Advanced Color Concepts and Grading
Now that we know about healing tools and fundamentals, it is time to kick our understanding of color up a notch. This involves two things to increase your skillset as an editor. The first is an increased knowledge of tools and settings for advanced color grading, and the second is the application of these tools to achieve the very popular looks that we see in modern edits. So, in this chapter, we are going to cover the tools and adjustments, as well as a discussion of High Dynamic Range (HDR) color spaces and their applications, finishing with the application of these techniques in a few very modern styles.
Now, you can get by with the basic color chapter earlier in the book; however, in my experience, as you get more mature in your editing, these techniques take you from good to great so that when people see your work, they know it from across the room. So this chapter is as technical as it is artistic, and coming back to the cooking analogy...