Secondary Color Correction Primer - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 199

Fig. 5.50
Secondaries Are Crucial
Knowing what to use secondaries for and how to decide what to isolate
and how is really critical to good color correction. That is why the next
chapter will finally bring in the full expertise of our expert panel of color-
ists. We'll have them walk you through a number of color corrections that
use secondaries. The tools for each application are really either limited to
tools that are available exclusively to a specific application (see the side-
bar on Color's “Secondary Curves”) or they are very limited to the color
vector isolation and shape-drawing tools that have already been covered
extensively in this chapter. I've sprinkled in some great advice from some
top colorists in these early chapters, but in the chapters to come, we'll
let these talented, dedicated experts show how to deliver creative results
with technical expertise.
Secondary Curves
One of the interesting sets of secondary tools in DaVinci Resolve and Apple Color are the
Hue, Saturation, and Luminance curves. These are unlike the curves that we discussed
in the previous chapter. These curves allow you to select a specific hue with a click of
a button and either rotate its hue, alter its saturation, or change its luminance value
( Figure 5.51 ).
A few pictures will be worth way more than the thousand words that it would take
me to explain this further.