From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)
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The ColorCorrect node - Nuke Tutorial
From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)
The ColorCorrect node
As mentioned in the previous video, the Color Correct node gives you far more control for matching the layers of a composite. It has separate controls over the darks, midtones, and highlight ranges, and you can even define what those ranges are. I'll double-click on the Color Correct mode, open up the Property panel in the Property bin. Here we can see the ranges. Now, the Master is global, it affects the entire picture. This, of course, is your shadows. And your midtones. And your highlights. Now, the first thing you want to do is go to the Ranges tab and check your ranges. So, come up here and click on the Ranges tab. Here's where we define what is a shadow, a midtone and a highlight. You can adjust the Shadow curve and the Highlight curve, but you cannot adjust the Mid tone curve, Nuke calculates that from your two curves. Now to see what part of the picture fits into what range, what we have to do is, go to the Color correct node here. And turn on the Test button, and you get a…
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