Flexing Fundamentals – The Hidden Power of the Offset Wheel

Part 1 – Learn the Offset Wheel’s hidden usefulness in color-managed workflows

I can’t lie, I LOVE working with complex tools and math tailored to my exact creative needs. But the only thing I love more is what I call “Flexing Fundamentals” – getting more out of my basic primaries than anyone else. The more of the work we can accomplish here, the more efficient, intuitive, and clean our grades become. Today we’re working with the most important fundamental of all: the Offset Wheel.

About the Offset Wheel

The Offset Wheel is the simplest possible manipulation we can make to our image, and it dates back far earlier than digital color grading to the days of photochemical color timing. Color timers knew how to flex this fundamental because they had to – it was, literally, the only tool at their disposal. So in this Insight, we’re going to explore how we can max out our use of this tool just like they did.

About this Insight

For our first installment of this new series, you’ll learn how offset can be used not only for exposure and balance, but to manipulate contrast, color separation, and saturation.