Know your color-grading options and approach - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Know your color-grading options and approach

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Up to this point, we've talked about color in After Effects mostly in terms of matching. Accurately getting foreground and background colors to look like they belong together. This is something that After Effects is fully capable of doing well with its built-in tools such as levels and curves. When it comes to color grading, however, which is more the artistic pursuit of making this shot look like it belongs in a movie. The basic color tools in After Effects aren't anywhere near the level of tools, such as Colorista from Red Giant Software. This third party effect is designed to recreate what Suites from DaVinci to speed grade to base light and beyond do to create a cinematic color grade. Before we get to Colorista, let's just take a look at this digital image and what's required to get it looking right. This image is what we would call properly shot. It's low contrast, and it has very low amounts of sharpening. Basically none. Those are the two things you always want when you shoot a…

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