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Bleach

£25.00

Bleach is a luminance vs saturation tool that lets you shape the saturation of your image based on brightness levels. It’s a powerful but often overlooked adjustment that’s especially useful for creating filmic looks—where shadows tend to carry more saturation and highlights appear more bleached out, hence the name. This tool is also great for creating a form of faux-contrast; by saturating shadows and desaturating highlights, you can introduce a sense of depth and richness in the dark areas while giving the highlights a clean, airy feel—boosting perceived contrast without actually altering the luminance curve.

Bleach is a luminance vs saturation tool that lets you shape the saturation of your image based on brightness levels. It’s a powerful but often overlooked adjustment that’s especially useful for creating filmic looks—where shadows tend to carry more saturation and highlights appear more bleached out, hence the name. This tool is also great for creating a form of faux-contrast; by saturating shadows and desaturating highlights, you can introduce a sense of depth and richness in the dark areas while giving the highlights a clean, airy feel—boosting perceived contrast without actually altering the luminance curve.

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  • Gain: Multiplies all saturations uniformly for a global strength adjustment. 

    Blacks: Controls saturation near the black point.

    Shadows: Adjusts saturation in the shadow roll-off (toe region).

    Midtones: Saturation control for midtones.

    Highlights: Adjusts saturation in the highlight roll-off (shoulder region).

    Sat Limiter: Bi-directional limiter for smoothly resetting saturation.

    Sat Mix: Controls the blend of saturation types.

    Hue Mask: Modulates the effect to a specific hue.

    Luma Mask: Limits the effect to shadows or highlights.

    Show Curve: Overlays the adjustment curve on the image.

    Show Masks: Shows the selected matte over a checkerboard to visualise the affected area.

    Transfer Curve:     The transfer curve of your timeline colour space (For setting the pivot indicator only).

  • This tool can technically be used in any colour space; however, it was built and tested inside DaVinci Wide Gamut Intermediate. The overlay curve also includes a crosshair indicating middle grey for DaVinci Intermediate, Arri LogC3, and ACEScct allowing the end user to decide whether to maintain saturation through that point.