Two masterclasses with Hector Berreb
 
Color Micromanagement: the Road beyond R, G & B, and Skin & Beauty Retouching. Two classes, 37h 23m in total, with lifetime access.
 
"Hector Berrebi is the real deal — I always learn something new when I watch his advanced tutorials, and he has a terrific way of making complex ideas and processes in Resolve very simple and easy to understand."
 
Marc Weilage | Senior Colorist, Chroma Hollywood | Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Die Hard
 
What's included
 
Class 01 — Color Micromanagement: the Road beyond R, G & B · four sessions · 19h 23m.
Class 02 — Skin & Beauty Retouching · four sessions · 18h 00m.
Lifetime access to all recordings.
An access document sent on purchase, carrying your recording links and passcodes.
 
Class 01 — Color Micromanagement: the Road beyond R, G & B Four sessions · 19h 23m
Master the functions, spaces, models, channels and blending operations that hide inside every node in DaVinci Resolve. For intermediate and advanced users.
 
Day one — Laws of perception, blending operations, nodes and pipelines
 
What perception is, why it is inseparable from image manipulation, how it guides the work, and how far it can be bent before it breaks.
The rule of black to pointer's gamut — a breakdown of right and wrong, and how to tell them apart.
Blending operations: multiplying, screening and combinations, and how to use them intuitively rather than by guesswork.
Nodes and pipelines: an overview of nodes and connections, the importance of image neutrality, and order of operations.
 
Day two — Color models, and splitting luma from chroma
 
What a colour model is, compared to a colour space.
How colour models are constructed and visualised.
Simple-node colour management: working in colour models.
RGB to HSL, HSV, LAB and others — strengths and limitations.
Resolve functions in RGB, and so do most of its tools. What changing that gives you in depth of control; how different models grant access to different aspects of your content; why some models stand out, what is missing in Resolve and how to work around it, and why no single colour model is perfect.
Manipulating luma and chroma: the advantages of splitting them across different models. HSL/V for simpler, more powerful hue and saturation control; manipulating luminance channels in LAB against HSL, from contrast to exposure.
 
Day three — Channel blending and mixing
 
Intermediate node colour management: blending and mixing channels.
What channel mixing is — splitting and combining to construct a channel mixer, mixing elements within a mixer, and blending channels against each other.
The OFX Custom Mixer: a recent addition to the Resolve toolset that hides real power. How it is used, and its strengths in complex node structures and channel manipulation.
LUTs, DCTLs and other OFX tools: from colour inversion LUTs and OFX through to the relevant DCTLs, and how to place them in a pipeline.
 
Day four — LAB, CMY and the Technicolor look
 
A deeper dive into LAB: its history, its science, why it differs from other models, and where it applies.
Advanced sharpening and luma operations: texture manipulation and sharpening on the L channel, and the LAB unsharp mask node structure.
AB chroma manipulation: comparing known approaches, LAB against YUV, and the degree of image influence each carries.
Building and using a LAB channel mixer — a challenging exercise in advanced node structure and channel mixing, and what it teaches for practical work.
CMY and subtractive operations, from the basics to classic film-look emulation. What CMY and subtractive operations mean, the role of CMY blending in film history and how it earned its allure in Technicolor, and whether it is even possible to truly work subtractively inside an additive system.
Node structures that emulate the classic Technicolor look, and how they are built from CMY blending and mixing.
Practical look development: the fifteen-channel colour mixer, range limiters and clipping protectors, texture-based colour and luma adjustment.
YRGB to ACES and RCM: how these techniques adapt inside colour-managed pipelines.
 
Class 02 — Skin & Beauty Retouching Four sessions · 18h 00m
 
A masterclass on the complexities of beauty and skin retouching in narrative, commercial, fashion and music video work — an issue the industry routinely overlooks.
Achieving good skin tone means intense colour and luma adjustment. Beyond that, the fine detail — wrinkles, scars, the natural effects of age — presents challenges that differ with every production and demand a considered approach.
 
Session one — Skin properties and the fundamentals of correction
 
Introduction to the skin properties that affect colour.
Managing skin exposure, and measuring it.
Using scopes, and recognising the skin line.
White balance considerations for skin.
Best practice, limitations and pitfalls in the correction pipeline for skin.
Case studies across the range, from badly done through overdone to right.
 
Session two — Texture in video, and frequency separation
 
What texture means in video, and how it connects to skin and to manipulation workflows.
Frequency separation: why this long-standing technique is still relevant.
A critique of the automatic tools, and whether they hold up in real time.
Resolve's toolbox for beauty and texture work — twelve different OFX and tools.
Techniques that deliver under time pressure.
 
Session three — Advanced workflows, a real project, and the node tree
 
Advanced beauty and skin manipulation workflows.
Divide-and-conquer methods for facial imperfections and other skin challenges.
Evaluating and planning a beauty and retouching project.
Deconstructing Hector's Beauty-Shop node tree.
How commercial and fashion work differs from narrative.
 
Session four — Bonus sessions
 
Surface tracking for intricate beauty and make-up work, from tattoos to 3D eyeliner.
External tools and plugins: BeautyBox, Maxon Cosmo, Boris Beauty Studio and Heal OFX.
Building custom beauty and frequency-separation node trees, DCTLs and more.
 
Access
 
Recorded playback, lifetime access. On purchase you receive an access document carrying every recording link and passcode.