Colour Training

01/13/2026

Color management is the one skill that changes everything.

After 20+ years of teaching and research, this course became the global reference for color management, officially recognized and certified by SMPTE.

From color science fundamentals to advanced production workflows — this is real knowledge, not presets.

🗓 Starts Jan 14
🎓 SMPTE Certified
🌍 Trusted by studios worldwide

Few seats remaining.

12/13/2025

If you missed Charles Poynton’s lecture — it’s now available in your Art of Color account.

In this essential session, Poynton breaks down the evolution of color encoding in digital cinema — from early Log and Gamma curves to the modern ACES standard.

For anyone working with color pipelines, HDR, or delivery formats, this is foundational knowledge delivered by one of the world’s leading experts in color science.

Watch now at www.colour.training

12/04/2025

Today Miami became the center of color grading in world. The highest concentration of pro colorist per square foot. Thank you all for making Art of Color such an amazing event.

11/28/2025

10/14/2025

🎬 Texture That Tells a Story
GrainLab 3 brings authentic cinematic grain to your workflow — not as an overlay, but as a creative tool built with precision and intent.

Used by top colorists and filmmakers worldwide, GrainLab 3 gives you full control over the emotional tone of your image:
✅ Real Kodak film grain scanned in 6K
✅ Fully customizable: size, intensity, saturation, contrast
✅ Seamless consistency across shots — powered by AI
✅ Native integration with DaVinci Resolve, Nuke & Baselight

Grain isn’t a filter — it’s visual language.
With GrainLab 3, your digital footage gains the organic, cinematic texture that defines great storytelling.

🎓 Perfect for:
• Filmmakers who want their work to feel timeless
• Colorists who demand precision in every frame
• Film schools teaching the craft of cinematic visuals

📥 Included in the new Colourlab AI Pro 3 suite
🔗 https://colourlab.ai/pro

10/08/2025

🎓 What do your camera, ACES, and your eyes have in common?
A lot more than you think.

This Thursday, October 9, we’re hosting a free masterclass:
From Gamma & Log to ACES
with Charles Poynton, PhD — one of the minds behind modern digital video.

✅ Learn how light turns into signal — and what gets lost in translation
✅ Understand what Gamma, Log, and ACES really do
✅ Explore how your brain sees brightness, contrast, and color
✅ Finally grasp the difference between scene-referred and display-referred

This is not just theory. It’s a new way to think about how images work — grounded in science, made practical for creators.

🗓️ Thursday, October 9
👥 Free for members of the Art of Color Research community
🔗 Join here: https://www.colour.training/art-of-color/

10/07/2025

🎬 AI Meets Film — The Future of Color is Here

We’ve spent decades trying to replicate the soul of celluloid.
Now, AI is helping us understand why film looks the way it does — and how to bring that magic into digital workflows.

Join us this Friday, October 10 (11:00 AM GMT-5) for a special Color Love Stream where we’ll unveil our new white paper:
“AI-Driven Film Emulation: A Novel Approach Using Superpixel Clustering, Vector Databases, and Vision-Language Models.”

What you’ll learn:
✅ How AI “reads” film structure and color response
✅ Why superpixel clustering is the key to true film texture
✅ How data science and artistry merge in modern grading
✅ The future of film emulation and authentic cinematic color

🎥 Hosted by
📅 Friday, October 10 — 11:00 AM GMT-5
🔗 Save your spot: LINK IN BIO
Because real film isn’t just a look — it’s physics, chemistry, and emotion.

10/06/2025

🎥 How to Build a Cinematic Look — Without Overcomplicating Your Workflow

🧠 Grading inspired by 90s Wuxia cinema. Executed with clarity and confidence.

In this segment from a Singaporean anthology film, delivers a stylized yet organic look that pays tribute to the martial arts films of the VHS era.

💬 “I didn’t really need to change much — the DP and I were on the same page, and the director trusted the process.”

This is what happens when a colorist is aligned with the creative vision and has the right tools to stay in flow.

What worked here ✅

✅ No strict LUTs or baked-in looks
✅ Scene-to-scene consistency without manual tweaking
✅ Real-time grading decisions with a clean timeline
✅ Focus stayed on storytelling, not on problem-solving

Why this matters (for your own work):

🟢 Shot matching was handled quickly and cleanly
🟢 Contrast and tone stayed true to the DP’s lighting
🟢 Looks were shared easily with remote collaborators
🟢 Film texture added with GrainLab, in context
🟢 All done natively inside DaVinci Resolve

🎓 This is what we teach at .training:
How to move with intention.
How to deliver fast without sacrificing taste.
How to grade smarter, not harder.

🔗 Learn the workflow: colourlab.ai/pro

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💬 Want a breakdown of this look? Let us know in the comments

09/30/2025

Colorists, let’s be real.
Plugins, LUTs and tutorials can only take you so far. If you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best in the industry, you need structured, top-level training that pushes you technically and creatively.

This Thursday, October 2, 2025, Dado Valentic is opening the doors to the world’s only Master’s Certificate in Color Grading—a 9-month journey designed to take you from foundations to final thesis, the same program that has already shaped some of the most respected colorists working today.

✅ Week-by-week breakdown of what you’ll actually learn
✅ The structure that keeps you growing and accountable
✅ Insights into why this program builds careers (not just skills)
✅ Live Q&A to get your questions answered in real time

If you’ve ever thought: “I’m good, but how do I reach the next level where directors and studios call me first?” — this live stream is where you’ll get the answers.

🚀 Don’t miss the chance to see how the highest professional training in color grading can change your career.

🔗 Save your spot here: https://luma.com/tglzbew1