hello my friends and welcome to another really cool color grading tutorial
in davinci resolve and today by your special request we're going to be doing
the look of the tenant so let's jump in davinci resolve and i'm
gonna show you how to do that
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so today we're going to be doing the tenant look and over here i have
a sample still image that we basically going to be matching our grade to
and it's going to be very simple and straightforward
the first thing we're going to do is to convert
this node into parallel layer essentially the first step going to be
exposure xp exp and i'm going to try to match the
exposure to a tenant so again let's click really quick to our
source footage and we can see that a lot of it happens
sort of between 256 and
512 so that's sort of like a lower mid tone so we're gonna match the same thing
we can also notice that the blacks are very separate from the mid-tones and
they sort of drop down to create that interesting contrast
so i'm going to try to match all that so what i'm going to do
i'm going to add a little bit of highlights i'm going to bring everything
down just like that and with the log
i'm just gonna drop a little bit of blacks down that way we have a nice
crunchy look just like in the tenant over here
one thing we can observe and it's very interesting when you create
looks like that that the white color actually white and the black beard
and the shadow is actually black so keep that in mind
when you create your own look it's very important we're going to come back to
that in a little bit the next note i'm going
to do saturation we're going to give a nice saturated
feel to it okay i'm going to crank all the way up
okay so that looks good let's do another note and this one i'm
gonna call pre look what i mean by that
that our tenet is sort of green and teal and our image is a little bit
warm so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna use
mid-tones or probably actually yeah the mid-tones is good
and just to navigate this slightly towards a little neutral image
where the skin looks nice and our image have very interesting look
so let's check that out before and after okay i like that so far i think it looks
good let's organize that and now we're going to create a new node
and we're going to call this one generally a look
okay what i'm going to do here i'm gonna use
temperature intent and with the temperature i'm gonna make it again a
little bit warmer and with the tint i'm gonna dial down a
little bit now let's compare and see where it was
standing huge difference but we're gonna get
there so something like this and with the tint
maybe something like that okay so it started looking pretty good
however i noticed that my contrast is a little bit different
than what we have here over here it looks nice and crunchy
i have a little bit washed out so what to do
because i'm already have my look going on and i don't want to add the contrast
to look well i can actually create a new node
and if i'm going to push and hold control
i can swap them so that's really cool now i can do my contrast node
ahead of it and just crank it up just a tiny bit so we have that nice
rich look going on so again let's compare it
okay looks perfect we actually kind of getting there
all right now the interesting thing with the look
let's see let's go back again not enough we can do a little bit more
we can do look a little bit more aggressive
let's see so something like that and with the mid tone we can probably
probably do something like that i think like that looks pretty close
however look what happened we started affecting
highlights blacks and the skin zones so that's not good
what we're gonna do by using qualifier i'm gonna limit
my exposure i'm gonna limit my look so i'm gonna use luma value and i'm
gonna go to the highlight and with the highlight i'm gonna go all
the way up so we can see that the dark area
going to be covered we do a little softening of that and the
same thing i'm going to do with the highlights i want to make sure i'm
protecting the brightest part of the image and
again let's give it a nice soft look a little bit of blur clean black a
little bit in a little bit clean white let's play
it back no dancing noise selection is clean
so that looks really cool however the skin is still a mess what can i do
so let's convert this into the layer note
and with the layer note let's do our mixing
to color okay and now if i'm gonna go to this bottom note
i can select skin tones okay just like that and i want to make
sure that our skin is nicely covered is nice and soft
okay again we're gonna add a little bit of blur
a little bit of clean black and a little bit of clean white
let's play it back a little bit and it looks great
so now let's see still looks a little bit awkward it has that amateur
look to it what we can do is to actually dial back
a little bit of saturation okay and if we're gonna go into selection
make it a little bit more let's see so something like that
something like that over here okay perfect
now let's work on the skin let's take a look at our tenant guy
okay our skin is still looks a little bit weird
a little bit too saturated so let's make sure we just saturate a little bit
and go to our vector scope okay and probably
do a little bit like that let's see we're gonna zoom in a little
bit closer
okay let's toggle before and after before and after okay so skin
looks good but what about hair that looks ridiculous well we're gonna fix
that too so with a little bit of extra selection
we're gonna go like that now we have all that creative control
let's see what we can do we need to make sure that we have a nice
finesse selection so something like that and then
that would be good make it a little bit wider
okay looks perfect let's see
now it looks a little bit pale so how we fix that
we can do a little bit like that adjustments
okay let's bring it all back and let's see
and now we can blend everything together so let's do
create compound let's toggle that compound node
okay now i'm gonna dial everything back because it's very extreme
okay and by dialing it back we're gonna do
something like that and i'm gonna do another note
and now we're gonna continue giving it a further look
without affecting too much of a hair or anything like that
so again we're gonna go temperature temperature like that let's see
a little bit green
okay going to little by little start refining it okay
let's see i want to make sure that the skin tones
look correct when we do all those adjustments
very important okay so skin tones look great now
and let's compare it to a tenant so we pretty much have the same effect
going on however here in the highlights it's a
little bit warm so let's do this one we're gonna call
refined this one we're gonna do do do do do do
this one we're gonna call yellowish and in order to do that we're just going
to use curve a little bit more and then we're going
to go into luma versus saturation
just like that and i'm going to completely desaturate
the whites okay and now let's see how that looks
looks really good and possibly we can add a little bit of glow
because a lot of times this was shot using anamorphic lens
i can tell right away how curved the image is
so let's do another node we're going to do
glow okay just like that not too much let's see not
too much a little bit uh brightness i don't want to make sure
we're not gonna we're not gonna clip anything
and we can see that we're actually clipping it over here
like that spread a little more
there we go so let's toggle before and after
okay that looks great and that's our look and let's see how well
it applies to this image so so far
these look really good and then boom that's our look all right thank you for
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