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Skin tones almost never break at the end of a grade. They break at step one.

I went through recent r/colorgrading posts and saw the same complaint over and over: orange faces, grey faces, plastic faces. Different clips, different cameras, same two mistakes. The first was the wrong input space, and the second was pushing saturation to fix what looked off.

I see it constantly grading Canon EOS R5 footage and Blackmagic 6K Pro footage in Resolve. Beginners blame the skin tone itself, but the skin was never the problem. The foundation was.

Fix order matters more than fix strength. Set the right input color space and transform first. If the foundation is wrong, every later tweak fights you, and no amount of saturation or curve work will save the face.

Do you check your input space before you touch anything else, or do you usually start with the look? Save this for your next grade and tell me what your first step is 👇

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Your LUT isn't broken. Your color management is.

I read about 70 filmmaker questions on Reddit. A dozen had the same root cause, and it wasn't the LUT.

The symptoms looked different: a desaturated Edit page, LUTs behaving like they've lost their minds, Red C-Log3 footage that looks flat, and a CST node that nobody understands.

Different symptoms. One root cause: the wrong or missing input color space.

Resolve can't guess your camera's language. You have to tell it. Canon EOS R5 C: set the input to C-Log3. Pocket 6K Pro: set it to Blackmagic Film. Get that right, and your LUT suddenly behaves.

Before you blame the LUT next time, check what Resolve thinks your footage is. Which camera or log format has given you the most trouble? Drop it below and save this for your next grade. 🎬

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