A colour grade
Bright window
by Takehound
Light and airy, like a talk by a big window: a clean white, open highlights, gentle blacks and calm colours, with your skin as it was shot.
Aims for this colour
One frame of a real talk, as shot and graded toward Bright window by the editor. Slide to compare. Worked out from frames across the whole recording, the grade came to:
- Light on the face
- +0.85 of a stop, the highlights held
- Contrast
- 1.12 (the most it allows)
- Blacks
- Pushed under by 3.5% of white
- Colour strength
- 0.88 times as shot (the least it allows)
When to use it
Use it on a talk recorded in daylight: a desk beside a window, pale walls, a room that is already light. It aims for a bright middle with highlights just short of white and blacks that stay soft, and it takes what should be white or grey in the room most of the way to a clean white with only a trace of warmth. It brightens the whole picture by 0.3 of a stop at most and never darkens the middle tones, so it will not turn a dim evening room into a sunny one. Your face is still exposed first, as in every grade here.
Who it suits
It suits a creator whose videos feel like a conversation across a desk: a consultant walking through a framework, a teacher explaining one idea per video, anyone who records in the day and wants it to look that way. It keeps colours calm, between 0.88 and 1.05 of how they were shot, so the room gains little or no colour.
What it changes
Where Bright window takes the picture and how far the editor may move it to get there, beside Natural, the grade a talk gets when nobody names one. Levels run from 0, black, to 255, white. What is not listed is as in Natural.
| What | Bright window | Natural |
|---|---|---|
| Blacks, toward | 34 of 255 | 30 of 255 |
| Middle tones, toward | 205 of 255 | 150 of 255 |
| Highlights, toward | 250 of 255 | 240 of 255 |
| Colour strength, toward | 0.15 | 0.17 |
| Whites and greys | Red over blue by 2 | Red over blue by 6 |
| Taken toward that | 70% of the way | 50% of the way |
| Brighter, at most | 0.3 of a stop | 0.5 of a stop |
| Contrast | 0.9 to 1.12 | 0.9 to 1.15 |
| Cooler, at most | Half the dial | Three quarters of the dial |
| Green or magenta | Left as shot | Up to 0.06 either way |
| Colour strength, range | 0.88 to 1.05 times as shot | 0.9 to 1.1 times as shot |
The middle tones go half of the way to their aim and highlights are only ever opened. Your face is exposed first, and skin keeps the colour it was shot in.
How it works
- Get free accessThe editor is opening from a waitlist, and access is free.
- Open the editor on this gradeAdd your talk and your own footage. The editor opens on this template.
- Watch it workStop it at any point. Every change it makes can be undone.
