I recently had a chance to jump back into the photography studio and take some head shots to help out a friend. It was quite a fun…
Category: DaVinci Resolve
In this insight I take a look at an advanced technique for beauty grading. Inspired by the world of still retouching and built by the amazingly smart…
In this Insight we take a look at what options we have available to us in DaVinci Resolve for working with skin tones. Skin tone retouching comes…
They call it color correction or color grading, but I’m convinced that the most important part of our job as colorists has nothing to do with color,…
Let’s continue with our series on Beauty Grading and building upon what we learned in Part 1. In this insight we’ll be taking our corrected image and…
One of the most requested topics here on mixing light is working with skin tones and working in beauty situations. Your requests have been answered and this…
Part 2: Breaking Down a Difficult Shot and Using the Key Mixer As a general rule of thumb… the more experienced at color grading I become the…
Working with key signals in DaVinci Resolve doesn’t have to be complicated – but it’s not intuitive either. And once you get the basics down, you start…
When dealing with complicated masks and multiple nodes all doing a similar job, the key mixer node can be a life saver! Its probably the least used…
LED Stage Lighting – A Colorists Worst Enemy! I thought it was time to go behind the curtain again and share another story from my suite. This…
Part 2: What Are the Proper Source and Target Settings in an ACES Workflow? In truth, setting up Color Match in ACES pipelines is remarkably simple and…
In Part 1 we’re going to explore the proper Target and Source Pull-Downs with Color Charts in RAW The explanation is easier if we separate the discussion…