The color page lets you manipulate color in creative and artistic ways that dramatically affect the mood of a scene, making it an incredibly powerful part of the storytelling process. You can balance and match footage from different sources to create stunning, unique images that are impossible on other systems! Balancing color is the first step in the color correction process.
This is done with the primary correction tools, which are located at the bottom left of the screen. Primary tools affect the entire image and you use them to adjust brightness and color levels to remove unwanted tints and to create a neutral starting point. Each wheel is mapped to a different part of the tonal range. This palette also has adjustment controls, primary bars and log controls. Once shots are balanced, you can begin the creative grading process to create unique "looks".
The primary color wheels let you adjust balance and brightness in overlapping tonal ranges called lift, gamma and gain also known as shadows, midtones and highlights. The offset wheel adjusts the whole image. The primary palette contains incredibly powerful primary adjustment controls that let you quickly adjust image contrast, saturation, hue, temperature, tint, midtone detail, color boost shadows, highlights and more.
For example, midtone detail lets you adjust contrast in areas with high edge detail to increase or decrease image definition or sharpness. Color boost, also referred to as vibrance, intelligently adjusts areas of an image with low saturation, resulting in a subtle and more natural looking increase of color.
Whatever your grading experience, these tools will help you quickly produce amazing results! The primary bars are an alternative to the primary wheels that allow for more subtle changes to individual color channels and luminance. The log grading wheels have more tightly defined tonal ranges for shadows, midtones and highlights than the primary wheels. Balanced and matched shots make content from different cameras look consistent.
