These quick and simple controls can do wonders to get you a more balanced image than just a single white-balance color picker alone. Click the little + thingy next to the Lift and Gain wheels and you can whisk the control away and pick a black and/or white point in your image. These little controls are located in the Color Wheels panel (both the Primaries Wheels and Primaries Bars). Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t but it can be a good place to start.ĭaVinci Resolve has this little feature x 2 with the ability to pick both a black point and white point. Or maybe you need help with the exposure to get the image looking better with only a click.

You may be used to using the color picker or some color picker like tool in your NLE’s color grading system to select something that is supposed to be white and correct a color cast. I was working on one such job earlier in the year and I was turned on to a relatively new little feature that came into the software somewhere in the version 14s. As an editor I don’t do a lot of extensive color grading in DaVinci Resolve but every now and then I can’t send a job to a real colorist and the grade is beyond the color capabilities built into the NLE.

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