cameronrad

I work in photography/retouching and am currently trying to learn video/colorist tools. I found this quote interesting and wanted to get some thoughts on it. It's from Pascal Dangin who is a notable stills retoucher, owner of Box Studios in NY. http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/customers/case-studies/film/restless.php I haven't used Baselight before but have briefly used Resolve. Mainly so I can translate Resolve's tools into Photoshop equivalents. For instance, Offset/Printer Lights in Resolve = Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer's constant slider. Anyways from what I've found, I seem to prefer the way Resolve handles color vs. Photoshop. The only area where I felt Photoshop really excelled was with Blend Modes like Soft Light which Resolve has now. Has anyone else had any observations while working with curves decoupling luminance/color vs. traditional rgb curves?

We also have some quick n' dirty tricks that might work for video like a technique called Band Pass or Inverted High Pass. It's a variation of a common technique known as Frequency Separation. I imagine if it's keyed in for skin tones it might work. Explanation for the techy: http://sean-blog.twicebakedphoto.com/2010/08/vf-tools-of-trade.html\ More simple breakdown: http://www.derek-johnston.co.uk/blog/2014/2/tutorial-inverted-high-pass Frequency Separation: https://fstoppers.com/post-production/ultimate-guide-frequency-separation-technique-8699 Though nobody likes to admit it. when we are in a pinch we sometimes use frequency separation and this plugin on the low frequency layer. http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx Sometimes it's just much faster to use the plugin to fix patchiness than manually cloning. Also adjusting the luminance of the red vs. yellow can help smooth patchiness. Normally you'll have to lighten reds, darken yellows.

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/06/green-problem.html

God I love Tom Poole's work... He's also super nice! I'm a stills photog/retoucher but have reached out to him a couple times and he's always been really nice and helpful. He did a great job on this as well:

If anyone wants to generate swatches from a given frame one way is to: Open the image in Photoshop. Duplicate Layer (I do this as to not effect original image) Filter - Pixelate - Mosaic. Then use Eyedropper to select colors. Another way it to use Photoshop's Save For Web function to generate color table's that you can export as swatches. (Or combine the methods) Make sure you select gif, and use the colors slider to limit the number of swatches you'd like to generate. Attached is a screenshot of the Save For Web window.

I think the color looks amazing in this. What does everyone else think? Any insights or observations on it?