Avid Academy• Skin Tone & Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve• ₦500,000 → ₦300,000• Free Custom LUTs + Practice Footage•
Avid Academy · DaVinci Resolve

Mastering skin tone & color grading in DaVinci

Stop guessing at faces. Learn to land accurate, cinematic skin tones on any complexion, in any lighting — then build the grade around them. A repeatable node workflow you can run on every job.

Launch offer · 40% off · 24 hours only
₦500,000 ₦300,000 You save ₦200,000
Ends in
23HRS
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59MIN
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59SEC
then back to ₦500,000

Lifetime access · Beginner to advanced · Custom LUTs and practice footage included · Questions? Message us any time.

Vectorscope Skin tone line · locked
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Modules04
LevelBeginner → Pro
SoftwareResolve 18+
The real problem

Your footage isn't the problem. The face is.

Everything else in the frame forgives you. Skin doesn't. If the tone is off by a few degrees the whole job reads amateur — and most people feel it without knowing why.

  • Skin comes out grey, ashy or plastic no matter which LUT you drop on it.
  • Two people in one frame, two complexions, and you can only make one of them look right.
  • Your grade looks great on your monitor and wrong on every client's phone.
  • Shots from the same scene don't match, so the edit feels stitched together.
  • You're pushing wheels around by eye because nobody taught you to read the scopes.
  • You can copy a tutorial look, but you can't build your own or explain it to a client.
Who this is for

If your work lives or dies on how the face looks, this is your course.

Built around African and mixed complexions — the tones most grading tutorials quietly skip.

01Video editors
02Videographers
03Photographers
04Filmmakers & DOPs
05Content creators
06Wedding & event shooters
07Music video directors
08Brand & agency teams

Read the scopes, not the screen

Judge exposure and balance from the waveform, parade and vectorscope, so your grade holds up on a phone, a TV and a cinema screen — not just your monitor.

True skin on every complexion

Correct mixed and difficult lighting and keep tones consistent shot to shot across dark, medium and light skin, in the same frame if you have to.

Grade with intent

Build looks that carry a mood on purpose, defend the choice when a client asks why, and turn the ones that work into your own reusable LUTs.

The curriculum

Four modules, in the order a real grade happens.

Nothing theoretical for its own sake. Every lesson ends with something you can use on a paying job the same week.

01

Color grading vs color correcting

Where correction ends and grading begins — and why mixing the two is what makes footage look muddy. You'll leave with a node order and a working setup you repeat on every project.

  • 01Setting up Resolve, colour management and your timeline
  • 02The node graph explained in plain language
  • 03Serial, parallel and layer nodes — when each earns its place
  • 04Reading the waveform, parade and vectorscope
  • 05The order of operations that keeps a grade clean
  • 06Saving a starter project you reuse forever
02

Color correcting — skin tone mastery

The core of the course. White balance, exposure and the vectorscope skin tone line, applied to real African complexions in real Lagos lighting.

  • 01Balancing an image before you touch a single face
  • 02White balance: getting it right, and fixing it when it isn't
  • 03The skin tone line — what it is and how to land on it
  • 04Correcting deep, medium and light skin without washing anyone out
  • 05Mixed lighting: tungsten, daylight and LED in one room
  • 06Qualifiers and windows for clean skin isolation
  • 07Shot matching across a full scene
  • 08Skin retouching that still looks like a person
03

Color grading — the psychology of color

Why a palette makes an audience feel something, and how to pick one that serves the story instead of the trend. This is where your work starts looking like yours.

  • 01What colour actually does to an audience
  • 02Building a palette from the story, not from Pinterest
  • 03Contrast, saturation and where the eye lands
  • 04Protecting skin inside a heavy stylised look
  • 05Film emulation and print-style looks
  • 06Creating, exporting and reusing your own LUTs
  • 07Presenting a look to a client so it gets approved
04

Why lighting matters

The grade is decided on set. Get this module right and post stops being rescue work.

  • 01Exposing for skin on camera, by complexion
  • 02Contrast ratios and how they survive the grade
  • 03Colour temperature, gels and avoiding contamination
  • 04Log, RAW and picking a profile that gives you room
  • 05Practical on-set checks that save hours in post
How it works

From payment to your first graded shot in under an hour.

Step 01

Enter your details

Full name, email and WhatsApp number — that's where your login and your files are sent.

Step 02

Pay securely on Paystack

Card, bank transfer or USSD. Payment is confirmed instantly.

Step 03

Start grading

Login details, the LUT pack and the practice footage land in your inbox and on WhatsApp. Watch at your own pace, forever.

Included free

Two bonuses you keep, whether you finish the course or not.

Bonus 01

The AVIDSTUDIO custom LUT pack

The same looks we run on commercial work — built to sit correctly on African skin, with a node guide showing exactly where to drop each one in your timeline instead of slapping it on the clip.

Bonus 02

Practice footage

Real clips in mixed and difficult lighting, ungraded, so you work every module on the same shots we do instead of hunting for something to practise on.

Who's teaching

Taught out of a working studio, not a classroom.

AVIDSTUDIO is a Lagos video production company working across brand films, TVCs and digital content. This course is the exact grading process we run on client work — the node trees, the scope habits and the skin tone workflow, handed over without the mystery.

04Modules
26+Lessons
∞Lifetime access
1:1WhatsApp support
Enrolment

₦200,000 off, for the next 24 hours.

One payment. Lifetime access. Enter your details, pay on Paystack, and your login lands in your email and on WhatsApp straight after.

Launch offer · 40% off · 24 hours only
Ends in
23HRS
:
59MIN
:
59SEC
then back to ₦500,000
₦500,000 ₦300,000 Save 40%
  • All 4 modules, 26+ lessons, lifetime access
  • Skin tone workflow for every complexion
  • Shot matching and scene-wide consistency
  • AVIDSTUDIO custom LUT pack
  • Practice footage to grade along with
  • Direct WhatsApp support while you learn
  • Free updates when new lessons are added

Secure payment via Paystack · Card, transfer & USSD

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Module 01 starts from opening Resolve and reading a node graph, so nothing is assumed. If you're already grading professionally, start at Module 02 — that's where the skin tone work lives and it's the reason most people buy this.

No. Everything taught here works in the free version of Resolve 18 and above. A few Studio-only features get mentioned where relevant, but nothing in the course depends on them.

Any machine that runs Resolve smoothly — 16GB RAM and a dedicated GPU is the comfortable floor. The practice footage is supplied in a light codec so you're not fighting playback while you learn.

Pre-recorded, so you go at your own pace and rewatch any lesson as many times as you need. Support happens live on WhatsApp — send a frame, get an answer.

Forever. One payment, lifetime access, including any lessons added later.

No — the method works on every complexion. It's built around African and mixed skin because that's what most grading tutorials handle badly, but the scope discipline applies to any face in any frame.

Yes. Paystack accepts card, bank transfer and USSD at checkout. If you'd rather arrange it directly, message us on WhatsApp and we'll sort it out.

Check your spam folder first, then message us on WhatsApp with the name and email you paid under. Access gets restored the same day.

Yes. When the 24-hour countdown hits zero the price returns to ₦500,000 and the LUT pack and practice footage stop being included.

The difference between good footage and expensive-looking footage is the face.

Learn to get it right on every complexion, then charge like someone who can.

₦500,000 once the countdown ends · Secure payment via Paystack

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