The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 6

Secondaries with the Pros

In the earlier chapters, we broke up color correction into various components or tasks, which makes sense when you are trying to learn something. In reality, these tasks are not performed in isolation, but in a more all-encompassing, holistic approach that includes revising work that was already done and fixing issues that actually developed throughout the color correction process.

Because of that, the following chapters, which are led mostly by our expert panel of colorists, will have a primary focus—such as secondary correction, or look creation—but will also include other elements—such as primary correction—or may jump into other elements of the correction, because that’s how the colorists actually worked ...