ABSTRACT
Color grading means using color tools to create a special visual style or look for film directors' film. Color grading can involve very simple, subtle tweaks to basic scene tonalities to enhance a mood or conjure a historical era, or it can radically alter brightness, color, contrast, and visual texture to create an expressionistic visual style. Most non-linear editing systems bundle a color grading toolset of some sort. Premiere Pro comes with Lumetri Color which includes several panels with increasing levels of complexity and color grading power. Think of each Look-Up Table (LUT) as both a production tool capable of transforming washed-out LOG footage into images film directors can accurately monitor, and a postproduction color grading shortcut that they simply drop into a selected clip, scene, or video track. James Laxton then asked colorist Alex Bickel to create a LUT based on the characteristics of the Fuji film stock common to many of the photographs.
