Questions about Boris Hajdukovic lessons

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

Oh, that’s a lot of questions. I am very happy that you are interested in my videos. And I appreciate the questions, of course.

By the way, you can ask the questions directly to me.

Let’s get started.

There are two different approaches to how you can address a topic. One can

1. first explain the tool, and then demonstrate how it works with some examples.
2. you can start editing and when the time comes to use a tool, first take the time to explain the tool and then do this step with the tool.

"2 "takes much more time and breaks the flow of editing.
I rather choose “1”, because otherwise I will need much more time for each video than usual - because every time I take a tool I have to explain it as well - which would be boring for those who already understood it from previous examples.

This approach is of course more difficult for some users, especially the beginners, because they have to watch the explanation video first to be able to follow other episodes. Besides, they have to be able to remember things.

However, this method also has some significant advantages:

• If someone is really interested, he will make the effort to watch the explainer videos several times,
• he will ask the questions and clarify what he did not understand
• He will also study the documentation much more intensively.
• he is also much more motivated to try the things himself instead of consuming served solutions. This is also important to understand the principle behind it, so that it is easier to transfer it to other examples instead of just blindly copying the steps.

@anon43125638

The author simply takes a certain tool and starts telling you how he will use it to change the temperature and tint of the photo.

The explanation of how the color balance works can be seen in the previous episode…

@anon43125638

The man wants to emphasize the greenery on the leaves. Moreover, he uses a mask. That is, it is easy to process such details in the color mixer, but no - he uses the color balance tool. He does it without explaining why he uses this tool and not the color mixer.

…If you understand that, then it becomes clear why I chose the color balance:

I didn’t want to change the hue of the area (which you will do with Channel Mixer) but to give the leaves a “bluish” tone. I used only color sliders in “4ways” tabs for shadows and middle gray area to adjust only these areas color-wise exactly for this reason from your quote…

@anon43125638

The color balance tool is more like a color compressor, when you don’t want to emphasize a color, but rather “cover” it with another color

…you don’t change the original color, but only “emphasize” the specific area with a different color. You can control the strength of the effect with the “chroma” slider (the color that covers) in the “4ways” tab, combined with the saturation functions in the “Master” tab (color intensity of the original colors).

@anon43125638

I am not all for the color mixer, but I need a clear understanding of where one tool is used and where the other is used.

Color calibration is used primarily for color corrections related to white balance. It affects three primary color channels (red, green and blue) - their combination, color intensity, brightness and also serves as a conversion to black and white with “gray” tab.

Color balance RGB is used to control contrasts, saturation and create a “color mood”.

But that doesn’t mean that you can’t use both tools creatively. That’s why, for example, in my videos about Channel Mixer, I showed how to use it for both white balance and color grading.

A good explanation about these two tools was also done by @priort

But before we get into too general discussions, I am very willing to answer concrete questions and for that - as far as my videos are concerned - it is indeed better to use the already existing thread, to which @paperdigits and @kofa also referred to. Otherwise we will lose ourselves in articles.
Again I also put a link here:

Editing moments with darktable

Since I use darktable almost every day, I decided to make a series with small episodes. Although this is not a tutorial, the idea behind it is to show people what you can do with darktable and encourage them to use it. If anyone is interested, you are very welcome to take a look. First episode: [Editing moments with darktable 2.6.1 Episode 1]