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Adding Style
Of course, it’s not all about subtlety and correction. It’s often appropriate, when grading music
videos and commercials, for instance, to add some radical style to a piece. Here, too,
DaVinci Resolve provides an abundance of features for manipulating unexpected aspects of the
image; for example, by abusing the Custom Curves to create the illusion of chemical
cross-processing.
Custom Curves controls
Original image
Image enhanced with Curves
DaVinci Resolve’s node-based image processing makes it possible to use more exotic node
structures to create effects using composite modes, such as a colored glow generated by
adding two differently graded versions of the same image together using a Layer node.
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