During these years working with different footage, I understood that at the main baseline of a great color grading stands a professional and complete know-how of few important topics that are just about color itself and how to visually read it.

There are powerful tools inside Resolve that don't lie.
Learn to know when to trust them for a sure win.

Don't fall in the LUT's TRAP.

Apply a creative or conversion LUT might be changing your whole color scene; and that's one of the main errors that beginners always do.

It might make it artificial and unnatural, and you don't want that.

Sometimes, watching at your image might be the 50% of the whole workflow. Let's discover it inside here.

It might be tempting to take a scene and reinvent the whole mood of it in just a click.

But what's the deal behind the Color Grading Process?

Well, as a Colorist, you work on footage that comes from a shooting list, that comes from a script, that comes from a.. yeah, you got it, a Story.

Being faithful to the Story is the first rule you have to follow if you wanna grade in the best and correct way, keeping consistent and strong the whole flow of visual content.

Before color grading, before shooting, before the script, there's a big whole vision inside director's head.

You need to put it inside the project.

Thinking about emotions you want your film to evoke, and push all the colors in the scene in their right directions, will help you bring that vision outside the director's head, and inside Davinci Resolve.