You’ll find the master wheel directly underneath the color wheels. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate how these regions operate is with the master wheel. We’ll go into more detail about that in a moment. So what are the ranges? They are separated as lift, gamma, and gain, which primarily corresponds to the shadows, midtones, and highlights, but not precisely. Each wheel represents a different tonal range, and the hue adjustments will, for the most part, only affect the specified range that corresponds with the selected wheel. However, the adjustments will vary with each wheel. In Resolve, this is a typical representation of the color wheels.Īlthough we’ll be focusing on the three to the left, there are four identical-looking wheels that also operate identically.

With that, let’s learn the basics of using the color wheels. And in fact, Adobe Lightroom has recently incorporated one, which is extremely cool.

The color wheels are a universal tool used similarly across all software with a three-way color corrector. Like our previous episode on the curves, we’re using DaVinci Resolve.

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