Color Correction Resources

Table of Contents

1. Equipment
2. Websites and Forums
3. Books
4. Training
5. Online Tutorials

1. Equipment

• Input Devices:
  • Tangent Devices controllers
  • JLCooper Electronics controllers
• Broadcast Monitors:
  • List of Broadcast Monitor manufacturers
  • Broadcast Monitor's buyer guide
  • Broadcast Monitor Reference Site
  • eCinema Systems broadcast monitors

2. Websites and Forums

• Apple Color Forums
• Creative Cow Apple Color Forum
• Color User Library and Color User Forum

3. Books

• Video Color:
• The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction
• Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema
• Apple Pro Training Series: Color
• Apple Pro Training Series: Encyclopedia of Color Correction / Field Techniques Using Final Cut Pro
• The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics
• Color Correction for Video, Second Edition: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image

• Photo Color:
• Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
• Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
• Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace
• Color Management in Digital Photography: Ten Easy Steps to True Colors in Photoshop
• Photoshop Color Correction
• Real World Color Management

• General Color Topics:
• Color: A Natural History of the Palette
• Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
• Color - Messages & Meanings: A PANTONE Color Resource
• Correct Color: The Official Pantone Guide to Getting Accurate Color in Your Digital Images
• Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media
• Color Index 2: Over 1500 New Color Combinations. For Print and Web Media. CMYK and RGB Formulas.
• Color Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Understanding Color
• Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers, 2nd Edition

4. Training

• Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color
• Grading in Color
• Color Management Essential Training
• Working with Color
• Apple Color Essential Training

• Getting Started with Apple Color
• Digital Color Correction - The Final Cut Studio Workflow with Apple's Color
• VideoMaker Color Correction eDocs and eBooks:
  • Color Correction 101
  • Color Correction 201

5. Online Tutorials

• Colorgrading Monitors: What Works, What Doesn't (Podcast)
• Creative Cow Apple Color Tutorials:
  • Tracking Vignettes
  • Saturation Curves in Color
  • Custom Shapes in Color - Final Cut Help
  • Preparing Your Sequences to Go From FCP to Color
  • Introducing: Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color
  • Apple Color: Building Vignettes in the ColorFX Room
  • Apple Color: Auto Balance Feature
  • Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color?
  • Apple Color: First Time You Launch
• Apple Color Video Tutorials:
  • Color Room 1: Setup
  • Color Room 2: Primary In
  • Color Room 3: Secondaries
  • Color Room 4: Color FX
  • Color Room 5-8: Primary Out to Render Queue
• Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro Color tutorials:
  • Color Workflows With Different Types of Sources
  • Introduction to COLOR
  • Controlling Apple's Color - EclipseCX Control Surface
  • Vignettes in Color
  • Matting and Color Correction in COLOR
  • Color Tutorial - Working with Grades (Movie)
  • Creating Node Trees in Color - FC Studio 2
• VideoMaker's Color Correction Articles:
  • Color Correction Enhancement
  • Editing Color Correction 201
  • Editing Color Correction 101
  • Editing: Polished Work
  • Color Grading/Finishing Tool Review: Apple Color
  • Test Bench: Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista v1.0 Color Correction Plug-In
  • Video Editing: Coloring for Style
  • Video Editing: Color Me Perfect
  • Tools For the Creative Digital Artist
  • Video Editing: Put Your Best Signal Forward
  • Computer Editing: Film Effects
  • Computer Editing: Color Tweaking
  • The Wonderful World of Digital Color
  • Computer Editing: Video Filter Effects
  • Light Source: Lighting for Mood
  • Video Editing: Bright Ideas
  • Basic Training: The (Alien) Sky's the Limit!
• Larry Jordan's Color Articles:
  • White Balancing during a Color Change
  • Improving the Look of your Graphics and Text
  • Creating a multi-color credit scroll
  • Scopes in Final Cut
  • Technique: Setting Color's Scratch Disks
  • Why Video Bit Depth Matters
  • Technique: Setting Proper Video Black Levels
  • Video Scopes Warning
  • How to Read Scopes
  • What is Color Sampling?
  • A Fast, Easy Method for Color Correction
  • Color-Correcting Using Limit Check
  • Matching Colors Using the Match Hue Command
  • DV, Color-Space & Chroma-keying
  • Technique: Coloring a Filter