Color Grading

[extrapenguin]

I got an idea for a vid last week and, in a manic rush, did the clipping and timing over two days, with some later tweaking to timing. Now it's basically done ... except it could probably do with color grading. And: How??? Fellow vidders, how do you figure out color grading? Is there some equivalent to Lim's Demystifying Vidding (mostly about clip choice/transitions) for color grading? Do people just go "okay, I want this to be Sad, I shall google the Sad Colors and grade it Blue"? I've tried searching for tutorials, but they all seem focused on the How, when I need help on the What.

*incoherent screaming*

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

tbh, I think the only time I've done color grading is when I'm trying to fix something (i.e. trying to make The Terminator's washed out Blu-ray color grading look more like it's DVD color grading).

[extrapenguin]

I've thankfully not run into that sort of thing (yet), but it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who doesn't mega color grade. I guess I have some amount of impostor syndrome lol.