Color Grading: 10 Quick Tips from a Pro Colorist
Fred Trevino
21:27
Description
This course is 10 simple, yet essential, color correction and grading tips for anyone wanting to grow as a colorist.
In this course students will learn a few important insights about color grading that you can only learn through years of experience.
This will include:
- Why working in a dark environment is important.
- Insights on grading quickly and why it helps.
- How to recalibrate your eyes.
- Why having a catalogue of looks is helpful to a colorist.
- Why knowing cinematography is a top skill for a colorist.
- Why a simple grade can be all you need.
- Why grading someone else’s work is a real skill.
- Why knowing film stocks is necessary.
Students should take this course who want to improve as colorists and gain a few insights that set apart a professional colorist from a beginner.
This course is for anyone who wants to create accurate, creative, and original grades but doesn't have access to a full grading suite and are at the beginning of their color grading journey. Students will get a deeper understanding of the field of color grading and develop the confidence to start grading their own or other projects on a professional level.
About Your Teacher
Fred Trevino is a colorist with over 10 years experience. He's graded over 40 feature films and hundreds of projects for high end clients such as HBO, Versace, ESPN, Under Armour and more. His narrative color work has screened at well known film festivals like Sundance, Cannes, and Slamdance. His goal is to use the experience and skills he's developed over his career to accelerate your learning in the field of color.
What You'll Learn?
- Film & Video
- Cinematography
- Filmmaking
- Creative
- Adobe Premiere
- Color Grading
- Color Correction
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Instructor's Courses
Fred Trevino is a colorist at Beambox Studio and Top Teacher at Skillshare who has been grading projects for small, medium and large corporate clients, as well as filmmakers from all over the globe. He's graded over 50 feature films along with hundreds of music videos, short films, documentaries, commercials, web spots and more.
Some past corporate clients include HBO, ESPN, Shiseido, Under Armour, Sundance Channel, Tru TV, and Pepsi.
He's worked with countless talented DPs and directors and his color work has screened at several highly esteemed festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, and Slamdance. Along with grading he enjoys doing street photography in New York City where he lives.
As a first class he recommends Introduction with a Pro Colorist and then getting a few quick tips with 10 Quick Tips from a Pro Colorist. From there his class Da Vinci Resolve: The Video Editing Workflow, An Absolute Beginner's Crash Course, Creating a Cinematic Look, RAW vs LOG, or How to Match Shots in Da Vinci Resolve is the way to go. Then, his most advanced class Color Grading: Work in the Film Industry will guide you through a full grade meant for a client!
If you're a Premiere Editor and want to know how to move your project to Resolve for grading check out : Advanced Color Grading: Edit in Adobe Premiere Pro & Grade in DaVinci Resolve . Lastly if you've been curious about what it's like to edit a project in Resolve check out the latest class below! (lots more classes below)
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View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 12
- duration 21:27
- English subtitles has
- Release Date 2024/01/08
