Cover -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Setting Up A Color Correction Environment -- Choosing a Display -- Setting Up a Color Correction Suite -- Configuring a Grading Theater -- Other Hardware for Color Correction -- 2 Primary Contrast Adjustments -- How We See Color -- Luminance and Luma -- What Is Contrast? -- Evaluating Contrast Using Video Scopes -- Controls to Adjust Contrast -- Expanding Contrast -- Compressing Contrast -- Y'Cbcr Luma Adjustments Vs. Rgb Luma Adjustments -- Redistributing Midtone Contrast -- Setting Appropriate Highlights and Shadows -- Contrast and Perception -- Contrast During Exhibition -- Dealing With Underexposure -- Dealing With Overexposure -- 3 Primary Color Adjustments -- Color Temperature -- What Is Chroma? -- Analyzing Color Balance -- Using Color Balance Controls -- Color Temperature Controls -- Using Color Curves -- Saturation Adjustments -- Understanding and Controlling Color Contrast -- 4 Hsl Qualification And Hue Curves -- Hsl Qualification in Theory -- Individual Qualifier Controls -- A Basic Hsl Qualification Workflow -- Tips for Using and Optimizing Hsl Qualifications -- Different Ways of Using Hsl Qualifiers -- Hue Curve Adjustments -- Other Types of Hsl Adjustments -- 5 Shapes -- Shape Ui and Controls -- Highlighting Subjects -- Creating Depth -- Shapes + Hsl Qualifiers -- Aggressive Digital Relighting -- Shapes and Motion -- 6 Animating Grades -- Grade Animation Controls Compared -- Correcting Changes in Exposure -- Correcting Hue Shifts -- Grade Transitions Using Through Edits and Dissolves -- Artificial Lighting Changes -- Creative Grade Animation -- 7 Memory Colors: Skin Tone, Skies, And Foliage -- What Are Memory Colors? -- Ideals for Skin Tone -- Techniques for Adjusting Complexion Using Secondaries -- Ideals for Skies -- Techniques for Adjusting Skies -- Ideals for Foliage.

8 Shot Matching And Scene Balancing -- Color Timing -- Strategies for Working With Clients -- How to Begin Balancing a Scene -- How to Match One Shot to Another -- Recycling Grades -- Scene Matching in Action -- 9 Quality Control And Broadcast Safe -- Quality Control Issues That Affect Colorists -- Video Signal Standards and Limits -- Six Structured Steps to Legalizing Your Picture -- Monitoring and Legalizing Saturation in Detail -- Rgb Color Space Legality and the Rgb Parade Scope -- Other Video Scope Options for Broadcast Gamut Monitoring -- Creating Graphics and Animation With Legal Values -- 10 Creative Techniques -- Bleach Bypass Looks -- Blue-Green Swap -- Blurred and Colored Vignettes -- Color Undertones -- Cross-Processing Simulation -- Day-for-Night Treatments -- Duotones and Tritones -- Flashing -- Flattened Cartoon Color -- Glows, Blooms, and Gauze Looks -- Monitor and Phone Glow -- Sharpening -- Tints and Color Washes -- Vintage Film -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Bonus Content for Chapter 9 -- Bonus Content for Chapter 10.

The colorist working in film and video is the individual responsible for breathing life into characters, bringing a mood into a scene, and making the final product polished and professional-looking. This craft is an art form that often takes years to perfect and many trial-and-error attempts at getting it right. Here to help both the newcomer and professional who needs to brush up on their skills is the first book to cover a wide variety of techniques that can be used by colorists, no matter what system they’re using. Whether you’re using a video editing package with a color correction tool built in (Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro) of a dedicated application (Apple Color, Assimilate Scratch, Baselight, or DaVinci), this book covers it all. From the most basic methods for evaluating and correcting an overall image, to the most advanced targeted corrections and creative stylizations typically employed, you’ll find this highly organized book a solid reference that’s easy to navigate. The accompanying DVD contains footage as well as cross-platform exercises and project files for readers to experiment with. After reading the techniques, readers will learn to apply the methods that all of the color correction applications use, how to problem-solve and trouble-shoot, how to maximize the effectiveness of each tool that’s available, and they will discover how to creatively combine techniques and tools to accomplish the types of stylizations that colorists are often called upon to create.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.