How to Make Image Adjustments in Adobe Premier Elements

Adobe Premier Elements gives you the control to adjust hue, contrast and brightness for each video clip in your movie. You can lighten a dark scene or increase the overall color of a scene. You will see your scenes previewed in the monitor as you make the changes. You can make these changes as you edit the movie or at the end when you added special effects and the soundtrack.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Premier running on a PC Computer.
• An edited Premier movie.

1. 
   Properties Palette

   Open your movie file with Adobe Premier Elements. On the right you will see the properties palette of your scene. Click on the IMAGE CONTROL tab to display the image properties you can adjust.

2. 
   Image Properties

   We want to change the saturation of this picture. However, before we do we will increase the BRIGHTNESS by 10. This will enable us to increase the saturation without adversely affecting the shadow areas.

3. 
   Adjusting brightness

   Notice, we have entered 10 into the brightness tab and the image has become noticeably brighter. The colors now also appear to be under saturated allowing us to adjust the saturation.

4. 
   Adjsuting Saturation

   Enter 70 in to the saturation box. The image is now properly saturated and the blue sky appears to be brighter and more pleasant than in the original.
   These are fine tuning adjustments.

5. 
   Artistic adjustments

   You can also make artistic adjustments. By adding 120 into the HUE adjustment we can create an alien landscape and a unique special effect.

Tips & Warnings

• Most videos do not require image adjustments if the the videos were shot properly.
• It is very useful for making fine tuning adjustments, but if the contrast and brightness were not correct in the video, it is difficult to achieve them with editing.
• Adjustments to contrast to achieve detail in shadows will cause the video to look washed out.
• Adjustment to brightness to obtain details in the highlights will cause videos to become washed out.

Resources

• Adobe Premiere

[klnygaard]

on 8/19/2008 good info--wow, your ads are cool too

[oneloved]

on 8/19/2008 Very educational!

[Vanillatte]

on 8/19/2008 I like the alien landscape!

[Hapworth]

on 8/19/2008 I like the idea of special effects.

[acole]

on 8/19/2008 Good to know.