Davinci Resolve: Skin Tone Secrets
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- What makes skin tone “good” or “bad”? What can we do to influence it in a positive direction? In this video we’re exploring concepts and techniques for nailing skin tone inside Davinci Resolve.
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dude… that advice about increasing or decreasing sat depending on whether we are moving towards a secondary or primary color is just pure gold!! Those are the technicalities behind stuff that not many knows about, not even some of the pro colorists here on UA-cam. May be that’s where your color scientist degree really shines 😹 Thanks a lot!!
Finally something about skin tone from an actual colorist !! Also I would definitely want to see an ACES in depth tutorial ,but I am also struggling to understand Calibration properly.
Would you like to consider a tutorial on that as well?
Hey Cullen! This is great. Thank you so much for sharing this. I think one of the greatest parts of this tutorial that separate you from what other colorist tutorials are doing is you're helping people to understand how to think like a colorist. I think so often tutorials are about how to achieve a certain result. This is not inherently bad, but it doesn't help people to grow as a creative thinker. What you're doing is helping people to understand how to go about creating good looking unique results!
I totally agree, i saw his video yesterday, and i have watched every single short video he has
You are a great tutor, imo the best on UA-cam in the field of Color grading. The calm, decisive tone of your voice is a bit undercut by the nervous musical soundtrack however. I’d prefer your tutorials without music.
Main principle or lesson here is that it’s all contextual. In the last sample image, her skin looked unnatural but it was a good fit for the subjective look of the overall image. Brilliant share! Thanks Cullen!
Tutorial on ACES would be great
Please make a video on ACES 🙏
I'm in awe of the amount of effort you put into these videos. Thanks a lot! I feel like I've suddenly gotten 10x better after discovering you.
ACES, please!
Next YT channel that's going to blow up, your videos are so amazing. Appreciate all the freely shared knowledge!
This is the best explanation in my opinion when considering skin tones. Rarely do any other videos mention the creative mood intention and are often targeting a standardized skin tone appearance. Great video!!! Thanks!!!
Thanks for bringing up this important concept about natural vs intended creative skin tone grade.
EXCELLENT tutorial, I finally understand smth I've seen others talk about but not nailing with the same clarity and understanding that your experience and backgrounds gives you. Thank you!
This answered my questions perfectly. Thank you so much.
It's insane that this content is free, it's so advanced
Precise to the point thanks mate !
Excellent video! Very well explained and laid out. Thanks 🙏
From watching more recent videos of his, I feel like today Cullen would make a much broader adjustment, even with an unqualified offset, instead of these hue-vs-hue curves?
Now, i am in lightened from this discussion.. thankyou so much
Hi, I'm new to your channel. as I've watched many tutorials on this topic but so much explanation in just 8 minutes. thankyou for simplifying the skin tones. but Mr. Cullen you made it easy to grasp.
This was just perfect thanks. Easy and simple,
Sure thing!
Hi Cullen, thanks very much for another great video. I am fairly new to Davinci and recently I colour graded a wedding highlights film. I was using a qualifier for every shot to try to "perfect" the skin tone within the look which was taking forever! Qualifiers can obviously be very useful but I loved how you showed they don't always need to be used for skin tone with an overall look.
Thanks for taking the time to reply Cullen - it's much appreciated. That's very reassuring :)
Wonderful video and quality content right there! Could you make a video about export delivery? Gamma tag + shift, colorspace for multiple platforms such as cinema, web and broadcast.
Thanks Cullen, short but great information.
This has to be the first video I have seen where you have suggested moving the skin tone with the feeling of the grade! Thank you! that is freeing, I have done grades and then try to put the skin tone back on the vector scope line and it looks so out of place. Thank you! Also yes ACES!
Thank you so much for sharing this
Your videos are excellent!
Really fantastic video
Just helped you to cross the 10k border :) Great videos - thanks for sharing. Your skin-tone workflow is something I will definitely try out. Would love to see a video from you on you would deal with 8-bit footage.
So helpful!
Hey Cullen, any chance you could do a tutorial on a muted/moody grade as you’ve done in the last clip? The application of skin tones vs creative intent would be awesome to see in a moodier setting.
So from what I gathered, assuming naturalistic lighting, a good rule of thumb is to get the skin tone to sit on that line for the base color correction, and then leave it more subject to creative intent on the grade afterwards?
Can you cool off an image using the offset wheel instead of a dctl?
Thank you!
Would you advise that one starts with skin tones first, then create a look after? Or look first then skin tones. Because based off my experience, starting with the look first then skin tones after works better as my skin tones don't get affected by the look. I just blend the skin with the Look. But I'd like to get your input or if there's a video which will illustrate/answer my question, please refer it to me. Thank you!
i wanna do color correcting to wonder years the classic show how can i do that when its mutiple scene changes for each episode is it a quick way to do these settings
Great vids, subbed and will watch them all. Nevertheless, I found that in your final example, the girl ended up looking like a zombie. I would have gone all the way and protected her skin, even if that meant me having to track the face, hands etc for every actor in every shot as well pulling separate skin keys for all of them. I often see skin tone protection being neglected in TV programs, even movies, and I understand the lack of time and budget, but the results are invariably dreadful.
Can you make the preview image bigger by turning off the gallery? 😀
nice
How do you drag like that with the eyedropper? 04:56
Excellent point about shifting skin tones for creative intent. I would think that shifting warmer or cooler is much more acceptable than shifting magenta or green. What's the best way to shift cooler or warmer?
@@CullenKelly I would assume going up or down in the Temp box is the best (certainly is the easiest), but I didn't want to assume that was the way you'd do it.
👍 I'd like to see how you did that in Nuke!
@@CullenKelly I see, thank you.
Hey Cullen, really digging all of these videos. I'm about to start a grade on a short I shot and am just getting caught back up with techniques and processes. Wondering if you ever use qualifiers while doing a pass on skintones? I know you don't like using qualifiers in a broad sense but sometimes skin can be tricky depending on wall color and other hues within the scene. Thoughts?
Hello. I'm new to your channel. I really like the way you present everything. Do you have a beginners course for sale anywhere online? I'd like to work my way up through the fundamentals. Thanks.
@@CullenKelly Great, thanks!
I just wondered why you used the power window on the timeline level? Could you do the same on the clip level?
@@CullenKelly ah yes thankyou
4:37 - how did you turn that highlight mode on? I cannot use this tutorial without knowing that :/
Shift H
Really good info, but PLEASE lose the underlying "music" soundtrack so we can focus on what you are saying instead of having to delineate your voice from the background noise.
I heard nothing he said because all I hear is the 303 in the background music
😀👌🏻
when doing the creative skin tones . how would you determine it. is it all depends on eye ?
Спасибо, вы помогли мне разобраться со своими фобиями) Skin tone is a perceptual perception.😉
Get rid of the background music please it is distracting.
Helaas kan ik deze niet volgen. Dit door die verschikkelijk adhd-muziek, op de achtergrond voorgrond achtergrond voorgrond.