Color Wheels filter in Motion

Provides four color wheel controls to adjust color in your images. You can also adjust a clip’s brightness and saturation levels using sliders on the sides of the color wheels.

To learn how to use the controls described below, see Use the Color Wheels filter.

Adjust this filter using the parameter controls in the Filters Inspector:

• View: Sets the layout of the color wheels. This pop-up menu has two options:

  • All Wheels: Displays all four color wheels (Global, Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights).

  • Single Wheels: Displays one large color wheel at a time. In Single Wheels view, click a button to display a specific wheel (Global, Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights).

• Color wheels: Graphical controls to adjust the color, saturation, and brightness of an image. Drag the center control to modify color; drag the left slider to modify saturation; drag the right slider to modify brightness. Click the reset button (the curved arrow) below a wheel to reset the wheel to its default values. There are four color wheels:

  • Global: Adjusts the color, saturation, and brightness of the entire image.

  • Shadows: Adjusts color, saturation, and brightness in the darkest regions of the image.

  • Highlights: Adjusts color, saturation, and brightness in the lightest regions of the image.

  • Midtones: Adjusts color, saturation, and brightness in the midtone regions of the image.

• Temperature: Adjusts the color temperature (warmness versus coolness) of the image.

• Tint: Adjusts the mix of green versus magenta in an image.

• Hue: Uniformly remaps the colors throughout an image.

• Global, Shadows, Midtones, Highlights: Click the disclosure triangles to reveal four sets of numeric sliders that adjust the same parameters (color, saturation, and brightness) as the color wheels described above.

• Mix: Sets the amount of the original image that’s blended with the color-corrected image.