Re: Do the final "look" in the Primary Out?

I would say, in my humble opinion, no - I wouldn't consider primary out the place where you create your look. Primary in is to remove any color casts and perfect the contrast. The middle areas, Secondaries and effects are where you create your distinctive look. The primary out is, as I look at it, you last chance to fix any problems you've created the secondaries and effects rooms. For example, I will sometimes apply a slight glow to highlights (kind of a simulated pro-mist filter) using curves, blurs and an additive node. Doing so sometimes pushes the highlights out of legal range, and so primary outs lets me give one final tweak to be sure I'm outputting an image that's technically correct.

I admit though, that I sometimes can't resist messing with the color and saturation a bit at the primary out phase, so I guess I'm a hypocrite!
Bob Pierce

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