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To automatically adjust the white point of an image:
1 Click the White Point control. The pointer turns into the White Point tool.
The Auto Pick White Point control
2 In the Viewer, click on any feature that is supposed to be white such as a white wall,
white trim around a window, white blinds, a white shirt, and so on. As you drag the
White Point tool around, the RGB values appear as a tooltip to give you a better idea of
what the color is of the feature you’re about to click on. Make sure the feature you click
on is (a) supposed to be white, and not off-white, and (b) that it corresponds to an image
detail that’s not clipped, because that can make parts of the image seem white that
aren’t really.
As a result, the lightest parts of the image should appear much lighter than before, and
any color imbalance in the highlights should be neutralized. Unlike the White Balance
eyedropper, this adjustment is applied via the Gain controls in the Color Wheels
palette, which should appear with some manner of adjustment as a result.
Auto Color
The Auto Color command provides a quick way to automatically balance the blacks and whites
of a clip based on the current frame at the position of the playhead. As of DaVinci Resolve 16,
the A button in the Color Wheels palette and the Shot Match command available from the
Thumbnail Timeline contextual menu both now use advanced algorithms, based on the DaVinci
Neural Engine, to provide superior results when automatically adjusting color balance and
contrast. These controls have been developed to provide optimal results when working in the
Rec.709 color space, and at a gamma of 2.4, so they work well in conjunction with using
Resolve Color Management (RCM) to normalize media first.
 The A button performs an automatic analysis of the current frame at the playhead to
give a more consistently useful neutral starting point for further adjustment.
 The Shot Match command matches one or more clips to the color and contrast of
a graded or ungraded target clip. This updated version of Shot Match has been
designed to be used after you’ve used the A button on each clip in the operation, the
clips you’re matching and the clip you’re matching to.
If you’re in need of a fast neutral starting point for a range of clips, you can also use these
commands together, grading a target clip using the A button, and then using Shot Match to
match a range of clips in the same scene to the automatically graded example. Please note that
these commands are intended to provide you with a reasonably neutral starting point for
continued grading; they’re not meant to create creative or artistic grades.
The Auto Color button
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