Inverse the selection and introduce a faint vignette to draw the eyes towards the subject.įinally, you can add another serial node to do a technique called bleach bypass. You can adjust contrast in various ways.Īnother trick is to go into DaVinci Resolve’s “window” panel and make a selection around the main subject. Introduce contrast or minimize it according to your commercial video needs. Go into key input and reverse your previous selection so we can work on the skin. I add teal to create a more pleasant look to the water, but this is your personal preference.Īdd another node and connect it to the previous one. You can access those settings in the matte finesse panel.Īfter altering those settings, we will start introducing saturation to the water. Next, we will clean up the blacks and the whites found in the water before blurring the radius.

Go to your qualifier and turn on highlight before clicking on the water to select all of our subject. For this specific case, we will call the node water. Note that we are not dropping the black colors all the way down.Īdd another new node to fine-tune the look. All you will need to do next is play with the contrast to ramp up the color depth. So, to get started color grading your footage, add a new node and name it exposure/contrast.

We will be using footage of a swimmer in a pool. This tutorial will show you how to achieve a color grade style suitable for commercial videos, similar to advertisements or anything commercial related. Color Grading for a Commercial-Style Video N collaboration with YouTube creator AramK, we bring you a series of Davinci Resolve 16 tutorials to help you get your video project off the ground.

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