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Category: Mixinglight
1. ML 0814 – Creating A Western Look With A Color Space Transform And Film Emulation LUT While creating a Western look, learn how to use a…
1. ML 0373 – Look Inspiration – Metallic Monochrome Sometimes you need to go hard and contrasty with black and white and Dan shares his experience when…
1. ML 0649 – Thinking Like A Colorist – Assessing Tonal Range Dan shares his new approach to Assessing Tonal Range and the initial grading moves by…
1. ML 0736 – Part 1 Behind The Curtain – Bread Short Film In this new series, Dan is showing a real-time grade of the bread short…
1. ML 0084 – Building Color Correction Looks, Tinting Your Shadows Sometimes when you’re grading a video you just need to pull out something special to give…
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…