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Note: A more reliable way to keep colors within the broadcast-safe range for your output type is to use color management
features to set the output color profile accordingly, such as to SDTV (Rec. 601 NTSC). This ensures that color values
between 0.0 and 1.0 in your working color space are converted to broadcast-safe values. (See "Broadcast-safe colors" on
page 249.)
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
The broadcast standard for your intended output. NTSC (National Television Standards
Broadcast Locale
Committee) is the North American standard and is also used in Japan. PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is used in most
of Western Europe and South America.
How to reduce signal amplitude:
How To Make Color Safe
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Reduces a pixel's brightness by moving it toward black. This setting is the default.
Reduce Luminance
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Moves the pixel's color toward a gray of similar brightness, making the pixel less colorful. For
Reduce Saturation
the same IRE level, reducing saturation alters the image more noticeably than does reducing luminance.
The maximum amplitude of the signal in IRE units. A pixel with a magnitude above this value is
Maximum Signal
altered. The default is 110. Lower values affect the image more noticeably; higher values are more risky.
Change Color effect
The Change Color effect adjusts the hue, lightness, and saturation of a range of colors.
This effect works with 8-bpc and 16-bpc color.
Corrected Layer shows the results of the Change Color effect. Color Correction Mask shows a grayscale matte
View
that indicates the areas of the layer that will be changed. White areas in the color correction mask are changed the
most, and dark areas are changed the least.
The amount, in degrees, to adjust hue.
Hue Transform
Positive values brighten the matched pixels; negative values darken them.
Lightness Transform
Positive values increase saturation of matched pixels (moving toward pure color); negative
Saturation Transform
values decrease saturation of matched pixels (moving toward gray).
The central color in the range to be changed.
Color To Change
How much colors can differ from Color To Change and still be matched.
Matching Tolerance
The amount that unmatched pixels are affected by the effect, in proportion to their similarity to
Matching Softness
Color To Change.
Determines the color space in which to compare colors to determine similarity. RGB compares colors
Match Colors
in an RGB color space. Hue compares the hues of colors, ignoring saturation and brightness—so bright red and light
pink match, for example. Chroma uses the two chrominance components to determine similarity, ignoring
luminance (lightness).
Invert Color Correction Mask
Change To Color effect
The Change To Color effect (formerly Change Color HLS effect) changes a color you select in an image to another
color using hue, lightness, and saturation (HLS) values, leaving other colors unaffected.
Inverts the mask that determines which colors to affect.
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