Kevin McCormack

Hi, I am new to this and pardon me if this is a dumb question. But in Lesson 3, you do a color offset after your contrast curve. I experimented with different placement of adjustments relative to the contrast curve, and indeed, colors do affect the image differently down the chain after the contrast curve. It is best practice to create your contrast along with your LUT or pre your LUT (meaning that node sits before your LUT in the chain, and then make your other adjustments working backward sort to speak, your LUT and contrast nodes sits to the right and other adjustments on the left? It just seems to me that the contrast curve has a profound effect on what you get, that one would want to set contrast early and then work backward from that point, or am I completely misinterpreting the lesson?

Amazing class. Such wonderful insights. I love it.

Hi Am am new to grading, and lowest. So far I think the courses are amazing. Not sure if this is on purpose or not but the project file for lesson sixteen on skin tones is missing.

I want to thank the team at Lowepost for this tutorial. I think that this format is very constructive. Lots of tutorials show you what buttons to press, but when learning anything, I feel that getting to know the principles and the whys of a process or technique is always the most enlightening and engaging. Having Derek walk us through his process was a real treat. I do wish there were more details, having shots that got a little more specific with the details of what he was doing, but apart from that, I thought this was an excellent tutorial. Again, thanks for this, and looking forward to the next one.