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Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance

Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance

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Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance

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- There's one more scope to take a look at, and that's the histogram. The histogram is sort of a catch-all scope. It shows a lot of things that the other scopes that we've taken a look at show us. But it's also very familiar to a lot of people, especially photographers. A lot of photographers are used to simply clicking a button on the back of their camera and a histogram popping up. And by using the histogram, they can evaluate overall color balance in their snap, as well as overall exposure. So, back here in DaVinci Resolve, I'm gonna switch my waveform over to histogram. And you'll notice, at first, it seems like a weird kind of statistical display. That's actually because it is a statistical display. These little peaks that we get, for the red, green and blue channels, indicate how many pixels are present at that portion of the tonal range. Another way of thinking about the histogram, is that it's like a RGB parade, just kind of tilted on its' side. So zero is down here, with…

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