Colourful promotional image for bleach.
Colourful promotional image for bleach.

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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  • Black: Controls saturation near the black point.

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

    Midtone: Saturation control for midtones.

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

    White: Controls saturation near the white point.

    Hue Key: Modulates the effect to a specific hue.

    Show Curve: Overlays the adjustment curve on the image.

    Highlight Hue: Shows the selected hue key over a checkerboard to visualise the affected area.

  • 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 vertical line indicating middle grey for DaVinci Intermediate, allowing the end user to decide whether to maintain saturation through that point. That said, this line will no longer accurately represent middle grey if the tool is used within a different transfer curve.

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