Adjusting Saturation with the Color Board

After Exposure, you might need to tweak Saturation:

1. Click on the Saturation tab at the top of the Color Board.
2. Move the Midtones slider up (or perhaps down) until it looks good.
3. Optionally, move the Shadows slider up (or perhaps down) until it looks good.

If a shot starts life underexposed or overexposed, it’s likely to be undersaturated. Some footage is also slightly undersaturated by nature, but if the image looks very flat, then it might have been shot in “log” mode, and you’ll find out how to deal with that later in this chapter.

Figure 11.32: Before/after Saturation boosts are best seen in the Vectorscope, or in Waveform set to Chroma

For now, if any parts of the image look unexciting and dull, boost Saturation. Midtones are most likely to need work (as it’s the puck you probably changed the most under Exposure), but Shadows can look good boosted too...