Answers.Body: <p>In Lightworks, there's the selective color correction tool.
  By moving the sliders like this you can select the shadows (luma slider) and desaturate them:
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/yRyJt.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/yRyJt.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>By  clicking "Reveal" you can see which parts of the image are going to be changed.
  With much thanks to the guys at the Lightworks forum.
  Source: <a href="http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&amp;func=view&amp;catid=7&amp;id=104681&amp;Itemid=81#104813" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Lightworks forum: Desaturate shadows</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Neither Lightworks nor Blender really offer any coloring functionality advanced enough to do that natively. However, Davinci Resolve is a free program which has very advanced color grading functionality which will allow you to easily desaturate shadows. It also isn't that complicated of a program. It can be difficult to understand all the ins and outs, but basic functions are very intuitive.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: As stated in my question, resolve is not an option for me because I'm on a linux system and the free version is only for Mac and Windows
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Body: <p>I'm using Lightworks as my main video editor (I use Blender occasionally), and use it to color grade too. I want to desaturate my shadows using either Lightworks or Blender, but I can't find that tool. Is it there, and if it's not, is it on something else I can use on my Linux system (not Resolve, needs very specific hardware i can't afford)? LUTs that do this are an option too!</p>
  
  <p>Thnx ahead :)</p>
  
Tags: <color-correction><color-grading><lightworks>
Title: Desaturate shadows in Lightworks
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ThreadText: # Desaturate shadows in Lightworks
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-11)
  
  I'm using Lightworks as my main video editor (I use Blender occasionally), and use it to color grade too. I want to desaturate my shadows using either Lightworks or Blender, but I can't find that tool. Is it there, and if it's not, is it on something else I can use on my Linux system (not Resolve, needs very specific hardware i can't afford)? LUTs that do this are an option too!
  
  Thnx ahead :)
  
  **Tags:** color-correction, color-grading, lightworks
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-12-17. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  In Lightworks, there's the selective color correction tool.
  By moving the sliders like this you can select the shadows (luma slider) and desaturate them:
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/yRyJt.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/yRyJt.png)
  
  By clicking "Reveal" you can see which parts of the image are going to be changed.
  With much thanks to the guys at the Lightworks forum.
  Source: [Lightworks forum: Desaturate shadows](http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=7&id=104681&Itemid=81#104813)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-12-16. Score: 0
  
  Neither Lightworks nor Blender really offer any coloring functionality advanced enough to do that natively. However, Davinci Resolve is a free program which has very advanced color grading functionality which will allow you to easily desaturate shadows. It also isn't that complicated of a program. It can be difficult to understand all the ins and outs, but basic functions are very intuitive.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: As stated in my question, resolve is not an option for me because I'm on a linux system and the free version is only for Mac and Windows  
  
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