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Now that we've

learned quite a bit about what contrast is
and how to adjust it in resolve.

Here are some of the tips that year.

I'm going to switch over to shop 43
and load our color transform.

And here's what I really like to do
when it comes to contrast.

Most of the time
I'm working under a color transform,

and so there's already
quite a bit of contrast and a built in.

However, usually it's not quite

poppy enough
and we'll want to add a little bit more.

So what I'll do is go for the contrast
knob and boost that up a little bit

until things
just feel a little bit more rich.

But then we're losing
some of these shadows here.

And so what sometimes we need to do

is grab the pivot
and bring it down a little bit

so that we're adding
more contrast overall,

but we're keeping more of the detail
and the shadows.

Now, here's before and here's after,
and it kind of just takes away

that sort of grayish

black feeling and makes
things just feel a little bit more poppy.

I feel like that's really nice.

The other thing that happens sometimes is

if you're up in the contrast in something
and it's feeling dark,

it might be just because you need to up
your exposure a little bit,

which I like to do in a note
before our contrast.

So let's label this contrast
and we'll call this one exposure. And

in this exposure note, I'll grab my offset
and just boost it up a little bit.

And this is going to do a similar thing
to adjusting my pivot,

but it's going to bring the overall level
up while keeping that contrast

and depending on your image

and kind of what you're going for,
that might be a better way to go.

The other thing I like to make sure of

when it comes to just adding more contrast
is I want to go into the project

settings and under master settings

and under general options under color.

I want to make sure to uncheck use S-curve
for contrast.

The reason I want to do that
is because if we have this on,

what resolves going to do when we add
contrast is kind

of mapped the colors
and sort of an S-curve like this,

which might look fine, but
I kind of want to be in control of that.

I don't really want resolve to do that
under the hood without showing me.

So now really what we're doing when we up
this contrast is we're doing something

sort of like this
instead of having an S-curve like this.

What's the advantage of using the contrast
knob versus the curves?

Well, the big advantage is just that
it's quick and it's one control, right?

So if I reset this,
I can boost my contrast up

and play with my pivot if I need to,

and get things dialed in by
just grabbing two sliders

instead of moving this around,
moving this where it needs

to be and kind of messing with this
a little bit more.

It's also really easy

if I have my contrast turned up
and I want to turn it down

a little bit to just kind of take it
and turn it down with one adjustment.

Whereas
if I had this set up in our curves,

I would have to make two adjustments
and then probably adjust after that.

So it's more of a speed thing, even though
you have more control and the curves,

it's nice for kind of basic contrast,
just to use the contrast knob.

Now if you're doing something
like building a specific kind

of creative look,
which we'll get into in a little while,

I do like the curves
because it gives you so much control.

So if we want a really specific kind
of roll off in our highlights or shadows,

we can really get detailed with our curve

and dial in kind of every part of our shot
if we want to.

But this is something
where you're getting a lot more creative

than kind of
just fixing a problem of low contrast.

So it really depends on what you're doing.

But those are the major ways that I would
adjust.

Contrast is just with the contrast knob,
maybe play with the pivot and make sure

that I'm dialing in my exposure in a note
previous to the contrast note.