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How to Change the Color of Objects in a Video Using Adobe Premiere Pro

Cristi Cotovan

15 May 2020 — 2 min read

Need to change the color of a dress, a car, or any object in your video without masking or tracking? Adobe Premiere Pro has a simple built-in effect called Change to Color that does exactly this. It targets a specific color in your footage and replaces it with another — no frame-by-frame work required.

Applying the Effect

Open the Effects panel (Window > Effects) and search for "color." Under Video Effects > Color Correction, find Change to Color and drag it onto your clip in the timeline.

Adobe Premiere Pro Effects panel showing the Change to Color effect highlighted under Video Effects > Color Correction — Search for 'color' in the Effects panel and find Change to Color under Color Correction.

Select your clip, then open Effect Controls. You'll see the Change to Color settings with two color swatches: From (the source color) and To (the target color). Click the eyedropper next to "From" and pick the color you want to change directly from the video preview. Then click the "To" swatch and choose your replacement color.

Premiere Pro Effect Controls showing Change to Color settings with From (blue) and To (red) color swatches, and tolerance and softness sliders — Use the color picker to set the source color (From) and the target color (To) in Effect Controls.

Adjust the Tolerance and Softness sliders to fine-tune the range of colors being replaced. Too much tolerance and surrounding colors get affected; too little and you'll see remnants of the original color. The effect works best on objects with a relatively uniform, distinct color.

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