Apply brightness corrections to bottom half only?

I have a piece of footage that I would like to adjust selectively: only the bottom half needs to be color corrected. It is a hard line (water) and everything in it is too dark. How can I brighten only the bottom half of my footage in Premiere Pro CS6? Can I use a gradient to let it have only effect on part of the footage? I am a relative newbie to Premiere Pro... Thanks for your help!

Go to 'Effects-Video Effects-Transition' you will find Linear wipe. Add this effect to the copy of your footage. It will help at this point to turn off the original footage track. Adjust the wipe angle, percentage and feather to just sellect the area you want to colour correct. Turn back on the original track and then colour correct the new clip till it looks right.

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