User Manual

Using DaVinci Resolve
The lift, gamma, gain and offset color wheels give you total control over the color and
tonal balance of your clips. To make a uniform adjustment to all colors for each tonal
region, drag the dial underneath the color wheels back and forth.
You can also use the curves palette to make primary color corrections. Simply click to create
control points on the diagonal line inside the curve graph, and drag them up or down to adjust
the master RGB contrast at different areas of image tonality. The optimum points to adjust are
the bottom third, mid, and top third of the curve line.
There are many more ways of doing primary color correction in DaVinci Resolve and check the
DaVinci Resolve manual to learn how to use them all.
The curves palette is another tool you can use to make primary color corrections,
or enhance specific areas of your clip when using a power window.
Secondary Color Correction
If you want to adjust a specific part of your image then youneed to use secondary corrections.
The adjustments you have been doing up until now using the color wheels and lift, gamma
andgain adjustments affect the whole image at the same time and so they are called primary
colorcorrections.
However if you need to adjust specific parts of your image, say for example you wanted to
improve the color in the grass in a scene, or you wanted to deepen the blue in a sky, then you
can use secondary corrections. Secondary color corrections are where you select a part of
the image and then adjust just that part. With nodes, you can stack multiple secondary
corrections so you can keep working parts of your image until everything is just right! You can
even use windows and tracking to allow the selections to follow movement in your images.
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