Academy · Lesson 5 of 5
Teal & Orange Master
The Hollywood grade — every slider earns its place.
What this lesson teaches
- Complementary colours create maximum subject pop
- Highlight recovery + shadow lift before any colour work
- The full stack: WB, tone and presence working together
The 3 stages you rebuild
- 1. White balance — Set the temperature and tint first — every colour decision depends on it.
- 2. Exposure & tone — Brightness, contrast and the tonal extremes. Watch the highlights and blacks.
- 3. Presence & colour — Clarity, dehaze and saturation give the look its intensity — restraint wins.
The target look, in numbers
Exposure +0.1 EV · Contrast +30 · Highlights −40 · Shadows +30 · Vibrance +28 · Saturation +6 · 5600 K · 5-point curve · HSL 6 bands · 3-way grade · split tone · 3 masks.
You are not shown these while playing — the exercise is to reach them by eye and find out how close you got. The same values can be opened in the Studio afterwards.
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