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The three modes of the Primaries palette also share two strips of controls for making more specific adjustments to different aspects of the image, such as Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Highlight retrieval, Color boost, and so on.
Like most parameters in DaVinci Resolve, clicking and dragging a parameter’s name or value to the left or right lowers and raises that parameter with a virtual slider, while double-clicking that parameter’s number lets you edit it numerically, and double-clicking that parameter’s name resets the parameter to its default position.
The top adjustment controls
— Temp: A specifically constrained Gain color balance adjustment that lets you adjust the image along a warm/orange to cool/blue axis corresponding to the naturalistic spectrum of color temperatures used for lighting. Raising this parameter performs a Gain color balance adjustment toward orange, while lowering this parameter to a negative value performs a Gain color balance adjustment toward a blue/cyan split. 0 is unity. The range is –4000 to +4000.
— Tint: A specifically constrained Gain color balance adjustment that lets you adjust the image along a magenta to green axis corresponding to the unnatural spectrum of color temperatures found
in artificial lighting sources such as fluorescent and sodium vapor lighting fixtures. Raising this parameter performs a Gain color balance adjustment toward magenta (sometimes referred to as “minus green” to correct for fluorescent lighting), while lowering this parameter to a negative value performs a Gain color balance adjustment toward green (“plus green” to correct for other kinds of lighting). 0 is unity. The range is –100 to +100.
— Contrast: The Contrast parameters let you quickly narrow or widen image contrast about a user-definable pivot point. Regardless of which mode you’re in, these parameters are identical. Contrast and pivot can also be adjusted using the DaVinci control panel via the CONTRAST and
PIVOT knobs on the Center panel’s default page, regardless of whether you’re in Lift/Gamma/Gain or Log mode.
This one parameter lets you increase or reduce the distance between the darkest and lightest values of an image, raising or lowering image contrast. The effect is similar to using the Lift and Gain master controls to make simultaneous opposing adjustments. Bright and dark parts of the image are pushed apart or brought together about a center point defined by the Pivot parameter. The “Use S-curve for contrast” setting in the General Options panel of the Project Settings (on by default) sets the contrast control to apply an “S-curve” to the image, such that the shadows and highlights of a signal will not be clipped when you increase the value. If you would prefer for these contrast adjustments to be made linearly, and for the signal to be allowed to clip when you reach the upper and lower boundaries of the video signal, you can turn this checkbox off.
— Pivot: Changes the center of tonality about which dark and bright parts of the image are stretched or narrowed during a contrast adjustment. Darker images may require a lower Pivot value to avoid crushing the shadows too much when stretching image contrast, while lighter images may benefit from a higher Pivot value to increase shadow density adequately.
— Midtone Detail (MD): When this parameter is raised, the contrast of regions of the image with high edge detail is raised to increase the perception of image sharpness, sometimes referred to as definition. When this parameter is lowered to a negative value, regions of the image with low