Chapter 9. Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Stabilizing a shaky shot

• Automatically balancing color and/or matching color to another shot

• Manually color balancing with the Color Board

• Picking a color look or creating your own

• Fixing the exposure and adjusting the contrast with help from the Luma waveform monitor

• Adding secondary color corrections, part 1 — shape masks

• Adding secondary color corrections, part 2 — color masks

• Adding secondary color corrections, part 3 — combining color and shape masks

• Keeping only one color in your image

• Spotlighting an object or text