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Hello all! I have an interesting color grading need that I haven't seem to found any solutions to, even though I think it would be a very useful technique.
I've read a lot about refining color palettes to reduce the amount of different hues in a scene as well as matching hues to a color palette (it looks more professional and Hollywood-ish - in an extreme example, Grand Budapest Hotel). A lot of that comes in during production design, costume design, and the way it's lit/shot, but I know color grading can really bring everything together and make it cohesive. Especially in regards to reducing the number of different hues.
Essentially what I'm trying to do is reduce the amount of hues in a scene by rounding all hues in a certain range - say, 1-20 - to a specific palette color - say, 14 - whilst leaving saturation and luminosity untouched. Ideally, every possible range of hues would be rounded to the 4 or 5 different hues I have in my color palette - i.e. hue value ranges 1-50, 51-100, 101-150, 151-200, and 201-255 assigned to 23, 75, 124, 155, and 220, respectively, or something like that.
It would also be interesting if it was possible to automatically round to a specific palette hue instead of predefining a range to be rounded. Another cool ability would be to define tolerance and "feathering", or how rigidly it rounds to a specific palette color.
If this is possible, I feel like this would be a really neat way to wrangle competing hues in a scene, match a predefined color palette, and/or establish a mood very quickly. I'm also assuming this would be a final-step grading procedure in one's pipeline. I'm very new to Resolve, but I've recently engaged it for this and other very technical grading needs.
Thank you for any light you can shed on my curiosity!
I've read a lot about refining color palettes to reduce the amount of different hues in a scene as well as matching hues to a color palette (it looks more professional and Hollywood-ish - in an extreme example, Grand Budapest Hotel). A lot of that comes in during production design, costume design, and the way it's lit/shot, but I know color grading can really bring everything together and make it cohesive. Especially in regards to reducing the number of different hues.
Essentially what I'm trying to do is reduce the amount of hues in a scene by rounding all hues in a certain range - say, 1-20 - to a specific palette color - say, 14 - whilst leaving saturation and luminosity untouched. Ideally, every possible range of hues would be rounded to the 4 or 5 different hues I have in my color palette - i.e. hue value ranges 1-50, 51-100, 101-150, 151-200, and 201-255 assigned to 23, 75, 124, 155, and 220, respectively, or something like that.
It would also be interesting if it was possible to automatically round to a specific palette hue instead of predefining a range to be rounded. Another cool ability would be to define tolerance and "feathering", or how rigidly it rounds to a specific palette color.
If this is possible, I feel like this would be a really neat way to wrangle competing hues in a scene, match a predefined color palette, and/or establish a mood very quickly. I'm also assuming this would be a final-step grading procedure in one's pipeline. I'm very new to Resolve, but I've recently engaged it for this and other very technical grading needs.
Thank you for any light you can shed on my curiosity!