User Manual

Editing color channels via individual curve adjustments lets you make smooth color-channel
specific corrections, or you can make radically individual adjustments to create a wide number
of creative effects.
Turning off curve ganging lets you
independently adjust each curve
TIP: When curve ganging is disabled, the Luma curve allows you to adjust the Y
channel by itself, which is similar to using the Y-only Lift/Gamma/Gain knobs of the
DaVinci control panel. When making this type of adjustment, increasing luma contrast
results in a perceptual decrease of image saturation.
Copying Custom Curves From One
Color Channel to Another
Even if you’ve unganged the Custom curves, you can still mirror one curve’s adjustments to
another by copying it using the “Copy to Red/Green/Blue” commands in the Curve palette’s
option menu.
Curve Intensity Sliders
Four Curve Intensity sliders to the right of the Curve Editor, one for each channel, let you mix
between the current curve’s effect on the clip, and the original state of the image before you
altered the curve. The default Intensity of 100 results in that curve exerting its full effect on the
image, while an intensity of 0 results in that curve having no effect on the image. The Intensity
sliders provide an easy way to “split the difference” between a curve adjustment and the
previous state of the image.
Lowering the Curve Mix slider
reduces the effect of that curve’s
adjustment on the image.
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