FAQ

Color correction is the post production process of manually adjusting your footage in order to find a correct balance between exposure, color temperature, and contrast.

Typically, color correction requires you to correct the white balance, adjust the shadows, midtones and highlights, contrast and set the overall balance for your footage.

Typically performed after color correction, Color Grading is the creative process of refining your footage so that further enhancements are made to image’s color, contrast, lighting within the image, color gradients and more to help convey a feeling or mood. Adding a creative look and/or emulating film stock is also done during the color grading process.

Simply put, color correction intends to normalize the footage to a consistent, balanced state, while color grading aims to creativity enhance it.

PixelTools color grading tools and presets are intended to aid in both the color correction and grading processes. While you can certainly use any PowerGrade or tool “as-is”, we strongly encourage you to use them as a starting point and adjust, as necessary, to best suit your specific footage.

PowerGrade presets are customizable color grades \ looks saved for later use within Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, similar to a preset in other applications. Applying a PowerGrade preset is a seamless one-click process, so they’re an incredibly efficient method of storing complex creative looks, helpful effects templates and other common tasks frequently utilized during color correction and grading.

Aside from increasing efficiency, PowerGrade presets can also be used as a learning tool since they’re completely open, allowing full access to the individual color tools and effects used to create them.

Absolutely! We offer a rotating sample pack of PowerGrades that you can download from here.

You can also try out watermarked demos for each of our DCTL plug-ins, which are available on the product pages for each individual plug-in.

With a heavy focus on organization, reusability, and an easy end-user experience, PixelTools PowerGrades are designed to be unlike any other PowerGrades you’ve encountered: easily approachable yet infinitely customizable.

Every single PowerGrade preset has been meticulously labelled, organized and compounded, which makes using, modifying, and combining them a fun and creative process.

Our most important goal is to make sure you get the most out of PixelTools color grading tools. This means we’re here for you to make sure PixelTools products function properly and that you’re able to use them easily within your workflow.

However, our support is not limited to the usage of our products. We’d be happy to take a look at your film(s) and make suggestions in regards to exposure, contrast, white balance and how to prepare your footage to get the best results from the products you’re trying to use. We are here to help you get the perfect color grade for your project!

Our most important goal is to make sure you get the most out of the PixelTools PowerGrades. This means we’re here for you to make sure PixelTools functions properly and that you’re able to use them easily.

However, our support is not limited to technical aspects. We’d be happy to take a look at your film(s) and make suggestions as to what would be the best way to utilize a specific PowerGrade preset, achieve a specific look or color grade.

We’ll offer you suggestions in regards to exposure, contrast, white balance and how to prepare your footage to get the best results from the PowerGrade you’re trying to use.

We are here to help you get the perfect color grade for your project!

PowerGrades are incredibly easy to install in DaVinci Resolve. Simply follow our video walkthrough for detailed installation instructions.

You can also use the following guide:

1. Open DaVinci Resolve and navigate to the “Color” Tab.
2. Select or create a new PowerGrade Album by right-clicking and selecting "Add PowerGrade Album"
3. Name the New PowerGrade Album e.g "Exposure PowerGrades"
4. Drag & drop the .drx files into the newly created PowerGrade album.

PixelTools PowerGrade presets and DCTL plug-ins will work with essentially any camera format and source that is supported by Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Color Management.

While our products are optimized for scene-referred workflows (Log), they can be adjusted to work with traditional Rec709 Gamma 2.4 sources using a Color Space Transform effect.

PixelTools products are compatible with all Operating Systems that run Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 18+: MacOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS* (iPad Pro 12.9 only)

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