- Use Windows and Qualifiers
- Grade with the HDR palette
- Isolate subjects with Magic Mask
- Streamline color management
- Grade skin and improve facial rendering
- Work with raw and log footage
Color Grade with Confidence
Using our provided projects, you’ll jump right in and begin color grading a wide variety of footage . You’ll learn the best approaches for setting the tonal range and contrast for each shot using color wheels and curves. You’ll also learn how to create a shot matching strategy that will make your grading sessions more disciplined and ultimately more productive.
Perform Targeted Corrections
Resolve’s numerous Qualifiers are a powerful way to isolate and perform targeted corrections on your images. One common use is sky replacement, and you’ll learn how to use a 3D qualifier in conjunction with Resolve 18’s new sky replacement effect to replace a dull sky with a more vibrant one.
Use AI as Your Grading Assistant
With Magic Mask (Studio version only), elements such as faces, clothing, human bodies and even objects can be isolated using Resolve’s Neural Engine. You’ll learn how to combine Magic Mask with qualifiers for making selections that would otherwise be impossible to achieve in other grading applications.
Optimize Your Grading Workflow
Helping you work more efficiently in Resolve is a big focus of this tutorial. In this example, Mark shows you how to use Shared Nodes for the purpose of linking your grades to other clips so that when you make changes to one, all other clips that share that node receive your changes.
About the Author: Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer is a bay-area based producer, editor, teacher and writer. Mark is also an Apple-certified instructor for Final Cut Pro and Motion 5 and the author or coauthor of 5 books on Motion, including the Apple Pro Training Series Motion 5, all from Peachpit Press.Full Bio
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James H. (verified owner) –
This is an excellent tutorial. It is an extremely comprehensive detailed presentation of color grading with Resolve, from the basics to extremely advanced. I use it as a reference now to help me apply tactics I hadn’t used in the past, brush up on forgotten tactics and ideas, and consider alternative ways of grading creatively. Appreciate the updates.
Ferdinand P. (verified owner) –
Thank you for tutorial and I get so many knowledge about technical and color grading in Davinci resolve. Keep it up.
Matthew S. (verified owner) –
Just a quick note to thank you for the Resolve Advanced Color Grading update. It was already a superb tutorial and the updates are welcome. Terrific teaching and much appreciated.