Primary Color Correction: Color Control Primer - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 78

Fig. 3.4 This RGB Parade display shows that the shadows and midtones of all three color channels match
fairly well, but the clipped highlights of the blue channel are low, resulting in yellowish highlights.
That's all well and good for a test image, but you would think that with
the wide range of colors and hues in a real-world video or film image, this
same concept wouldn't really work. But it does.
I'll correct this cool image of Chicago's famous Art Institute lion ( Fig-
ures 3.5 and 3.6 ) using DaVinci Resolve. But you can execute this correc-
tion with your personal favorite color correction application.
In Resolve's Browse window—switch to it at the very bottom of the
screen—look for the folder you copied to your RAID or internal hard
drive from the tutorial DVD ( Figure 3.7 ). Double-click it to call up all of
the footage into the Media Pool. Anything you want to color correct has
to be in the Media Pool.
There are lots of different colored elements in the picture with no
obvious white, black, or gray reference point . . . but believe me, they're
there.