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Where are curves?

Where are curves? - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Where are curves?

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- [Narrator] Some people prefer curves over the primary wheels. I'm going to go ahead here and click on curves. And I'll reset it to where it originally was. It happened to have everything locked together, that's Y, luminance, R, G, and B. And I can use this, say, on this shot to adjust this overall contrast. You can see there's no real shadow area. And I'm just going to take this shadow area and move it over, increasing the contrast, restoring some of those shadows. And then the shot looks maybe a little bit green to me, maybe needs a little cyan. So I'm going to just go to the green, and take the green and just make the green even a little bit less. To make a point in any given shot, lets come down a couple shots here. I'd like to give this an S-curve. I'm going to lock everything together. You just click and add a point, and I'm just going to adjust to give it that sort of little bit extra contrasty look. I'll right-click. We'll remove those points. Now, there are a bunch of other…

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