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You can use the Black and White Point controls in the following ways:
— Using the Black Point control: Dragging this control up makes a lift adjustment to raise the black point of the signal. Dragging this control to the right makes a lift adjustment to lower the black point of the signal.
— Using the White Point control: Dragging this control down makes a gain adjustment to lower the white point of the signal. Dragging this control to the left makes a gain adjustment to raise the white point of the signal.
HDR Grading Using Curves
When using various grading controls in the Color page to grade wide-latitude images for HDR output, you may find it useful to enable the HDR mode of the node you’re working on by right-clicking that node in the Node Editor and choosing HDR mode from the contextual menu (only available in Resolve Studio).
Using a node’s contextual menu to put that node into HDR mode
This setting adapts that node’s controls to work within an expanded HDR range. Practically speaking, this makes it easier to work with wide-latitude signals using controls that operate by letting you make adjustments at different tonal ranges such as Lift/Gamma/Gain, Custom Curves, Soft Clip, and so on.
Enabling Editable Splines in the Custom Curves
When the Curve palette is in Custom mode, you can choose Editable Splines from the option menu to expose Bezier spline handles on any selected control point, which let you make more precise curve adjustments whenever necessary.
Custom curve with editable splines enabled
NOTE: Beware of making curve adjustments that are too sharp, or with control points that are too close together, as they can introduce unwanted contouring within the image, causing flattening or solarization in parts of the image that you may not want.
NOTE: Beware of making curve adjustments that are too sharp, or with control points that are too close together, as they can introduce unwanted contouring within the image, causing flattening or solarization in parts of the image that you may not want.
NOTE: Beware of making curve adjustments that are too sharp, or with control points that are too close together, as they can introduce unwanted contouring within the image, causing flattening or solarization in parts of the image that you may not want.