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Chapter 112
Introduction to
Color Grading
For over thirty years, DaVinci has pioneered the development of color
correction hardware and software designed to enhance visual images
acquired from film and video. This release of DaVinci Resolve possesses
our newest and most evolved professional color correction tools yet.
However, for all its technological sophistication, DaVinci Resolve is merely
a tool that requires the hands of a skilled artist to realize its full potential.
Subsequent chapters of this user manual cover the DaVinci Resolve
grading tools in the Color page in great detail, but before getting into the
specifics of color balancing and contrast adjustment, Power Windows, and
Custom Curves, it’s important to step back and consider what these tools
are for, and why you’re learning to use this application in the first place.
This introduction is for those of you who are new to this process we call
color correction, or color grading. If you’re a veteran colorist then you
might want to skip ahead, but if you’re just starting out, the following
sections are intended to describe the many goals of color correction, and
how the DaVinci Resolve toolset has been designed to address them;
making it fast and efficient to alter images in innumerable ways as we
elevate raw footage to cinematic art.
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