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Smooth and flawless skin is essential in various genres such as ad films, fashion films, and music videos. It ensures that individuals on-screen look their best while minimizing distractions.

When it comes to creating captivating visuals in film and video production, color grading plays a vital role in setting the mood and atmosphere of a scene. One technique that has gained significant popularity among filmmakers is “Day-for-Night” color grading. In this blog, we’ll explore the art of Day-for-Night color grading and how it can transform your footage into a cinematic masterpiece.

We’ve rebuilt resolve’s 2383 LUT from scratch in Fusion and while this is an attempt to emulate the LUT as closely as possible, a creative flavour is added to it.

A process of achieving a film-like saturation on your digitally shot footage that is more subtle, dense, and pleasing to the human eyes.

In this blog, you’ll find out how to Modify a LUT correctly to retain the color characteristics of a stylistic LUT while subtracting the baked-in contrast as each creator’s creative preference requires a different contrast.

Hope you all are overflowing with ideas and beaming with imagination. In this blog, we will tell you what white balance is and guide you on how to fix it in DaVinci Resolve using a minimalistic technique.

This week we will guide you on how to create a halation effect on your digitally shot footage to give it a characteristic of a processed film, that will help you to achieve thematic expression for your videos.

Hope you all are overflowing with ideas and beaming with imagination. This week we will guide you on how to apply a LUT appropriately using Da Vinci Resolve software so that you don’t lose your artistic expression for technical accuracy.  

Here’s a quick way to make your 8-bit footage look like Film. This one is simple to use, quick and produces good results with widespread jobs. And yes, it works with non-studio resolve versions as well.

There’s a free film LUT in Davinci Resolve, here’s how to use it.

How do I download Kodak 2383 print film LUT? This article will explain how you can download it and use it.

We produced a LUT last year that was inspired by the No time to die trailer, and it was rather popular. Let’s see how it stands in 2021.

Layer Mixer Node and Parallel Node are critical to understanding the node graph in Resolve, and understanding them is important. In contrast to Serial Nodes, both the Layer Mixer and the Parallel Mixer allow for many inputs to be used simultaneously.

One of the most crucial aspects of a true film look is halation. Halation is an analog imperfection. A result of trying to shoot with film as a medium.

While you can achieve a lot of film looks using LUTs and traditional presets, we at colorist factory have been digging deeper into the looks offered under our Power Curves Project

As the new trailer for the new Batman 2020 is creating a fresh wave of buzz, we’ve been receiving a ton of enquiries for a tutorial on recreating a similar grade inside Premiere Pro.

On trying to break down a popular Monochrome look from the film “Inside Llewyn Davis”, we understand that Peter Doyle, colorist of the film used advanced techniques and a LUT to achieve this look.

The teal and orange look has been one of the most popular looks used in Hollywood. This is because teal and orange are complementary colors,.

One of the most commonly used print film emulations in Hollywood is Kodak 2383. It’s a legendary stock that was used in films like Joker (2019), Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, and many more.

Here is an attempt to bring the powerful “Tenet” look to your average camera footage. For this “look” we are using the “Waithe” look from our sunlight category.

We are gonna talk about best practices about how to apply LUT in premiere pro to make the process easier, faster and efficient (while maintaining image quality) and not that intimidating as you might have heard from folks around.

Color Grading not only transforms your film but also essentially defines it. It defines the very mood of your story by adding a colorful texture to your footage, which otherwise would have looked normal.

When it comes to visual aesthetics like color grading and set designs, recent bond movies have been a complete game changer for the franchise.

Color grading has been a crucial aspect of the Witcher series. The deep shadows hints the dark cinematic world of the Witcher world.

Colorist Factory has bundled 9 – 4K Anamorphic Lens Flares. Remastered for digital videos and motion graphics projects.