Color Correction Look Book

The digital colorist's job is no longer to simply balance, fix, and optimize. Today's filmmakers often want to recreate the idiosyncrasies of older recording methods, or are looking for something completely new, to differentiate the look of a given project. Furthermore, end-to-end digital shooting, post production, and distribution means that stylizations and effects once created by the film lab are no longer photochemically available. The color grading suite has become the lab, and these sorts of stylizations are now part of the colorist's job description. In this follow-up volume to the bestseller Color Correction Handbook, Alexis Van Hurkman walks students through twenty-one categories of creative grading techniques, designed to give them an arsenal of stylizations they can pull out of their hat when the client asks for something special, unexpected, and unique. Each chapter presents an in-depth examination and step-by-step, cross-platform breakdown of stylistic techniques used in music videos, commercial spots, and cinema. These customizable techniques can be mixed and matched for their own unique effects and include:• bleach bypass looks• blue-green swap• blurred and colored vignettes• cross-processing simulation• day-for-night treatments• duotones and tritones• emulating film stocks• flat looks• flattened cartoon color• glows, blooms, and gauze looks• grain, noise, and texture• greenscreen compositing workflows• lens flaring and veiling glare• light leaks and color bleeds• monitor and screen glow• monochrome looks• sharpening• tints and color washes• undertones• vibrance and targeted saturation• vintage film looks