Answers.Body: <p>This might be better suited as a comment to your original post, but alas I do not yet have those privilegies.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, my answer to you would be a cliché one: Keep tinkering.</p>
  
  <p>It's really a matter of finding out what effects Premiere can offer, deciding which will be able to assist you the most and then going back and forth between them until you find a result that pleases you.</p>
  
  <p>That said, you might want to check out the Color Balance effect. I find it very useful in most projects.</p>
  
Answers.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Answers.CreationDate: 2012-12-07T22:26:38.433Z
Answers.LastActivityDate: 2012-12-07T22:26:38.433Z
Answers.UserDisplayName: gburning
Answers.Body: <p>If your goal is to get better at coloring.. yes keep tinkering. If you want a push button possibility download try SpeedGrade and try some of the preset "Looks". Ultimately, for any auto correction to look exactly like the Picasa one would be a piece of chance.</p>
  
  <p>I am by no means a color guru, but I found these resources helpful in some recent projects:
  
  <li>
  <a href="http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2012/01/7-tips-for-hd-color-correction-and-dslr-color-correction/" rel="nofollow">Some quick basics</a>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/story/answering-the-essential-color-correction-question" rel="nofollow">Kind-of Concept Overview but interesting</a>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="http://www.lynda.com/Video-training-tutorials/78-0.html?previousCategory=1298" rel="nofollow">Color Correction Tutorials</a>
  </li></p>
  
Answers.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Answers.CreationDate: 2014-07-28T16:05:11.670Z
Answers.LastActivityDate: 2014-07-28T16:05:11.670Z
Answers.UserDisplayName: integris
Body: <p>I'm trying to color-correct a video I'm working on. This is an example frame from the footage:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/VCTQ5.png" alt="Original footage"></p>
  
  <p>Since I'm a newbie and pretty clueless about good-looking color correction, I've tried playing around with some Picasa filters. Eventually I've came out with this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/wvS9E.png" alt="Picasa color correction"></p>
  
  <p>This supposed to be a reference for me to later on immitate with Premire's color correction tools. </p>
  
  <p>In Premiere, I've tried using Levels:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/2c21Z.png" alt="Levels"></p>
  
  <p>And RGB curves: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/DKYot.png" alt="RGB curves"></p>
  
  <p>And this is the result:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Jwbbz.png" alt="Premiere Attempt"></p>
  
  <p>After a lot of small adjusments, still you can see a big difference:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/2bOBD.png" alt="Picasa vs Premiere"></p>
  
  <p>My main problem is that <strong>whenever I'm fixing one color, or one area of the frame, always another part is affected in a non-wanted way</strong>. For example you can see the wall in the Picasa version is more yellow than the one in the Premiere version, but the left-hand closet is less yellow than the one in the Premiere version. Meaning making the whole thing more yellow might fix the wall's shade but make the closet's shade worse.</p>
  
  <p><strong>My question is, what method should I use while using these filters (or others) in order to achieve a known effect?</strong> Is there a specific filter I should use before or after another? Or how could I determine the proper adjusment for affecting one color/shade but leaving another as it is?</p>
  
  <p>This is important to me not only for this specific project, but also because I assume this <strong>method</strong> is what professional editors use when trying to achieve a specific vision they have for a frame.</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2014-07-28T20:37:32.140Z
Comments.Text: Do you particularly like the the color grade you accomplished with picasa? Did that achieve something artistically and cinematographically that you were going for?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Scott James Walter
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2014-07-29T01:19:38.673Z
Comments.Text: Which filter in Picasa did you apply, and with which parameters?
Comments.UserDisplayName: user1118321
Tags: <video><premiere><filter><cs5><color-correction>
Title: How can I accurately immitate this Picasa filter with Premiere's color correction filters?
UserDisplayName: Roy
ThreadText: # How can I accurately immitate this Picasa filter with Premiere's color correction filters?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2012-12-02)
  
  I'm trying to color-correct a video I'm working on. This is an example frame from the footage:
  
  ![Original footage](https://i.sstatic.net/VCTQ5.png)
  
  Since I'm a newbie and pretty clueless about good-looking color correction, I've tried playing around with some Picasa filters. Eventually I've came out with this:
  
  ![Picasa color correction](https://i.sstatic.net/wvS9E.png)
  
  This supposed to be a reference for me to later on immitate with Premire's color correction tools.
  
  In Premiere, I've tried using Levels:
  
  ![Levels](https://i.sstatic.net/2c21Z.png)
  
  And RGB curves:
  
  ![RGB curves](https://i.sstatic.net/DKYot.png)
  
  And this is the result:
  
  ![Premiere Attempt](https://i.sstatic.net/Jwbbz.png)
  
  After a lot of small adjusments, still you can see a big difference:
  
  ![Picasa vs Premiere](https://i.sstatic.net/2bOBD.png)
  
  My main problem is that **whenever I'm fixing one color, or one area of the frame, always another part is affected in a non-wanted way**. For example you can see the wall in the Picasa version is more yellow than the one in the Premiere version, but the left-hand closet is less yellow than the one in the Premiere version. Meaning making the whole thing more yellow might fix the wall's shade but make the closet's shade worse.
  
  **My question is, what method should I use while using these filters (or others) in order to achieve a known effect?** Is there a specific filter I should use before or after another? Or how could I determine the proper adjusment for affecting one color/shade but leaving another as it is?
  
  This is important to me not only for this specific project, but also because I assume this **method** is what professional editors use when trying to achieve a specific vision they have for a frame.
  
  **Tags:** video, premiere, filter, cs5, color-correction
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do you particularly like the the color grade you accomplished with picasa? Did that achieve something artistically and cinematographically that you were going for?  
  > **username_2**: Which filter in Picasa did you apply, and with which parameters?  
  
  ---
  
  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2012-12-07. Score: 1
  
  This might be better suited as a comment to your original post, but alas I do not yet have those privilegies.
  
  Anyway, my answer to you would be a cliché one: Keep tinkering.
  
  It's really a matter of finding out what effects Premiere can offer, deciding which will be able to assist you the most and then going back and forth between them until you find a result that pleases you.
  
  That said, you might want to check out the Color Balance effect. I find it very useful in most projects.
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_4 on 2014-07-28. Score: 0
  
  If your goal is to get better at coloring.. yes keep tinkering. If you want a push button possibility download try SpeedGrade and try some of the preset "Looks". Ultimately, for any auto correction to look exactly like the Picasa one would be a piece of chance.
  
  I am by no means a color guru, but I found these resources helpful in some recent projects:
  
  - [Some quick basics](http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2012/01/7-tips-for-hd-color-correction-and-dslr-color-correction/)
  - [Kind-of Concept Overview but interesting](http://provideocoalition.com/pvcexclusive/story/answering-the-essential-color-correction-question)
  - [Color Correction Tutorials](http://www.lynda.com/Video-training-tutorials/78-0.html?previousCategory=1298)
  
  
  ---
  
  