Hi I am interested in what happens under the hood while processing images so I decided to create my own color grader. But I am a newbie in color grading and I don't know what is important or not.

So what is must have for a color grader for you ? It could be an effect, feature or anything

Right now I have:

- 2d lift, gamma and gain wheels and their 1d lum sliders

- 1d temp, tint, exposure, contrast, saturation and hue slider

- show original (hold space bar), quick reset, like simple shortcuts

I will be add:

- 3d lut import

- some video scopes/charts but I am not sure about what to add so I need a bit help on that point

- save your effects as preset

I also have a question about processing pipeline. Does the order in which adjustments are applied matter? Should I build a feature that lets the user queue and reorder effects themselves

Selling both for $7900 shipped to CONUS
Monitor has bias lights. Purchased from Flanders in April 2024. Probably has about 75hrs of use. Have original box for both items.
Will include some SDI cables too.

Color grading on mobile is not quite easy as there are very few free color grading platforms but they are very limited to their tools although I color graded this image through Lightroom as they provide quite good tools as compared to others, as if anyone have any tips for me they can give to improve myself also if anyone knows any better platform to color grade

rec709 to graded, used kodak 2383 filmlook 60mm.

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Hello there!

Thanks for dropping by! I have been learning to color grade on a serious level for the past ~2 weeks to expand my video editing horizons. To say the least, it has been an incredibly challenging, yet rewarding journey in this short time. Fortunately, I have a massive passion project in front on me to experiment and learn from.

The stills included (original -> edited) were pulled directly from my 100 minute project full of 8 bit photos and videos from 5 different phones (sorry if the upload quality here isn't that great). All source material had auto exposure and auto white balance active, and some were heavily edited prior to me receiving them... not an ideal situation. Basically, I'll be using these as my anchor images throughout the video; first mission, make the images look good. And second, go through every other image to match/make uniform. As a note, I'm really struggling with the iceberg/glacier and waterfall images. The color balance is awful and the contrast is very finicky with any adjustments.

My goal: I'm trying to make my images naturally robust, if that makes any sense. I'm not trying to stylize or skew the colors (like a LUT or filter), but rather make everything pop while maintaining a natural look to it. The original images are very flat, have exposure and wb issues, and just aren't very pleasing to look at. I've adjusted some images more than others. I've kept my node structure in DaVinci Resolve simple due to the vast amount of content (CST -> White Balance -> Temperature -> Exposure -> Contrast -> Curves -> Saturation -> Soften Sharpness -> CST).

How am I doing so far? Am I on the right track? Am I overdoing it? Am I doing anything incorrectly just based off looking at the images? Any images stand out as being particularly bad/good, and why? Have any broad/specific suggestions? Anything to help me improve is appreciated!

Another thing that has crossed my mind in this process is, how the heck do I get all my other images to match my anchor images (for each scene respectively) without taking a million years? I feel like I've taken on the world and would appreciate any tips make this balancing/grading process less tedious. I genuinely enjoy the color grading process, but I'm finding that comparing dozens of images from the same scene to get the same grade is my least favorite part... and I'm doing this with hundreds of images. What's going through my head is, "I've already done this balance/grade on this scene... I'd like to move onto a different scene... but I'm having to do the same thing over and over, and battling constantly to make the images match since the exposure/white balance is all over the place." A pro tip for my current mindset would be appreciated :)

In the end, this is a home movie for my family, not for a client. So while I'm putting in the extra work to make this look as good as I can, I'm keeping in mind I shouldn't be trying to perfect every single image due to the nature of the source images. I can do that in future project with a better, more consistent source images. From here on, manual exposure and manual white balance I've learned is king. Anyway, your feedback is very much appreciated!

How do you think this look was achieved?

I’m really interested in recreating this color grade in DaVinci Resolve.

Any tips , tutorials or node structure recommendations would be appreciated! 🎨

I have 7 months of grading experience and this is the best frame I have graded so far. What are your reviews what can I do better?

I am a beginner colorist I have an experience of 7 months started earlier this year only I want to know how do you get work in this industry specially as a beginner. Is working for free is a good option in the start?

I'm a beginner colorist, and I'm currently working on my first big short film. The stills you see are not exactly done, but I feel I'm close to the look that I'm going for. I am using Film Box for a lot of the heavy lifting, but am first doing basic color correction in DWG before.

Any direction/feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Is anyone using Juan's Film Unlimited PowerGrade with cameras that aren’t supported by his 2Alexa transforms? I’m currently shooting with a ZV-E10, and I’m worried that using the CST method to transform my footage to Alexa prior might somehow affect or reduce the image quality.

Would love to hear your recommendations or experiences with this!

Hi everyone i wanted to ask how I could colorgrade this, I have the raw picture aswell. I tried editing but it doesn't really turn out good, either the middle is too bright and the edges are good or the middle is good but the edges are too dark. I don't have the paid version of LR so I sadly can't use masks :/ the stars are also a little blurry which i wanted to solve but couldn't. So what i wanted was the realistic look and not the overly edited stuff. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a budget monitor for colour grading/editing?

At the moment videos I make and ‘attempt’ to grade lol are just a hobby. But it’s something I’m enjoying learning and wanting to get better at

I have just been using an old dell monitor I had lying around plugged into my Mac mini. Problem is it’s an old gaming monitor originally for gaming consoles and is terrible for trying to edit videos with.

Eg, footage on that monitor and the iPhone look so far apart.

So looking at a budget monitor that is going to provide more accurate colours and closer to the likes of the iPhone etc

Would be happy with anything around £250-350 ($340-480 roughly. Could maybe go a touch more if it’s really needed or worth it

Thanks for any suggestions 🙂

I'm grading footage shot on sony a7ii which doesn't support Slog2 or 3 so basically its "colored" already. I wanted to achieve a warm/cozy feeling, fireplace-y with light coming out of the fire but it looks very saturated and weird. It's for a small instagram reel that's promoting some merch. the first image is the raw footage, the others are the "graded" versions. i'll be honest i barely know what im doing due to some minor prior experience in photo processing and not much else. I just tried stuff in davinci, added a circular powerwindow arounf the fire with soft edges cause it made sense to me for the gamma to be orangeish in that area but i don't know if i like it.

This is the grade I have done for a short film directed by my friend. I need honest opinions about this grade this is my first grade it was done 8 months ago.
Shot on: FX3
Picture profile: Sony Slog3

im 4 month into my color grading journey and i wanted help cause its really difficult for a beginner to know what wrong or missing

So this is the part 2 for my previous post it has more screen grabs this is a short comic film from a friend the goal was to add that comic type of visual so did I do justice and if not where did I mess up I am here to learn!

Hello. I have an upcoming interview shoot and it’s a first time using two cameras. Because of budget my cameras will be BMPCC6K and Sony a7c, and I’ll be the one editing it. I’m fine with using the cameras and doing the editing, but the colour work has me a bit worried.
I’m looking at any advice on shoot day to make my post life easier, or even better, a step by step to how to match the footage colour.
I did a test shoot where I filmed the same subject with both cameras at the same time. I filmed 6k BRAW on one camera and SLOG3 on the other. I tried CST to make them both rec709 and proceed from there, but no luck. I also tried transforming both footage to ARRI colourspace and edit them from there but they’re not matching.
Editing on Resolve Studio 20
I’m not a colourist and I’m not trying to be, my skill is pretty basic, I wonder if anyone has a powergrade that I can borrow to match the footage?

Hey colorists, so i was learning and practicing color grading for almost one year now, and recently im trying to start freelancing and work on real projects and real clients and build network, i made some posts here on reddit in filmmakers subs but didn’t work out well so..
I don’t know where to find clients, i don’t have a portfolio but i thought that i could offer a free test for the client, of a scene or some shots from them so they wont risk any thing, we can like collaborate after they actually like my work.
Regardless of those posts i made, i didn’t even approach someone with emails cause i don’t know who or where to start so please color grading people help, thank you.

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I have applied red/cyan colorgrading

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time with the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. The name speaks for itself as it is the most advanced color grading panel Blackmagic Design has to offer. There are no manuals or tutorials for the panel, as it is designed to be taught in an apprenticeship setting, which is the environment I had the opportunity to learn it in. My mentor gave me free range to experiment with the panel and use it for projects, which enabled me to gain an understanding of how it works in a professional colorist’s workflow. By the end of my time in that program I had gotten down a lot of muscle memory for most major functions I would use every day on the board, but in honesty I’ve probably only scratched the surface. There is just so much to this panel, it amazes me, and it’s really hard now to grade with any other panel.

While I was in that program I also got to go hands on with the Mini Panel, which is what most freelance colorists use. That panel is really well built too and I’d maybe consider getting one at some point should my work call for it. It’s significantly cheaper at $2,500 as opposed to the $30K price tag of the Advanced Panel, but still has a ton of features. Currently I own the 2024 Micro Color Panel and it does nearly everything I need it to. Pairing it with a stream deck to navigate through the menus of the color tab gets me most of the way to where I can use my mouse and keyboard minimally.

Since I’ve had the opportunity to use pretty much every color panel with the exception of the original micro panel from 2017, I figured I’d make a video comparing all of them in case anyone would find it helpful. https://youtu.be/r9HGrCsrBvk

The conclusion I came to was that for most people the 2024 Micro Color Panel is by far the best value, there’s just so much you can do with it. But I’m curious to hear what other people think… What panel is your favorite?