You can have, say, an old home movie, or newsreel, or cartoon look. These are canned thematic packages, each using color, noise, gain, grain, motion simulation, distress, contrast and other treatments to give you an overall feel. To make your movie positively jolly with emotional vibe, you can try FilmLooks. Move your cursor towards the corner or side showing the look you want, and Elements grades the whole clip towards your choice. Auto Smart Tone applies a range of algorithmically-concocted fixes, displaying them in four panes placed around your original. Fortunately, there’s a shortcut called Auto Smart Tone. It’s easy to fool yourself and lose reference. In fact, any color correction takes time, attention and perspective. But who-other than astrophotography buffs making eclipse movies-has time for that?

If you need more subtle tweakage, you could port a clip's worth of frames out to Photoshop Elements, fix one, apply the tweak-settings to a stack of them, and return them to Premiere. As with pro-level editors, Elements has a tri-level color-grader so you can separately address areas in shadow, in highlight and in-between.

Adobe’s Photoshop pedigree may be at work here. Operationally, Elements steps you from an elegantly simple Quick mode (I just want to make my movie now), through a Guided zone (earn while I learn), up to the Expert level.Ĭolor correction in Premiere Elements has some serious game.

Adobe premiere elements 3 0