Reddit mentions of Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) (Digital Video & Audio Editing Courses)

Lift, Gamma, Gain is where we hang out online.

Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema is the book we recommend.

Here is a tutorial that's more conceptual than just "film look." There are pay tutorials available on Lynda (your library probably has a free account). There are also color correction pay courses like Mixing Light and similar.

EDIT: yoo, former Atlanta born and raised guy here. Go see if you can visit CO3 and chat with Billy and the other artists there. Color is best learned in person

Here's a list of all the tools we use at our small studio

Content:
UE4
Maya LT
Substance suite (painter, designer, pro)
Photoshop (we have the suite so sometimes we also use video editing tools, website tools, etc, but not day to day)
Mudbox
Visual Studio

Company related stuff:
asana
perforce

We spend about $80 a month for software, and like $80 up front for mudbox for a month. I spent about $4000 on equipment to startup.

I guess if you learned the stuff in the content subheading you'd be able to make a game!

A personal note: a lot of people (everybody here probably) will talk about programming etc ... but I think that the most valuable time I've ever spent with a book was one on 3D lighting, which taught me behind the scenes what's going on in lighting engines (like UE4) and also general tips for getting stuff to look good.

A lot of writing on game design is crap. But a great great thing to read is the grim fandango design doc

http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf

We do not have a lot of these sorts of things in the game business, and reading something like that put into perspective for me exactly how a game is laid out before programming.

Watching the double fine documentary is good, too, and taught me a lot about managing a group of people. Also taught me what a "typical" studio looks like making a game from start to finish.

Here's a great book on color theory/design/how to use tools to color grade film

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483171621&sr=8-2&keywords=film+color+grading

And if you read nothing else on game design, read this:

http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/05164.51146.pdf

And you should read good critical game criticism, here, from andrew plotkin:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/gamerev/

He taught me a lot about game design.

I also recommend playing some early text adventures. I learned a lot from playing through two or three.

If I had one piece of advice it would be to design something on paper before you even do code. Lots of people will recommend how to start programming and stuff, but I think that is secondary to design. It's a means, but not really the destination. Once you've spent about a month with a project it gets pretty locked in, so you want to make sure that you have designed something you are proud of before you actually start making the thing

Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321929667/

Seriously.

This is a huge topic, an art and science blended so finely together.

Check out Color Correction Handbook by Alexis Van Hurkman
This goes really deep into the fine knowledge you need to know about color.

For practical software usage, I say checkout Colorgradingcentral.com, TaoOfColor.com, MixingLight. They've got a bunch of information, an archive of newsletters, and some paid tutorials as well.

Check out DaVinci Resolve Lite. It's a professional color grading program that's free.

The Color Correction Handbook by Alexis van hurkman is your first step.

Tao of color (weekly free newsletter.)

After that? Mixing Light (dedicated Web site for color only education.)

It's a dull topic to learn, but necessary. Adobe does a bunch of things behind the curtains, which makes it more nebulous and confusing.

This is the book that helped me a lot.

Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) (Digital Video & Audio Editing Courses) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321929667/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_HEAdAbV5W15YK

Don't spend money to build a room just yet, lets take this from the beginning. Having all the right tools in the world isn't going to help you from ground zero.

The software I use to do 85% of my professional work up to 4K/UHD is Blackmagic Resolve, and it is available for 0$. Totally free. Make sure you have a computer that can run it.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
(Download link on page)

Read the resolve manual included in the installer package. Written by Alexis Van Hurkman http://www.alexisvanhurkman.com/wordpress/

It basically can teach you the fundamentals of color, through explaining features of the program.

His Ripple Training is also very comprehensive and something to look at. http://www.rippletraining.com/products/davinci-resolve/davinci-resolve-12-5-core-training-bundle/

That being said, you should also read the following books:

Begin with this:
Color Correction Handbook also by Van Hurkman
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321929667/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QEGXRDSHFHYDDGD6QTX8

If you really want to go deep:
Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Digital-Cinema-Industry-Handbook/dp/0240808746

All that being said, a basic foundation in color can also be gained through stills manipulation in lightroom or photoshop first. This is how I learned, and I feel like it really gave me a head start.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
Read EVERY ONE OF THESE TUTORIALS. This site is an amazing resource for all levels of mastery, I find myself going back to it again and again to refresh and then reach deeper into the void.

(Disclaimer: I am NOT Alexis Van Hurkman, he's just a good dude, and kinda unavoidable when it comes to learning Resolve, since he literally was contracted to write the manual. Also hes good.)

Anyway. Once you've chewed through all that, youll either find its not for you, or youll be back for more, and youll have a much more targeted idea of what your first gear purchase should be to help you get the most milage.

You can do a lot of great work without any gear. Learn how to use the scopes, then a monitor can come later.

Hope this helps.

The Color Correction Handbook has some recommended lighting levels. If you end up going the HR route with this one you can point out recommended lighting levels for the kind of work you're doing. Might even get the walls painted a neutral grey too, since that's also recommended.

This is the bible of colour correction: Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) (Digital Video & Audio Editing Courses) 2nd Edition Alexis Van Hurkman

Hello! sure, first of all you'll need to read the bible lol
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

I learned by doing and by asking, specially at liftgammagain.com, there you'll find people who have movies in hollywood, cannes or running tv shows... they won't say anything about that but you can google them haha

To grade in an efficient manner... calibrate your monitor and learn to read the scopes and If you are shooting try to use at least a grey card.

Sure thing. You can also go back over the timeline and adjust the grade for a different deliverable in a different color space. This is called a “trim pass.”

Consider reading the Color Correction Handbook. It will answer a lot of your questions.

Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) (Digital Video & Audio Editing Courses) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321929667/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_29tYBbHNJV4VG

Alexis Van Hurkman:

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667

And yeah, great book to walk you through the fundamentals of the craft, and a little of the science.

If you need principals and some theory - https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25KJGUHR9XZQT&keywords=color+correction+handbook&qid=1562776577&s=gateway&sprefix=color+correction+%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1

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Pretty much the CC "bible"

For learning about color correction/grading in general: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321929667/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Then use YouTube/Google for specifics on Resolve.

I highly recommend that book (or find some other resource that teaches color grading in a more general sense). Most of the the Resolve tutorials you come across online are nothing more than showing you how to apply a LUT to your footage and even within that simple scope they manage to give a lot of bad information.

PS. I recommend this book as a good starting point: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321929667/

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478642518&sr=8-1&keywords=color+correction+handbook

This book is amazing and is essential

Yeah, I used one node to match exposure using the scopes and then a second node for color using the color wheels. Super easy if you have image wipe on to compare. Learn the absolute basics of color correction and grading and you'll be able to do this in 10 minutes.

I learned from this book and have heard good things about this one as well.

https://www.amazon.de/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667

Step 1: Get this book. (or borrow it from your library)
Step 2: Learn it.
Step 3: Profit.

I learned basic color grading through a FCPX course I took.

I'm a big fan of books and this is the one I'll work through next: Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema.

Best wishes and happy grading!

For starters, I think this book has helped me a lot:
Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema (2nd Edition) (Digital Video & Audio Editing Courses) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321929667/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_RYrXCbSPFBN3C

... And I found this book super helpful as well, it's less about grading and look development and more about the technical bits: (full disclaimer, I haven't finished it, it was at my school's library so I was reading it in bursts)

Real World Color Management (2nd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321267222/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_u0rXCbKEE8JQE

Three things:

No Money? - Watch all of this guys videos. His lessons in 12 will also transition into 14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDPDpWLSNkY

Some money? - Buy this https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520105245&sr=8-1&keywords=color+correction+handbook

Want to learn it all? Friend of mine highly recommends this set of courses: https://www.fxphd.com/new-resolve-v14/

Alexis Van Hurkman's book and Mixinglight.com.

There is a creative component, and a technical component to CC, it's important to understand both.

This is your bible. Read it. Know it. Embrace it.

Is this the book you recommend

If your interested in learning more I would highly recommend this book for learning more.
http://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0N1GVV79P7KGMP7X6W32

from,
A lowly film student who likes computers to much

This is the standard recommendation on this sub and a terrific long term investment.

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667

There is also a follow up book on achieving particular looks and styles.

There are also courses recommended online such as Mixing Light.

If you're just starting out another thing you might choose to do is follow photographers who do their Lightroom work on YouTube. It will at least start the process of getting to see color and how it can be manipulated.

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519583420&sr=8-1&keywords=color+correction+handbook+2nd+edition