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Dirty Looks - Looks Throughout The Ages
At some point in every colorists career you will be asked to make some looks throughout the ages like 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Dan shares how.
Colorist Inspiration – June 2016
Summer has arrived and the annual down turn in business begins. My clients first head off to the cannes lions festival and then off on their summer holidays. It’s the…
Getting Started with CalMAN's Colormatch Workflow
If you do video color correction, watch 'Getting Started with CalMAN ColorMatch' to learn how to test if your reference display is accurate.
Chasing Down Money: 6 Strategies For Overdue Payments
Running a creative business is fun until someone is long overdue paying you! Learn 6 Strategies for chasing down overdue money
Using Custom Offsets with the i1 Display Pro OEM in Lightspace
Learn how using Custom Offsets with the i1 Display Pro OEM can turn this inexpensive colorimeter into a reference meter you can trust.
Dirty Looks – To Grain Or Not To Grain
Adding grain can help add a wonderful cinematic feel to a project but in the world of heavy compression is it a smart decision?
Optimizing the i1 Display Pro OEM for Lightspace - Part 1
The X-Rite i1 Display Pro is the most popular colorimeter on the market. Learn how to use it in Lightspace for video profiling & calibration.
From The Grading Room – Wonderful Life
Dan shares parts of his conversation about the grade on recent wonderful life commercial grade.
Dirty Looks - Pushing Your Images Toward Extreme Warmth
Some projects call out for extreme warmth to help back up the story. Learn methods to get an extremely warm feel that looks real.
Graphs in Lightspace DPS: How To Read Your Profile Results
Learn how to read the graphs in Lightspace DPS, to evaluate if your display requires calibration for color correction.
How Sync & VPN Changed My Color Grading Life
In this Insight, Robbie explores how through VPN & BitTorrent sync he was able to leave the office earlier & still work!
Inspiration - Color Grading Methods In A Fashion Commercial
Get an inside look on methods and techniques a professional digital video colorist uses on a short-form fashion commercial.
Getting Started with Lightspace DPS - Do You Need To Calibrate?
'Does my color correction display need recalibration?' Getting Started with Lightspace DPS (a free app) helps you answer that question.
Reference Display Profiling: Is Your Display Accurate?
If you do video color correction, do you know if your reference display is accurate? Learn how to find out. The first video in a series.
Colorist Inspiration - Creating Looks from Reference Images
Learn how Dan uses reference images to create his Looks - and download the sampe footage to try your hand and practice your skills.
12 New Features in Resolve Studio 12.5 (that are worth paying to upgrade)
These 12 New Features in Resolve Studio 12.5 may finally get you to upgrade to the paid version. See some of them in action.
Colorist Inspiration – What Makes A Good Colorist?
A topic that came up time and time again while meeting lots of awesome colorists at NAB this year was : How did you come up with the look for…
DaVinci Resolve Studio - Exclusive Features for the Paid Version
Learn how Resolve Studio 12.5, the paid version of Resolve, is starting to get siginificant features that free users will want.
Color Correction Ergonomics - Working Faster and Comfortably
If you're looking to improve your color correction ergonomics for your editing or color correction suite - this post has some ideas for you.
Colorist Inspiration – April 2016
NAB is over and a whole heap of new tools and toys have arrived for us colorists. The perfect time for another installment of colorist inspiration. This installment is slightly…
Resolve 12.5 - Dan's Favorite New Can't Miss Features
Resolve 12.5 is here and Dan shares his thoughts on the exciting brand new features and how they can be used to help you colour correct better.