Review: Codex ColorSynth Color-Grading Plug-In

The tool, has more than 60 items arranged in eight-layer stack with several sublayers.   ColorSynth is touted while the interface should be simpler than the one that comes with those tools..   it also lacks support for CDLs, HDR and auto-clip matching, and Philippe Panzini, VP user experience, told me these specific tools are well underway for release in the near term..   Changes made to any of the parameters showed up in Viewer panel, even on my iMac..   In Input Grade mode, you can work with temperature, linear adjustments, exposure and tone curve.   RGB controls follow the printer lights model and allow adjustment of the relative densities of red, green, and blue for the layer..   The Color Tone panel allows you to define separate RGB curves with default mode that adjusts the colors without affecting brightness and option to change the relative intensities of RGB channels, thus affecting both colors and brightness..   Finally, Shading EQ sub-panel allows you to target very for the modification of hue, saturation, luminance, or RGB tinting.   generous set of keyboard shortcuts makes working with this plug-in pleasure, and the omnipresence of eyedroppers allows for fully color-managed environment, provided you use reference card..   The quality of the feature set, the rendering speed and the results you can obtain with ColorSynth can compete with Resolve...   Read more