How To Upgrade Your Contrast, Pivot, Lift, and Gain Adjustments

That was so helpful, Thanks alot Cullen, i would love to see more technique like this with other colourspaces such as YUV HSV or HSL also;

Very helpful. Tip: You can also try out the contrast tool in the “HDR Wheel” section. It gives similar results (similar, but not the same). It behaves very differently compared to the default contrast tool.

Really useful technique here, Cullen. I like the idea of this being set up in my fixed node tree in LAB. Will definitely try it on my next grade! Thanks for the insight.

The thing to remember here is if the S curve option is ticked, the response will change depending on timeline colourspace.

The HDR contrast has a rolled bottom and more linear response in the highlights but make sure to dial in your colourspace on the HDR palette tab to make the most of that feature.

With the S curve option ticked the LAB/Log C combo tucks the shadows and rolls the highlights. Which makes for a great/fast way to compress your shadows and roll your highlights.

Great tip Cullen! So many options.

Hi Cullen,

Could you show us how to do the “Lab contrast” technique in Fusion? With a custom tool and color transforms?

I have been following your Creative color science masterclasses and I would like to add this tool into my lookdev process.

I am already trying to find out how to do that on my own. No success yet ^^

Thank you

Regards,

Thank you for the insight. I found this neat little post about Lab CIE: https://www.xrite.com/blog/lab-color-space

Thank you for taking me to the 3rd dimension.

Hi Cullen, nice tip ! If I’m correct, It’s basically be the same results if I’m adjusting contrast using the Y knobs of the mini panel (although It could be more tedious) ?

Thanks,