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Colour grading advice…
Hi Guys
Thought I would ask for some advice on a “go to” color adjustment option that should be used to enhance the tone of the attached image.
The screenshot, is of original footage supplied that hasn’t had any editing applied. As you can see, it is washed out, with some exposure throughout, and red skin tones. I don’t think much lighting was used or taken into consideration as shot onsite in office environment.
Anyway, have tried playing around in warming this footage up, but to not much effect (using the Color correction tool). Therefore was wondering if anyone had advice on the first/main correction tool they would apply to start getting a warmer color colour throughout this shot (especially the skin tones).
Thanks for your help, much appreciated.
Matt
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5 Replies
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Learning the Color Board in FCP X would help your overall production skills. There are several good tutorials out there.
Mac Pro Video
https://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/finalcutprox107-color-correction-techniquesColor Grading Central
https://www.colorgradingcentral.com/final-cut-pro-x-color-grading-table-of-contents——
Plug-in for FCP X – Finisher
CrumplePop – Finisher – works well, render times are long.
https://www.crumplepop.com/finisher-plugin/Plug-in for FCP X – Levels and Curves
https://www.nattress.com/?q=LevelsCurves%20There are more out there, but this should get you started.
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Using Apple Color (or anything similar), you just need to bring the highs to a more yellow tone (since there is already a red tone in the skin). If needed you can add some orange to the mids, but that’ll add an orange tint to your gray background. For the shadows/lows, I’d usually add some dark blue/purple, but very scarcely. It just helps make the warm tones look warmer. Other than that, play with contrast and some light filters.
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Here’s what I did. The Primary grade was to bring the mids down quite a bit till the bottom of the graph hit black. I also brought down the highlights so that the image is exposed at 90%.
Secondary 1, I keyed the background and sent shadows, mids and highlights blue a bit. This makes the guy pop off the background
Secondary 2 is a vignette to frame the subject.
Primary out, I pulled a bit of cyan into shadows of the red curve and red to highlight. I added a bit of blue to the shadows of the blue curve. I left the green curve alone.
Luma curve a bit of density to the shadows. Shot’s a wrap.
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Depends on what type of skin tone you like/would like to create, but this is a test I did, using two corrections including a color mask (for the face color):
(If it looks to red it’s probably a browser thing, when I tried to preview my post the small embedded image in my post looked ok, but when I clicked on it and viewed it in full size it looked very red. If possible, download it and open it up i Photoshop. If the ICC-profile is lost it should have an sRGB profile appended to it.)
I hope it’s ok for you and the person in the video that I did this test, otherwise let me know and I delete the image.
Cheers,
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G’day guys
Thanks for the quick replies, much appreciated.
All great responses, will read up on the tutorials posted by Garry. I have used the settings you have attached Petter, will give these a go, but looks good from what I can see. Very clearly illustrated as well.
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