When you’re a photographer just starting to work with video, it can seem like color grading is a mystical art. However, it’s simply the process of adjusting the colors in your video footage to achieve ...

If you were tasked with designing a color video monitor, it’s pretty clear how you’d go about it. But what if you’d been asked to do so 20 years ago? Would it have been a cut and dried from an ...

Have you ever been concerned about exposure or white balance shifts while shooting video? When filming a single scene with ...

In all video editing programs with a color correction function, there are two graphs, or scopes, that you'll need to refer to: the vectorscope and waveform monitor. Reading the vectorscope and ...

From the astounding shift to Technicolor in “The Wizard of Oz” to the blockbuster teal-and-orange color scheme made famous by “Transformers,” color grading is used to improve the visual aesthetic of ...