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Valuable color grading Insights that arenโt on Mixing Light
This Insight is part of a Mixing Light series rounding up important non-Mixing Light articles, tutorials, and podcasts. They are culled from my TaoOfColor.com weekly Color Grading Newsletter (click through to read the most recent edition and subscribe). In this quarterly series I gather non-Mixing Light stories that I think our members need to see. Craft, workflow, technique, gear โ if I think an item published in the Newsletter deserves special mention and recognition then I put them in this series. Enjoy!
With this posting, โElsewhere on the Webโ is now an official series on the Library. As I mentioned in the first edition of this series, a part of me feels like this is a bit of cheat since you come to Mixing Light for original content โ and here I am sharing the work of other people. But the fact is, I spend a ton of time curating those voices for my weekly newsletter, and sometimes what theyโre saying I wish we said here first on Mixing Light.
About these six Insights
The first item in todayโs list is a perfect example of something I wish was said on Mixing Light, โManaging Saturation In DaVinci Resolveโ. This is an outstanding tutorial explaining a fundamental concept of DaVinci Resolve โ and putting it into action thatโs both creative and non-intuitive.
And if youโre wondering, yes โ I prioritized this list. They are not randomly listed. The higher up an item appears, the more emphatic I feel about you watching / reading it. And the first item in the Summer 2018 Edition is Do Not Miss if youโre color correcting in DaVinci Resolve. Thatโs enough preamble. Letโs get to it!
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1. Managing Saturation (without using Saturation controls)
DaVinci Resolve is based around YRGB image processing; with the Y-channel being your Luma, or brightness-only, channel. But this confuses many end-users. Hereโs the #1 question asked in this regard:
Whatโs the difference between using the Exposure Master Wheel vs the Y-only white bar in the Primaries Bar interface?
In this video colorist, trainer, and CSI founder Kevin Shaw tackles how to use YRGB processing to control saturation levels. He does this using both the primary wheels and custom curves โ isolating the Y-only channel. Itโs a fantastic technique thatโs subtle, effective and puts YRGB image processing to full use. And itโs a great alternative to using the Saturation control, which can induce harshly saturated images โ that this technique mitigates.
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