User Manual

Color Wheels Palette
If you’ve had any exposure to color correction tools in any application, the controls found within
the Color Wheels palette should look familiar. These controls correspond to the most basic
color correction functionality available in DaVinci Resolve, and are designed to let users without
control panels have easy access to color balance and YRGB contrast manipulation using a
mouse, tablet, or trackpad.
Color Wheels for primary grading, in Primaries mode
The Color Wheels palette has three distinct modes of operation:
 Primaries Wheels mode contains the traditional DaVinci Lift/Gamma/Gain/Offset
controls that allow tonally specific yet widely overlapping regions of adjustment.
 Primaries Bars mode affects the same Lift/Gamma/Gain/Offset controls as the Primaries
Wheels mode, but the bars interface lets you make vertical slider-driven adjustments to
YRGB lift, YRGB gamma, and YRGB gain, as well as providing a slider-driven interface
for Offset.
 Log mode contains Shadow/Midtone/Highlight/Offset controls that offer more
restrictive yet customizable regions of adjustment intended for making adjustments to
log-encoded image data.
Which mode you use depends entirely on what kinds of adjustments you need to make.
Opening the Color Wheels Palette
Using the DaVinci Control Panel
You can open any mode of the Color Wheels palette by doing one of the following:
 To open the Primaries Bars: Press SHIFT DOWN and then PRIMARY.
 To open the Color Wheels: Press SHIFT UP and then PRIMARY.
 To open the Log controls: Press SHIFT DOWN and then PRIMARY. Alternately, you can
open any of the other Color Wheels palette modes, and then press the LOG soft key on
the Center panel of the DaVinci control panel. Press the MAIN soft key to return to the
more traditional Lift/Gamma/Gain mode of adjustment.
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