To Adjust Colors With The Hue/Saturation Effect; To Colorize An Image Or Create A Monotone Result - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

Original (left), and with effect applied (right)
Adjust the following controls for the Hue/Saturation effect:
Specifies the color channel you want to adjust. Choose Master to adjust all colors at once.
Channel Control
Specifies the definition of the color channel chosen in the Channel Control menu. Two color bars
Channel Range
represent the colors in their order on the color wheel. The upper color bar shows the color before the adjustment;
the lower bar shows how the adjustment affects all of the hues at full saturation. Use the adjustment slider to edit any
range of hues.
Specifies the overall hue of the channel chosen in the Channel Control menu. Use the dial, which repre-
Master Hue
sents the color wheel, to change the overall hue. The underlined value displayed above the dial reflects the number
of degrees of rotation around the wheel from the pixel's original color. A positive value indicates clockwise rotation;
a negative value indicates counterclockwise rotation. Values range from –180 to +180.
Master Saturation, Master Lightness
Channel Control menu. Values range from –100 to +100.
Adds color to a grayscale image converted to RGB, or adds color to an RGB image—for example, to make
Colorize
it look like a duotone image by reducing its color values to one hue.
Colorize Hue, Colorize Saturation, Colorize Lightness
you chose in the Channel Control menu. After Effects displays only the sliders for the Channel Control menu choice.

To adjust colors with the Hue/Saturation effect

Choose Effect > Color Correction > Hue/Saturation.
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From the Channel Control menu, choose which colors to adjust:
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Choose Master to adjust all colors at once.
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Choose a preset color range for the color you want to adjust, and then use the sliders for that color range.
For Hue, type a value or drag the dial.
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4 For Saturation, type a value or drag the slider. The color shifts away from or toward the center of the color wheel,
relative to the beginning color values of the selected pixels.
For Lightness, type a value or drag the slider.
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To colorize an image or create a monotone result

Choose Effect > Color Correction > Hue/Saturation.
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Select Colorize. The image is converted to the hue of the current foreground color. The lightness value of each
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pixel does not change.
Drag the Colorize Hue dial to select a new color if desired.
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Drag the Colorize Saturation and Colorize Lightness sliders.
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Specify the overall saturation and lightness of the channel chosen in the
Specify the hue, saturation, and lightness of the color range
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