Introduction
The Story of the Resurrection Plant
Why this book?
Terminology and Conventions
Removing the Intimidation of the First Move
How most people color correct (and why it sets you up for failure)
Who is this book for?
What’s NOT covered in this book
Essential online supplements for this book
Free video webinars
Free ‘Build Your Color Correction Muscles’ web training series
The Blueprint: Step 1 - Feeding your images water
The Blueprint: Step 2 - Making it rain
The Blueprint: Step 3 - Propagating your business
The Blueprint is a starting point
Color Correction doesn’t require ‘special’ eyes
Bonus Assets
Featured App
Summary
Getting Started
Prologue I - The Webinar
Prologue II - Building Your Color Correction Muscle Memory
Prologue III - ‘Color Correction’ vs ‘Color Grading’
Prologue IV - The Blueprint and ‘The 3-Pass Workflow’
Prologue V - Elements of a Professional Reference Display
Featured Apps
The Blueprint: Step 1 - The ‘Base Grade’
Reminder: The 45-Second Rule
Digging Deeper: The Importance of ‘The Base Grade’
A. Your First Move
The ‘BBC Rule’
Understanding RAW-, LOG- and Flat- Recorded Images
What about ‘non-flat’ recorded images?
BBC: Mini Summary
B. Your Second Move
The ‘SALly Rule’
The Rookie Mistake
Common Saturation Tools
How Saturated is Too Saturated?
Mini Summary
C. Breaking the Rules
Is Color Overwhelming Your Brightness Perception?
Examples
D. The Base Grade Workflow: Putting it together
Big Honking Moves First
Focus On: Waveforms and Vectorscopes!
Reminders
Workshop: Using a Featured 3WCC App
Workshop: LOG, RAW and the Base Grade using LUTs
Bonus Material: Working with LUTs
E. Recap: The Base Grade
Summary
Action Checklist
Next
The Blueprint: Step 2 -
Shot Matching
What is the Colorist’s ‘real’ job?
How does our workflow change in Step 2?
Working in Passes = Working with Multiple Filters
A. Evaluate for Continuity
Playing across the edit
Playing backwards
B. Fix Bigger Mis-matches First
Shot Matching is part of ‘building’ a color correction
The big mismatches
Mismatched saturation
Mismatched brightness
Focus on: Point-sources of light
Focus on: Mismatched ‘black points’ and ‘white points’
Color Mismatches? Check Brightness First
C. Next: Fixing the Nitty-Gritty
The Small Mismatches
Mismatched colors
Mismatched skin tones
Mismatched background elements
D. The ‘Minimum Viable Color Correction’
How detailed is too detailed?
Get to the end before getting nit-picky
E. The Shot Matching Workflow: Putting It Together
50 / 50: Your Eyes + The Scopes
Featured App for Shot Matching
Shot Matching Summary
Recap
Action Checklist
Next
The Blueprint: Step 3 - Finishing Touches
A. Pay attention to your eye
Channel your inner painter
B. Look for the Maximum Payoff First
C. The Fundamentals of ‘Look Creation’
‘The Singularity Effect’
The Value of the Base Grade and Shot Matching
High Impact Look Creation Techniques
The Vignette
Luma Qualifiers
Keying back skin tones
Working with Skies and Clouds
D. Featured App
E. Finishing Touches Summary
Recap
Action Checklist
Next
Working Like a Professional (with a specialty in Color)
A. It’s all about the Client
Helping them make big decisions, early
The ‘Hero Shots’ Workflow
Learning to ‘See Like Your Client’
B. How NOT to lose money or miss deadlines
How many shots can you correct in a day?
Core Information to bid a job properly
Selecting workflows based on budget and deadlines
C. Billing Clients Like A Professional
Core elements of a good quote
Track your time—and then Invoice
Billing using ‘cloud-based’ services
D. Featured App
E. Summary
Recap
Action Checklist
