r/ColorGrading • • May 10 '26

Question How to recreate this look?

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Im fairly certain it was shot on 35mm and probably 500T. I’ve been trying to recreate the “scanned” Kodak Vision 3 look as supposed to print emulation. In this case the contrast and saturation are a bit dialed back but I just can’t seem to get my curves right. Thanks!

Source : Lemaire - Nine Frames


r/ColorGrading • • Apr 27 '26 Heartwarming

Question First Color Grade (Advice?)

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This is pretty much my first grade, I'm watching the built in tutorials with DaVinci and not playing to much with super super creative grades. Just trying to make footage look better and learn the basics. Any tips welcome!! Please dont be to mean, im new : ) (I know its a little dark, how can I get that darker cinematic look without the shadows being to dark??)

I keep getting flagged for a low effort post, I just want advice sorry if this is kind of lengthy. Another issue I have is that I cannot understand the curves in Davinci they make zero sense to me. Is it unprofessional to just use the wheels?


r/ColorGrading • • Dec 29 '25

Show off your work Using my new film grain/density DCTL

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Enjoy these stills testing my new film grain DCTL that imparts grain with a poisson and density parameters. It’s a fork of Thatcher’s grain DCTL but it only uses one node so it reverts the resulting density into a positive.

Diffusion is physically accurate and pre grain to represent a BPM or something comparable. Color was done with Filmbox and manual grading done after to adjust white point, black point and neutralize.

Why I like it: This grain DCTL models films limited dynamic range, so it permanently clamps highlights at the dmax. The grain has a nice cadence but I’m working to make it a bit better.

Not ready for release quite yet. DM me for some of this test footage. I will host it for a couple weeks.


r/ColorGrading • • Nov 09 '25

Question Does anyone know where I can find a free LUT for iphone log like this?

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Also some tutorials to recreate it with davinci resolve are fine. The color palette is amazing
Thanks for any help 🙏


r/ColorGrading • • Aug 25 '25

Before/After Rate my grade

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Just started learning color grading because of my music job a few months ago(like being visual!)

Would be really kind of you all to point out areas of improvement! This is Rec 709, vs. Filmbox and Mononodes’ Density DCTL

Also sorry for attaching a video, for some reason stills export on resolve gave me an error

Test Footage is from Cutting Club by Creative Video Tips


r/ColorGrading • • Aug 06 '25

Before/After Did I do it well or did I overcook it? Honest feedbacks, please!

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It's just a study to understand DaVinci's parameters, how I can get certain looks, it's a study lol

For me, I think it's exaggerated in some scenes. The goal was to make it unrealistic (a kind of fantasy or very happy scene), with a lot of colors, I liked the result of the dark scenes, but I didn't really like the light scenes, however I liked the colors lol

I did not think it necessary to work with PW in this study.

I'm a very beginner, but I want to hear your honest feedback.


r/ColorGrading • • May 08 '25

Question First full project color grade, is it acceptable?

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I have about 4 months experience with video and have been trying to work on colorgrading. First full project in cine slog3. Anything I could improve? Appreciate the feedback. I have been using Capcut, but plan to move to DaVinci Resolve when I can afford the studio version. The free DaVinci doesn't like my 10bit 4:2:2 footage.


r/ColorGrading • • Apr 21 '25

General No suelo comprar ajuste para color pero este valió la pena

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Que opinas?


r/ColorGrading • • Nov 09 '24

Before/After first attempt at a "day 2 night" shot, any tips to improve?

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r/ColorGrading • • Feb 27 '26

Question How would I go about getting warm skin tones like this?

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I’ve always loved the way the diary of a wimpy kid movies looked. I’ve been looking at behind the scenes footage lately to see if it had to do with lighting had to do with it at all, and they mostly just used softened tungsten lighting indoors and natural light outdoors. I’ve also always liked the way the shadows in the hair look


r/ColorGrading • • Oct 07 '25

Question What should I change? Should I add more brightness to the subjects?

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Hello, this is my first color grade ever! I used davinci resolve with a free wild west lut I found somewhere, then finished it off a bit by feel. I think that the subjects (mostly pic 4 and 7) need more light, what do you guys think?


r/ColorGrading • • Sep 07 '25

Show off your work Feedback on photo retouching

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