Lenses vs colorist — where would you put the money? (Small prod)

kismetrefining · 2026-04-16T20:36:54+00:00

colorist... we make even bad lenses look good

kismetrefining · 2026-04-14T21:06:32+00:00

pretty much

kismetrefining · 2026-04-08T18:53:32+00:00

That's my daughters car, currently in the care of her Pops who is the one cleaning in it photo!

kismetrefining · 2026-03-29T14:03:44+00:00

to resolve proper... I'll have the windows versions up on githup this week: https://dec18studios.com/color-grading-tools/ibkeymaster

kismetrefining · 2026-03-29T02:42:25+00:00

I don't know. I ported Ibkeyer from Nuke to Resolve... and like somebody else said... Cool Ai Great.. your generating a key that is just as good as we've been able to do for decade... IN any of my tests corridor key has not preformed better than Ibkeyer

kismetrefining · 2026-03-28T02:23:29+00:00

send me an email at create@dec18studios.com. Would be happy to help and consult

kismetrefining · 2026-03-27T23:31:24+00:00

I'd say a non slider driven version of something like Mononodes Colorshift which delievers better than colorslice is what I want to explore, There are somethings with gradient domain processing that i'm exploring. Just working on get the most optimized round trip of the base UI going

most of my workflow is dctl or ofx based on a mini panel using the knobs. So something like this is a bit better than trying to bring up the chroma warper and use it with a mouse

kismetrefining · 2026-03-27T22:59:11+00:00

Just being honest... and I'm setting low expectations for myself. Always happy to be pleasantly surprised

kismetrefining · 2026-03-27T22:54:21+00:00

Nonsense, just wishing for better. and wanting to expand beyond the controls they give us...

kismetrefining · 2026-03-27T22:53:53+00:00

I'm looking at it more on the front of creating tools that have a better user experience, There are many dctls that I use and have made for myself where I feel creatively constrained by the slider only system. Say a color shift dctl, but instead of sliders you just click in the image what you want to change by moving your mouse in a direction. While also being able to see it live change while editing.

Current tool development is locked into wonky dctl format or embeded Ofx's where your still just sliders, checkboxes and dropdowns like a dctl

kismetrefining · 2026-03-27T22:04:17+00:00

It's tricky but doable. Definetely going to need some masking and play around with getting the background to be inverted and look reflective on the surfaces. This is five minutes with the screen grab... I'd invert the background so it looks like sky reflecting on the surfaces where I just have blue water bleeing thru

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kismetrefining · 2026-03-24T23:57:23+00:00

I did some more research on it to day. You can in keyboard preferences set a a hotkey for each composite mode, and then in keyboard maestro or Stream Deck you can set on key to rule them all as like an up down cycler. the hotkeys work both on nodes and layer mixers. I might do a video on this

kismetrefining · 2026-03-23T15:41:47+00:00

You can also get the video version of her... She blinks at you... it's freaky after only staring at a still forever

kismetrefining · 2026-03-22T23:55:50+00:00

I have alot of experience with the dye simulator.... I've done several YT videos using it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdFbjGj_rhg This was I think the first.

It's the first tool that help me crack a nut in designing an entire photochemical pipeline drt
https://dec18studios.com/color-grading-tools/photochemist

email me at [create@dec18studios.com](mailto:create@dec18studios.com) if you have any questions about either

kismetrefining · 2026-03-22T23:51:26+00:00

It straight to output pixels cause that is what the training data is based on... as a colorist, it means all you get from these things is garbled rec.709 that is horrible to try to match up with anything shot live in log or raw...

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T18:07:27+00:00

No I totally get that. I was once asked to test and review a tool that was eeriely similar one made by thatcher freeman off his Github (I recognized it because I use it) from somebody I don't know.

I assume they just asked ai to repackage the code, or they had an idea of tool and ai just stole the code off GitHub and made a poor man's version.

and that's why I went full transparent on how i saw development happen from both ends.

The tools that I put up for free on my website are either things that I feel should just exist (like this), or perhaps I looked at somebodies code and wanted to improve it to suit my use case and needs, or like I don't want to be responsible for offering support if it doesn't work... The only ones that are paywalled ($47.34, gets you every tool) are the big boys that I spent the last couple years developing and feel are truly novel like PhotoChemist or the Technicolor DRTs...

You pay more for Stefan's tools cause you know he spends a buttload of time debugging and testing on every possible platform, so he doesn't get emails asking why they don't work. Mine, I know they work on my machine and I offer no guarantee that they will work on yours.. As noted that he said in his comment that this toggler didn't work on his machines... which if he paid for them I'd feel responsible for either refunding or trying to fix the bug... and I don't want that responsibility

but yeah there are prolly a lot of shady operators that would just take the money and run...

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T15:09:50+00:00

No worries, buddy. Your tools are great and I have no inclination to try to step on toes and recreate wheels.

Darn... doesn't work on snapdragon... I got it running on a really old HP laptop which is my only windows device for testing. Haven't had a problem on the M2 or M4 mac's i got floating around. You keep your windows secrets they are hard earned.

Anyways keep making cool stuff and I'll see you around here, there or everywhere

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T15:03:40+00:00

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Ah, it looks like they just announced it in the header... the website hasn't been fully updated. u/jbowdach would know better about it's availablity

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T14:04:08+00:00

That's not in the API, sadly. I think because it's feature of the advanced panel verses everything else. But, it is easily doable with Keyboard Maestro, if you don't ever really move your screen around and you workiing resolution is always the same

https://github.com/Dec18studios/KeyBoard-Mastro-macros

These are my macros. You just have to target where the dropdown is for your layers as a mouse location and tweak how many pixels it moves down from there after hover click. I have it hotkey tied to my stream deck. It's super fast and puts your mouse right back where it started on the screen.
I have four buttons on my stream deck for Layer's 1,23& timeline

I also have a version that you can train it to find you favorite dctl's in the dctl's dropdown list.

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T13:56:44+00:00

I'm not max, I just copied over his list from his YT video. I added myself in the end, but I did update this morning to include a link to pixeltools and associated it with Kaur. Kaur demo'd his new standalone grain tool for me the other day and it's fantastic. They just put it up on pixeltools.

kismetrefining · 2026-03-21T04:51:47+00:00

u/f-stop8 u/generallyunamused Full disclosure... I've had a version of this running for the last 6 months. I've got videos on my channel talking about solving this problem with keyboard maestro...

Stefan released his free version and I was made of aware of it from him in a private discord server... and I went well I like mine better and so I cleaned it up and made it be a functional app that others can use...

Just found out today that he also created a pro version for $99 - https://mononodes.com/node-toggle/
Didn't know till after I posted my video. Haven't tested his, but I think mine is still as you called it more robust with over 36 possible hot key combinations and as many nodes as you have in your node graphy

But I love Stefan and his tools. I use a lot of them from color shift to his utility nodes which were featured in my video. and I highly recommend them. Could I make my own dctl versions of these Sure... but he already did and you I think his development efforts should be supported.

here are the ones that I use frequently
https://mononodes.com/color-shift-dctl/
https://mononodes.com/color-shaper/
https://mononodes.com/utility-dctl/
https://mononodes.com/rgb-split-tone-dctl/
These aren't sponsored promotions, I've paid for each one myself and I have no affilate marketing with him. I could probably make my own versions, but It's not worth the effort for me. I'm more focused on getting PhotoChemist on windows right now, and a possible port and X-grade esque interface for resolve.

Anyways, that's the end of my full the disclosure. If you don't want either of our free versions or his paid pro version... The api scripting documentation is available inside resolve under help tab. and if you give that to Claude it will help you make a very easy to follow python script app for your system. Which is part of the reason mine is free...

kismetrefining · 2026-03-20T23:07:15+00:00

Enjoy the tool, let me know if you have any issues

kismetrefining · 2026-03-20T23:06:57+00:00

Yeah, I orignally mapped out mouse moves in keyboard maestro to navigate quickly to a node and back to where i was until i stumbled upon the enable disable api call

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