From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The ColorLookup node

The ColorLookup node

My personal favorite the color lookup node uses curves to adjust color. While it's very powerful and gives you lots of control, it can be difficult to use. Here we'll see how to use it, not only for color correction, but also to match the color between two very different plates. I'll select the read node here, and then come up to the color tab and find my color look up node here. By the way, this of course, is where you'll find the color correct node and the gray node that we saw earlier. So, if I select the color look up node, it gets inserted in here, and we're ready to go. The first thing I want to call your attention to are these three color bars. You'll notice as I move them over the picture they wiggle like a son of a gun. They're actually reporting the RTB value on the cursor. For example if I come over here and do a Shift > Command or Ctrl and draw a rectangle. It locks them into that value, and you can see that's a blue sky color, blue, green, red. I come over and sample…

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