Thanks for this much underrated technology which is truly awesome, especially when you work with the curves instead of the wheels. With a few pulls and pushs of the curves you can create nearly every look you desire. One little comment: I wouldn't cal LAB a true color space (gammut) - IMO its more a color computation model that uses the three dimensions of L (luminance), A (green vs yellow), and B (Blue vs red). And the nice thing when doing adjustments: white alwyas stays white.
Alex I don't understand the purpose of the third node with the Highlights all the way down. It seems redundant to me. Could you please clarify? Thanks Steve
Thanks for lesson! There is more powerful way to use LAB color space using RGB curves, R for Luminosity and G and B curves for A/B channels. That gets absolutely phenomenal color contrast features.
thanks alot, just tried it, works great!! Im a total beginner so i just wouldnt know where actually to apply that skill, but hey at least i know it now haha :)
I cannot find any tutor as dedicated as you with DR and having watched all your tutorials which had improved my coloring skills, I will be enrolling on your course 'Color grading with DR 16' knowing i will get the best off. Kudos Alex.
I now use this technique as an adjustment clip on my graded C-LOG. Gives indeed a nice cinematic look… Thanks for all your simple but efficient explanation about Davinci Resolve.
Extremely helpful. Thank you. Love this channel. I only found it yesterday. Thanks for the work you put into this channel and helping teach us amateurs become better colorists and editors.
okay, i have 2 questions: 1) can i delete the third node afterwards? (the one where you dropped the highlights) 2) does this affect black balance, would i need to add a desaturate shadows node after the LAB node? this is an amazing technique by the way, really powerful base on which to build an orange and teal look. by pushing the colors to either the red or cyan/blue we can then qualify the skintones a lot easier! thank you so much🙌🏼😅 i used to use the RGB mixer to do this with: red channel: r=100 g=0 b=0 green channel: r=0 g=50 b=50 blue channel: r=0 g=50 b=50 but this technique looks way more natural😁
I think the 3rd node is to balance out your adjustments on the 2nd given that you do bring up your highlights to achieve red. I might be wrong though. Thanks for sharing, this is really helpful!
Strange. This is just to opposite of what I see in Photoshop Lab. Shadows get warmer and highlights get cooler. But why either happens I don't understand. I would think that Labshadow and highlight controls would affect the Lumenance only and leave color unchanged. I seem to not understand Lab as I thought that I had.
I think this is a very fast way to do color grading compared to all the tutorial i watched so far. But may i ask what is the purpose of the third node with tuning the highlights down? Thank you for the quality content :D
hello..I need a new PC system for video editing with Da Vinci Software ...my budget is around $2000 ..but I want a really good Video card please ..What would you suggest me ???
Nice technique to achieve color contrast albeit a very specific one but one thing bothers me. Why would you white balance the shot which already looks balanced. Like the image is supposed to look warm as implied by the candles. The balanced image just looks wrong. You wouldn't white balance a sunset, would you?
Im listen to the audio on my hdmi amp and your elbows are banging on the table and its picking up in the mic. Might want to go back to the arm option/mic
Surprising L*a*b* doesn't work in Davinci anywhere near the way I would have expected. You're right this is s fast simple way of making a blue red edit in few steps.
hello..I need a new PC system for video editing with Da Vinci Software ...my budget is around $2000 ..but I want a really good Video card please ..What would you suggest me ???
Hi Philippe. In that price range, I've found success with a Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 2060super, 32GB 3200 ram, 3x SSDs: OS/Programs, Project/Media, Scratch. This build's benchmarks compare favorably with with systems of much greater cost. Based on Puget Systems Resolve benchmarks, I get about an 820 performance rating with no overclocking. I've seen results of single PC builds costing much more getting around a 1200 score. I added a big spinning hard drive for off-line backup and archiving.
