Use soft circle windows to brighten up or darken faces as needed, especially to compensate for dark or aggressive looks. Face windows/vignettes are very common in coloring, and can be a great tool in your workflow. This may seems like...
Key Tolerance vs. Key Blur - Tolerance ramps down the colors that are keyed instead of a hard stop. Blur softens the matte. Use tolerance to fine-tune a key that won't pick up something fully. Use key blur to soften...
Don't just rely on the eyedropper to pull your keys. usually it'll do a pretty crappy job. be sure to hit those qualifiers! Qualifiers are the hue, saturation and luminance sliders that let you fine-tune keys with tolerance, softness etc....
Pulling a key in your secondaries? Be sure you watch the footage in motion and make sure the key isn't too noisy. Few keys are perfect, but a noisy, noticeable key is unacceptable. If you can't get a good key,...
The last main question to ask yourself when working on Secondary Color Correction: "How can I make my subject look better?" One of your jobs as a colorist is to make your subject look as good as possible. Your grade...