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Creating a Bleach Bypass
Creating a Bleach Bypass
In this exercise, you’ll create a bleach bypass look for the same shot.
The bleach bypass process, sometimes called a silver retention or ENR process, is a
low-saturation, high-contrast look. It stems from a film development process in which the
bleaching stage was, well, bypassed. It can be seen in many television shows and films
including Reds, Saving Private Ryan, and Seven.
1 Right click over node 02 and choose Color > Reset Node Grade to remove the LUT
look and delete node 03 from the node editor.
The bleach bypass look uses a low color saturation. So, you will start by decreasing
thesaturation using the shared controls under the master wheels.
2 In the shared adjustments controls of the Color wheels palette, lower the Sat
valueto20.
Up to this point, you have used the custom curves only to modify the black and white
points and balance color. For this bleach bypass look, you’ll use it to increase contrast.
3 In the toolbar, click the custom curves button and choose Custom from the drop down
menu if the custom curve palette is still set to an HSL curve.
You can increase contrast using the custom curve palette by adding two control points
to the curve: one point in the lower shadows area and one in the upper highlights.
4 Click the Y button to control only the luminance in this clip.
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