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I gotta be honest, I’m not Adobe’s biggest fan, and I laughed at them when they released the color mode update and sponsored creators were saying it was going to stand a chance against DaVinci Resolve… but I gotta be honest, I kind of love it.

Every sponsored post I saw about it was explaining how Adobe has “reimagined color,” which I once again laughed at, but after trying it, they are kind of right. The ability to click and drag for contrast/pivot or click and drag your mouse up and down for exposure, which acts the same way as linear gain or HDR exposure in Resolve, is pretty amazing. Even the saturation acts like HSV sat in Resolve.

Every parameter has a scope that comes up except the scopes isolate only the parameter you are changing.

My favorite is shifting the balance, which acts like linear gain balance, by simply dragging my mouse. It’s really intuitive, easy to make quick adjustments, and the controls feel just right.

Would love to see Resolve do something like this, but curious what y’all’s thoughts are if you’ve tried or heard of it. I was just genuinely surprised at how fast I can get great looking results. Especially since lumetri color sucks so much.

I once read that colorist Tom Poole (drive, severance, euphoria) will start his process by using a film LUT that only gives the tone curve of film, not chroma. Curious if anyone else works this way or if you’ve seen any LUTS out there that do this. Or if maybe you can take a film LUT and extract only the tone curve element.

I’ve been absolutely enamored by colorist Damien Vandercruyssen’s work on the new AppleTV show “Widows Bay”. Every still is just a joy to look at. So rich but soft at the same time. I’m curious how you would go about creating this look? And something other than the answer “90% of the look is just good work from the DP and a good film print LUT”.

Of course there’s a million ways to achieve this look but I’m curious how you would personally do it. Whether it’s all native resolve tools and a CST, or maybe you’re using Jp499 and different DCTLs, or filmbox / genesis. Would love to hear yalls thoughts!

PS - unfortunately I don’t have any stills since the show just came out but I’ve linked the trailer incase you haven’t seen it