Now, I went through the wiki which included the open source videos, it helped a lot, but unfortunately it cannot help my eyes, for that I need your guys feedback.



I went through most of them, and tried to apply a more realistic look to the videos, few of them which deemed to set in a more fantasy setting (like the Hacker video). I went and looked up a few color grading tutorials, but every single person seems to have a different approach to this. So I tried to do the following:

Apply LUT, choose the White Balance, set up the Exposure, then optionally do some Saturation and Contrast, sometimes I had to do some masking which I did at the end to correct or mask the background to test this magic mask tool which I never tried.

The color tab looked the following:

Source -> Exposure -> White Balance -> Contrast -> Saturation -> LUT -> denoise (with Spatial NR) -> Render



I forgot Temporal NR, which I believe would've helped with a clearer image in addition to Spatial NR.

Now, from what I understood the order is different from what you start with first, as it affects the overall look. I also haven't fully grasped things like color theory and stuff, tried to eyeball most of the things which looked okay to me, and waveforms... I underestimated how helpful it is, and often also shows where is what which is interesting to me, let alone helped me coloring all the way through. Just to give a bit of info, I have Deuteranopia so I cannot fully distinguish reds and greens, purples and blues are mostly fine (some shades of it are risky), same with like greens and oranges (some shades look the same to me). With this in mind waveforms helped a lot, and to "deorange" some parts which was screaming in my eyes.



I'm not the most knowledgeable person, but I tried what I learned about coloring the past 3 days.

Color grading as a partially colorblind person