Upgrade Your Toolkit: Create Custom Highlight & Shadow Controls

October 10, 2023

Learn how to create a custom highlight roller tools tailored to your creative needs inside DaVinci Resolve.


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Part 1 – Build reusable nodes for shaping your highlights and shadows

In this new series, we look at a technique for creating a custom highlight and shadow roller tool that is tailored to your exact creative needs and taste. This is a strong alternative to finessing the high and low end of your image using tools such as Shadows/Highlights, Log Wheels, or even the HDR Zones.

Careful Curve Control

I absolutely love curves as a way of manipulating my image (AND as a way of understanding the manipulations I’m making). One of the many things I enjoy about working with curves is the ability to exert fine control and get the exact tonality I’m after. I was inspired to develop the technique I’m showing you today because I wanted a fast, repeatable way of making that kind of nuanced curve adjustment tailored to my taste rather than being stuck with a set of stock tools that never feel quite right.

This is our first entry in a new series: Upgrading Your Toolkit, where we deep dive into the fundamental operators inside Resolve and demonstrate some new ways to get creative with your workflow.


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