Learning to Color Balance More Quickly With Fewer Adjustments

Hey Cullen – once again, really enjoyed this series. I love the four screen zoomed in windows you had in this one with you in the corner and your primary bars below, and on the right the image with the scopes below. I fond with all these new high res screens that people use that in a tutorial I’m squinting sometimes to see exactly what is happening. So thanks for doing that edit to this insight. It made it a pleasure to watch.

What a perfect topic, real fundamental, bread and butter colour grading! Decades ago, when I was taught how to line up old studio cameras, I was told to set the exposure and then leave the green channel alone and only balance with the blue and red. Part of the logic being that you could accidentally make similar adjustments to all three channels and you end up just where you started only darker/lighter – so it makes sense to pick one channel and move the others around it. Green is 70% of the luminance so leave that one alone.

I’ve recently been sat in front of a Resolve Advanced panel and, once I have my look and fixed node graph in place, the majority of what I’m doing is printer light hotkeys on a standard keyboard, 7 & 4 (red/cyan) and 9 & 6. (blue/yellow).

Thanks again for this series. I also really enjoyed your chat at ResolveCon with Daria, Darren and Casey, very insightful!

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Oldie but a goodie Marco!

Offset is my Favorite tool. Simple and very effective for balance.

Trish Cahill (The Hobbit, The power of the dog) taught me how to use it.  🙂

Love it Clement!

Simplifying with not only printer lights for balancing but also only manipulating 2 colors is a excellent perspective I hadn’t  thought of, thanks for a great series!