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1 online resource (527 pages) |
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Front Cover; The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Using this Book and the DVD Materials; The Tutorial Clips on the DVD; Using Tutorial Footage in Apple Color; Using Tutorial Footage in DaVinci Resolve; Other DVD Resources; What This Book Is Not; Thoughts on "Tech" and "Color Science"; Waveform Tutorial Videos; Chapter 1 -- Primary Color Correction: Tonal Range Primer; Monitoring; Viewing Environment; Waveform and Vectorscope Displays; Alternative Displays and Tools for Analysis; First Things First: Black Level; Reading the Waveform Monitor |
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Setting the Black LevelSetting Highlights; Setting Gamma or Midtones; Defining Contrast; Chapter 2 -- Primary Color Correction: Tonal Correction Tools; Main Tools for Tonal Corrections; Don't Use Brightness or Contrast Controls; DaVinci Resolve; Histograms or Levels; Curves Tab; Curves Tutorial; Isolating Tonal Ranges with Curves; Luma Range Display; Luma Range Editing; Alternative to Luma Range; Chapter 3 -- Primary Color Correction: Color Control Primer; Balancing the Image; Color and the Vectorscope; Histograms; Eyedropper; Balancing Color with a Flat Pass Waveform Monitor; Color Contrast |
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Chapter 4 -- Primary Color Correction: Color Manipulation ToolsColor Wheels; Color Wheels and Trackballs with RGB Parade; Saturation Controls; Histograms; Curves; RGB Lift, Gamma, and Gain Sliders; Channels or Channel Mixers; Printer Lights; Filters; Additional Tools; Chapter 5 -- Secondary Color Correction Primer; The Purpose of Secondary Correction; Are You Qualified?; Color Vector Isolation; Isolating a Vector in DaVinci Resolve; Spot Color Correction (Vignettes or Power Windows); Color Vector with Window or Vignette; Secondaries Are Crucial; Chapter 6 -- Secondaries with the Pros; Vignettes |
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Vignetting the Ultralight Flyover SceneVignetting the "Kiss" Bedroom Scene; Vignette to Create Day-for-Night; Vector and Luma Qualified Secondaries; Secondary Corrections Can Focus Attention; Using Secondaries to Match; Using a Luma Key to Build Contrast; Use a Secondary to Soften Skin Tones; Multiple Windows and Masks; Creating Depth and Texture; Chapter 7 -- Correcting Shots; Four More Grades of the "Banker's Light" Scene; Saving a Shot with Bad Color Cast; Four Trips Down the "Alley"; Three Passes Over the Barn; Building Up a Weak Piece of Video; Using Many Tools to Fix a Shot |
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Grading with Curves in PrimaryBroadening the Color Palette; Chapter 8 -- Telling the Story; Color Changes the Story; Talk Like a DP; The Story Is the Script; Emphasize Elements to Further the Story; Imposing Story on the Boxer; Story Epilogue; Chapter 9 -- Matching Shots; Matching the Lions of the Art Institute; Matching Scene to Scene; Matching When Lighting Changes in a Scene; Matching AND Saving!; Matching Conclusion; Chapter 10 -- Creating Looks; Enough Is Enough; Preset Looks; Festa's PowerGrade Library Revealed; Preset Looks in Apple's Color; True Grit; Graphic Looks; Day-for-Night |
| Summary |
The only guide to the art and technique of color correction based on the invaluable knowledge of more than a dozen of the top colorists in the world. This book allows you unprecedented access to the way the masters of the craft approach their work. Containing decades of industry experience and professional colorist know-how, this book provides an understanding of what top-tier colorists look for in an image and how they know what to do to make it great. Featuring techniques performed in a variety of color correction software applications (DaVinci Resolve, Apple Color, Synthetic Aperture's Col |
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NOT Doing a Look |
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Print version record |
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Color photography -- Digital techniques.
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Color computer graphics.
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Color computer printers.
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Color display systems.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- Color.
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Color computer graphics
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Color computer printers
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Color display systems
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Color photography -- Digital techniques
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780240817163 |
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0240817168 |
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