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Using curves as primary corrections

Using curves as primary corrections - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Using curves as primary corrections

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- In this chapter, we've been talking about making big honking corrections. Primary corrections that affect almost every single pixel in our image. The concept being, we're trying to firm up our image for further color correction to happen down the pipeline. A tool that kind of straddles between being a primary control and what we're going to talk about later as a secondary control, is custom curves. You're going to find it here by default. It pops up in the middle of our interface. It's the one that's active when we first launch DaVinci Resolve into the color page. These are called custom curves. Let's talk about how this interface works real quick. We've got two dots on either end of a graph. On the lower left-hand corner is pure black. On the upper right-hand corner is pure white. We can manipulate these endpoints by clicking and dragging on them, up and down. New in DaVinci Resolve 12 is the ability to move them left and right, increasing contrast which we never had this control…

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