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I just came to a slight flaw in my movie. The story is Daniel and the Dragon and if you have ever seen the dragon slayer movies you know what I want! SO here's two pictures I took with different color corrections.
Color:
Black and White:
I like the black and white, but add more light in it- it's too dark.
Well I'd suggest you stick to colors, it doesn't seem like a movie which needs B&W and looks good with it.
I think you should use colors!
Color for sure. I don't see a reason you would need black and white.
The problem I see with black and white is that it never looks good unless used perfectly, in most instances, it turns the film into a complete wreck. My advise, try to mess with the saturation so the color is dulled, but still there.
What RedBrick said. You should find a happy medium. I don't really see a point in B&W unless you just want a different look to it, or for some reason it adds to the story.
-ht
i would personally use a type of faded color to give it an old feeling
Perhaps you could use sepia?
What I would do is use color, however desaturate it, and up the contrast.
If you want to shoot in b/w you have to change background to a ligher one. Same thing for colours.
What would be awesome is if you got color and lowered the saturation and stuff so it looks like this:
You know, to give it that sort of "fantasy" feel. I haven't seen the "dragon Slayer" movies so I don't know if this is what you're going for though.
I did some effects for fun. i couldn't upload them as pictures so i sent it to your email=P
Perhaps you could use sepia?
thats thy word i wanted
Wow guys thanks for all the feedback! I think I may go for some sepia however I need to find out how to do that in Elements. If anyone can help than please!
Are you talking about Premiere Elements or Photoshop Elements? If you're going to edit in Premiere I know how to do that. I assume Photoshop would be either the same or similar, but I have not work a ton with that program so far. Anyway, in Premiere Elements, you want to add the (HSL) and (RGB) Color Correction effect filter to the picture. Go into the (HSL) Color Correction filter and adjust the Lightness to "0" and the saturation to "-83.6". You can mess with the hue if you want, but that will just start giving you funky colors and I'm not sure you want to go that route. Then go into the (RGB) Color Correction filter and set the green to "168", the red to "98", and the blue to "52". This will give you a sepia tone while still retaining some color to it. Now, these figures are just to get you into the sepia tone area. You can adjust them as you please to get the right color and tone you want. Once you're done you can just copy and paste the settings to whatever photos you want within Premiere. Hope this helps a little.
EDIT: I just realized this. Or, you could use the Old Film filter and set the Damage to "0". The other is more customizable to fit what you want, though. Either way works fine.
Last edited by Seth Hoover (March 22, 2011 (11:32pm))
Are you talking about Premiere Elements or Photoshop Elements?
I have both so that really help! Thanks!
I like black and white more because it gives the film a more artsy feel, but if your not going for artsy, you shouldn't use it.
I think it looks pretty good when it's somewhere inbetween:
Like that which is just the B&W frame over the colour frame with it's opacity set to about 75%
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