Learn how to analyze and break down the look components of any reference image into a language that you can then reverse engineer to apply to footage…
Category: DaVinci Resolve
In this workshop, Lead CG Artist and Compositor Shahin Badiei takes us through the journey of a visual effects shot from its inception to completion. Shahin begins…
Simple Techniques for Fixing Exposure Shifts Sometimes in a grading session dreded exposure shifts crop up. It might be gentle slip of the hand. Sometimes a desperate…
How to ‘Hide’ Your Color Corrections With A Simple Technique Sometimes a grading session can be less about making crazy extreme looks and more about natural images…
What is texture? And how do you add it to your image? While teaching at NAB this year I spoke to some awesome Mixing Light members who…
How to build complicated node trees (without getting lost) This insight was inspired by a great member and long term fellow colorist Colin Travers. In my previous…
‘Order of Operations’: It’s a term you need to know and understand Nodes are the building blocks in Resolve and often forgotten about. We use them for…
How Color Temperature Sets Mood and Tone Next up in my series on rediscovering the basics is to take a look at color temperature. Color temperature is…
Thinking about how to approach the foundation of every Look Next up in my series on rediscovering the basics is to take a look at contrast. In…
Working Saturation Without Touching The ‘Sat’ Control Welcome back to Mixing Light for 2015! A new year brings a new start and as I was making my…
Do you have 50 shots that need quick and effective beauty work (but no budget or time)? In my previous Insight on this topic I shared the…
Welcome back to almost the grand finale of my series on beauty grading! In the last insight we took a look at how I re-touch my beauty…