Hollywood Looks represent a group of effect presets, each offering a different combination of applied effects and adjustments to achieve a certain look for the clip to which it is applied. In Premiere Elements 14/14.1 there are 16 looks found under fx Effects/Video/Hollywood Looks. The same 16 Hollywood Looks are also found in 13/13.1. In Premiere Elements 12/12.1, the same 16 looks are there but now the category for them in fx Effects is called Film Looks instead of Hollywood Looks. In Premiere Elements 11 these looks are there under the Film Looks fx Effects, but there are only 12 of the 16 which are found in later versions. The Adobe defaults settings for a look can be edited under the Applied Effects Tab and Adjust Tab.
To date, the names of the 16 Hollywood Looks effects presets are: Comic, Cross Process, Crushed Color, Deep Copper, Dreamy, Hollywood Movie, Horror, News reel, Old Film, Pandora, Red Noir, Sparta, Summer day, Trinity, Vintage, and Yesteryear.
REVIEW
This blog post is intended as a review of the combination of applied effects and adjustments that go into each of the 16 looks to give the unique look. Samples, each at its default settings, are given for comparison.
SAMPLES*
ORIGINAL
fx Effects: None. Adjust: Color, Lighting, Temperature and Tint
fx Effects: Split Tone. Adjust: Color, Lighting, Temperature and Tint
fx Effects: Gaussian Blur, Blend with Original. Adjust: Color, Lighting, Temperature and Tine
fx Effects: Three-Way Color Corrector. Adjust: Lighting
fx Effects: Three-Way Color Corrector, Split Tone. Adjust: Color
fx Effects: Old Film. Adjust: None
fx Effects: Old Film. Adjust: None
fx Effects: Invert. Adjust: Color
fx Effects: HSL Tuner, Blend with Original. Adjust: Color, Lighting
fx Effects: Three-Way Color Corrector, HSL Tuner, Split Tone. Adjust: Color, Lighting
fx Effects: Split Tone. Adjust: Color, Lighting, Temperature and Tint
fx Effects: Three-Way Color Corrector, Split Tone. Adjust: Color, Lighting
fx Effects: Shadow/Highlight, HSL Tuner, Split Tone. Adjust: None. Not in Premiere Elements 11.
fx Effects: Split Tone. Adjust: None. Not in Premiere Elements 11.
COMMENTARY
This samples were created using Premiere Elements 14/14.1 on Windows 7 64 bit and confirmed on Windows 10 64 bit. The Mac side of these effects presets was not looked at. The samples would apply to Premiere Elements 11 through 14/14.1. These particular effects presets were not found in Premiere Elements earlier than 11.
The order of application of effects was discussed in Item 0003 in the Premiere Elements 13 Daily Discoveries blog post back in September 2014. Please see
especially the quoted Adobe's PRE_Help Team's insights on Hollywood Looks.
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*For this review, Premiere Elements project preset = NTSC/DSLR/1080p/DSLR 1080p30@29.97.
Original image (3264 x 2448 pixels) was imported into the project and scaled to the Edit area monitor 1920 x 1080 space which was established by the project preset setting.
Any editing for the looks would be,
for fx Effects = Applied Effects Tab/Applied Effects Palette/Panel for the Effect expanded
for Adjust = Adjust Tab/Adjustments Palette/Panel for the Adjust expanded
fx Effect: Important, when more than one fx Effect is used for a preset, the order of those effects panels in the Applied Effects Palette is important to the effect outcome. Each Sample above lists the fx Effects used in its order (top to bottom) in the Applied Effects Palette. More on this in the next blog post.
fx Effect: Important, when more than one fx Effect is used for a preset, the order of those effects panels in the Applied Effects Palette is important to the effect outcome. Each Sample above lists the fx Effects used in its order (top to bottom) in the Applied Effects Palette. More on this in the next blog post.
ATR
