EDITING PHOTOS in Davinci Resolve

Editing Photos in Davinci Resolve may not be the "norm" but the tools are there and its definitely possible to create amazing images. Thanks everyone for your submissions!
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[@JamieFenn]

Do you guys like this kind of video!? If I didnt pick your photo this time I was thinking of making this a monthly series. What do you guys think!?

[@A1Bokeh]

this video was dope

[@stephenchabala9373]

Monthly series would be very very awesome! I'll be sure to share my photo this time around

[@JamieFenn]

YES please do!

[@slartbartfast]

@@stephenchabala9373 Please! Weekly series!

[@slartbartfast]

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[@rukiddinbro]

Hands down the best DaVinci Resolve channel I know of! :)

[@JamieFenn]

rukiddinbro thank you so much!!!!!’ 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼😁

[@IBVisuals]

Yup, the reason I subscribed

[@Rintonix]

This is no lie my dude.

[@FossilBluff]

The photos you chose were perfect because they also let you show a great sample of the tools you use to clean them up. I've NEVER thought of using Resolve in this way before.

[@JamieFenn]

So glad you liked it. I tried to pick a few different ones that would work with everyone!

[@romancescorpse]

This is a great discipline for colorists, if you can master single frames you can master entire shots.

[@JamieFenn]

Much appreciated!!! Some people have hated on this video. But I agree 100%

[@paulsaxby7579]

Another reason to drop the Adobe suite, not that I needed it. Its just incredible what is possible with this software. Thank you for posting this, it was truly enlightening.

[@JamieFenn]

Lol, right? I know DR isn't a photo editor but you definitely can do it. I've been doing it a lot more lately and its epic. Especially for nailing skin tones.

[@paulsaxby7579]

@@JamieFenn I found this really interesting and I am pretty sure I could happily integrate this into my daily workflow, especially if I used this along with adjustment clips to edit multiple images at once on a timeline.

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Hi Jamie, I just wanted to thank you for your time and efforts! I am a new KZbinr and do not have any experience, but you helped me a lot with Davinci. I came to Davinci from almost zero experience. So it was not easy at first. In appreciation of what you are doing I put your channel logo on my channel front page!

[@JamieFenn]

Thats amazing to hear. Thank you so so much...

[@AimerYui]

edit photos using photoshop : ❌❌❌ edit photos using Davinci : ✅✅✅ 😁😁😁

[@JamieFenn]

hahah YESSS

[@graafschapcollege5966]

How to export for best best quality?

[@sue08401]

@@graafschapcollege5966 TIFF is the highest quality - It isn't compressed.

[@TechJungle]

Dude! I’ve been using Resolve for a minute and didn’t even think to use this as a photo/ thumbnail creator. Thank you! Subscribed

[@JamieFenn]

Yo! Thanks for the sub and welcome to the channel! Yea you can definitely use it to edit photos. I almost like it better than LR and PS for skin tone accuracy. Maybe Im just a DR fan boy though lol. Feel free to let me know what you think about my other videos. Enjoy!

[@BiO811HazarD]

This was extremely helpful. I’ve been struggling trying to edit GoPro footage that’s shot in Flat Color with White Balance set to Native. It seems like most tutorials I’ve watched make color magically appear, but your video made it very clear how to get color to show up. I’ve also been scared to raise the saturation up very high but it looks like that’s what I have to do for Native WB footage.

[@JamieFenn]

when raising saturation just make sure to keep an eye on your vector scope!

[@diagomedia]

Great tutorial! Love that I am able to use a single app for video and photo editing as a beginner editor. Makes it much easier to digest and keeps me motivated.

[@robfernandez5234]

Jamie - after reviewing half a dozen other videos claiming to show how to EXPORT the photos, finally yours got me over the finish line after hours of trying to get it done!! Thank you!

[@JamieFenn]

You're very welcome!

[@stephenchabala9373]

I honestly didn't know that you could edit photos in Resolve! Excited! This video will make a huge difference.

[@JamieFenn]

Oh yea you can! Definitely try it!

[@thenightowl5438]

I’ve been wondering about this for awhile. I keep on seeing reasons to move on from Adobe . Thank you!

[@JamieFenn]

You bet!

[@bobstark8749]

Editing photos in DR, what a cool idea! Each tool has its purpose. I really like using Photoshop for some things, but now I'm more at home with the DR Color page for color grading and general touch-up work for video images. I too would like to see more of these types of videos about editing photos in DR. It would be interesting to create a video to apply this idea to post-producing an audio project (without video) using the Fairlight page. Maybe videos like this already exist but I haven't found one yet. Thanks for your knowledge to help uncover the versatility of DR; there's so much to learn. I'll stay tuned.

[@artembeymart]

what an awesome tutorial!!! Thank you Jamie. Very much educational

[@JamieFenn]

Artem Beymart glad you learned a lot’ thank you!

[@JasonToddRoberts]

I liked your tip on boosting the mid-tones on the subject. I am defiantly going to add that to my workflow!

[@JamieFenn]

Thanks Jason. Glad it was helpful!

[@nategordon]

Jamie - 7-month user of DaVinci Resolve here. Awesome...really awesome video. It was easy to follow (atleast for me), and the examples were kickass. Your final edit for this video was FANTASTIC!! 🙏🏽 3 notes: 1) I’ve accidentally added saturation in a node that wasn’t the “saturation node” in the tree, but it never occurred to me to add a 2nd node for saturation on purpose. THANK YOU!!! 2) at 21:51, try Alt + D instead of selecting all nodes and Shift + D. 😳 3) I export images from the Color tab with a right-click on the image. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@JamieFenn]

nate gordon yes all work well! Haha thank you so much for this. You rock! Thanks for the kind words ☺️

[@nategordon]

It might be Ctrl + D...not on my computer Keep up your work. FANTASTIC!!

[@JamieFenn]

haha for sure. Will do thank you!

[@AshleyCichocki]

This was a super helpful video. Thanks for putting the time and effort in to making great content. I especially liked that you went through a number of examples. Seeing how you adjusted your process to each was incredibly useful.

[@JamieFenn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@terenceotoole5082]

brooooo, i was stuck choosing between lightroom and capture one but still in need of a video editor. this single video has me subscribing to you and buying davinci resolve. can't thank you enough and will definitely be watching every single video you've made

[@JamieFenn]

You're welcome!! I really appreciate that awesome comment. Feel free to let me know what you think about my other videos!

[@RusstafaB]

Jaimie, Great video. Love your stuff and very informative and thanks for the time and effort you take to create these videos

[@JamieFenn]

I really apprecaite the compliment!

[@TheJoessef]

wow, been doing photography for a while, never thought of using Davinci for photo editing, well done.

[@JamieFenn]

Yea I figured why not! You can basically do everything PS and Light room can do.

[@ZeeGeeSims]

LOVE this! Please do more 😊

[@JamieFenn]

Thank you!!! I will make a couple episodes for sure :D

[@TassosPhotographyStudio]

Thanks for the shout-out bro! I've been following your DR tutorials to learn video editing and I didn't even know you could edit photos! I like your edit so much better. Keep it up!

[@JamieFenn]

Dude YES! No problem. So stoked to receive your photos. Thank you! May have to use another one for a future photo tutorial if that's cool? Thanks again!

[@TassosPhotographyStudio]

@@JamieFenn Go for it!

[@JamieFenn]

Yo da man! Thank you!

[@joshrathbun1]

Dude, 3 years later and still this is relevant! Loved this!

[@JamieFenn]

Hell yea!!

[@minismitty9314]

Jamie Fenn you are such a huge inspiration in my life thank you!

[@JamieFenn]

Wow, thank you!

[@jrod291]

what a great video!!!

[@MultiMam12345]

ive been asking blackmagic for ages to add some basic stills asset management for rating and some dedicated tools for editing stills. If you are editing 500 images you need to be able to crop or do local adjustments in less clicks for example. All the tools are already in there. Im sure they will add a dedicated stills page sooner or later. Important to know is that the max export resolution is 4K for the free version. I got the full version just to export stills at full resolution. Keep up the great tutorials!

[@JamieFenn]

They may make a photo editor stand alone program. Its made for videos but I wanted to show people how to edit photos because why not? :D

[@MultiMam12345]

Jamie Fenn It would be way more easier to add a few still friendly features. Davinci was originally just a color grading tool. And now its a Color Grading, NLE, Audio DAW with Fairlight and Compositing app with Fusion all in one app. Good times:)

[@JamieFenn]

Agreed. Maybe they will make a standalone program? One day *fingers crossed*

[@MultiMam12345]

Jamie Fenn Dont think because their market is film. And they dont need to because all the tools are already in there. With a few tiny tweaks they could easily compete with Lightroom, the same way they compete with Premiere. And LR has just as much frustrated users😎 Not everyone uses the fairlight or fusion page and you can currently already show or hide all the panels.

[@mr.thursday3768]

@@JamieFenn really glad you did, it's an amazing feeling to use one program for (at least minimal) basic editing of all media types/forms.

[@erikaptured]

Subscribed! thank you for Jamie, Great tutorial, it's amazing...

[@ShariAzama]

Absolutely SICK tutorial, thank you so much!

[@JamieFenn]

No problem 😉

[@personsofinterestband6013]

New fans. Thanks for this

[@ElYaucanoFilms]

simply amazing!

[@JamieFenn]

[@DoanNhuHang]

Very nice. Thanks !

[@adsmithtx]

Best color correction video I have seen so far thanks this is a keeper

[@JamieFenn]

Much love Alan! Thank you for the kind words!

[@BruiserFL]

Wow..awesome video.

[@52weeks32]

the god Jamie Fenn back at it again with the davinci gems. bless

[@JamieFenn]

hahaha did you see my most recent video!?

[@sityu82]

Just been thinking about this.. RT is awesome, but this is another level. Thanks!

[@JamieFenn]

Glad you like it!

[@hoofhearted6832]

First video I've seen of yours. Well done and thank you.

[@JamieFenn]

Awesome, thank you!

[@miltosschimatariotis3906]

This video is awesome! I learned so much in just 20 min. Thanks and subbed!

[@JamieFenn]

Thanks for the sub! Glad you learned a lot. Cheers mate!

[@Traci_S_Aaron]

Yes Yes ty for showing this I was trying to the other day and getting the photos in the timeiine and the photo type was my issue

[@70ssoulclub81]

Thanks, Paul. Very helpful and well explained

[@JamieFenn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ayyothepizzahere6181]

YES thank you

[@JamieFenn]

:D

[@mvsa3408]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@JamieFenn]

My pleasure!

[@jpeele]

This tutorial is bananas!!! I wish I could like this 10 times.

[@JamieFenn]

Yooo thanks man! Ill heart your comment instead how bout that?

[@mattvalleycodes]

Damn! I never thought of editing photos with Davinci Resolve! Bye-bye Lightroom & Photoshop! Thanks for the great content, Jamie!

[@JamieFenn]

hahah right!? Cheers!

[@tuffcityprix]

Thanks so much for the simple approach easy to follow along!

[@JamieFenn]

You are so welcome!

[@firetofork]

Thanks so much mate! The photo of my dog Fred looked great!

[@JamieFenn]

Hey thanks Harry! Glad you liked it. What a fun couple of photos you submitted! Thank you

[@Shiruba.60]

the moment you are watching a video /photo editing tutorial and then see your favourite bush chef's youtube account mentioned! what are the odds. Great work both! you both inspire me. Great photo of Fred!

[@ozzmanzz]

Thanks for posting this! Is there any difference in quality in the way it is shown here to export compared to the ‘grab still’ function and then exporting as a tiff or jpeg?

[@hwaregr9912]

Great Video! Great tutorial! You help people like me a lot. Keep up the good work!

[@JamieFenn]

Thank you so much!

[@suryagurung7793]

The color grading tools in Resolve are so great.

[@sycamoreandsalt]

Well this is convenient. Thank you!

[@H76Pro]

Really liked the video! Picked up a few tricks along the way :)

[@JamieFenn]

Glad it helped!

[@aviatorman8]

Pretty cool man! 👍🏻

[@JamieFenn]

Thanks dude!

[@aviatorman8]

@@JamieFenn Sure thing dude!

[@MIHAO]

awesome!

[@JamieFenn]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@yusril2875]

helpful video,appreciate it.

[@itswrongtokillanimalsifyou2837]

This hits the spot perfectly for frame grab type photography. Thanks a lot!

[@norgerichard]

Plz make more videoes like this Jamie Fenn.

[@JamieFenn]

I was thinking of doing an edit your photos series :D

[@meriredetripsandclicks3153]

Nice, thanks for the video. Photos can also be exported directly to jpeg or png without using the render page : in the color page once the photo is done, go to the "view" menu > stills > grab stills. Then click on the "gallery" in the top left corner, right click on the still, and export. You can select png or gpeg here. Side note : you should give a name to your nodes, I personally added a shortcut to the "tab" key to "Label selected node".

[@JamieFenn]

True. Both work fine.

[@elzycollins]

Do you lose quality exporting a still to jpeg. It seems when i export a still it reduced the size of a 20mb image to around 1mb

[@dinokurtovic5661]

Great video, thank you

[@JamieFenn]

You are welcome!

[@bayaan_world]

Massive thanks to you sir from Morocco (land of heroes), and just to let you know, Fenn means Art in Arabic ;)

[@JadenCoyer]

Love the video how did you make your intro I’ve been looking for someone who can do it? Any recommendations?

[@JamieFenn]

Magic ;)

[@TheArrogan]

Hi Jamie, could you make a video about the basics on editing photos in DR? for example, how to set color management, cause photos are normally in another set of color spaces. I don't know how to set it correctly in DR if I want to edit a photo from a Leica camera. How to set frame rate ? You didn't talk about these basics but that would be very helpful to just get started. Thanks

[@paradisemusiclibrary1756]

Wow! Very insightful video. I've just started my own channel where I post relaxation music and never used Davinci before, will try it out!

[@JamieFenn]

Best of luck!

[@tommygun5.3]

ty

[@aero-i]

Brilliant! Really informative video 👍. Could you explain how you would blend multiple bracketed shots to create a HDR photo? Or how you would overlay and blend two photos maybe? Looking forward to seeing more videos like this! Thanks

[@JamieFenn]

Not sure if you can do that type of photo editing in DR.

[@ryanmills9719]

That's why I'm here too

[@macdemarco1476]

I have a question how are u exporting ur images from Davinci becasue when i go to export as frame my fize size always goes from the raw size 22mb to around 3.. please help

[@norgerichard]

This is very usefull

[@JamieFenn]

Thanks Richard!

[@photobatya]

You are just killing everything by adding final LUT

[@JamieFenn]

Do you say the same about applying presets in Lightroom?

[@videographer_kazarin]

Now you are my best friend man! =)

[@JamieFenn]

Much love haha

[@A1Bokeh]

first!! yess... I have been thinking of using davinci to edit photos but just never did it i have been using darktable and gimp and videos explaining the scopes more in depth>?

[@JamieFenn]

Its a super powerful tool. I think as good as lightroom and photoshop, just a different way of approaching it.

[@A1Bokeh]

@@JamieFenn ya man I am really considering switching and using this as my photo editor I also think it could help editing video as well since Im using the same program... what do you think man ?

[@JamieFenn]

Ive been using it a lot lately lets just say that :D

[@sundrive2575]

Hi tnx for the great tutorial! I was wondering what is the difference between - > grab a still in the color tab and export it and the method you use -> render 1 frame from the deliver tab and export it? Tnx

[@JamieFenn]

They both work fine. I think there may be some limitations to grabbing stills as far as DPI and resolution, I could be wrong.

[@henryfilar6887]

Bit late, but just watched this incredible video. Do you sell your images? You do beautiful work.

[@griffindant4301]

hey jamie long video but a nice one

[@JamieFenn]

Had to be long. Lots of epic photos!

[@adventurepromo]

Some before and afters would have been helpful. Thanks for the video!

[@JamieFenn]

No problem!

[@magalipolverino6501]

Hi! Great video! Thank you! two questions. Is it possible to edit vertical photos? And how do you place your color wheel panel next to the qualifier? Thank you! :)

[@JamieFenn]

Yes just change project resolution to what you want. Not sure about your second question? I have a bigger screen so the layout could be different for you if youre on a smaller laptop screen,

[@yurakononov3673]

Да, этого я давно ждал. Спасибо. 🤗

[@JamieFenn]

Dont know what that says but thank you! :D

[@artokmt]

I use Affinity Photo if make photoediting. But I have learn to use Resolve with nodes it would be nice to test it some complex photoediting some projects.

[@JamieFenn]

Resolve is so versatile! Definitely play around and use it like you would a photo editor. You just may have to approach the process a little differently.

[@DiRTySPiNZzz]

Hey, can you explain me the part at 11:50?? how did you the automatic detection from the rocks??

[@jsjayson7851]

its really a awesome tutorial.. 😍 probably one day i will turn my photo editing workflow to resolve... one question, when import to davinci resolve, the image will turn it into 72dpi right? can the photos keep it in 300dpi?

[@JamieFenn]

Good ? And I have no idea to be honest. Please let me know if you figure it out!

[@asphaltandtacos]

My only reservation is if you were wanting to print out images due to the color space. Thoughts? With that said, it would be interesting to see what can be done in the Fusion page.

[@JamieFenn]

Yea I dont know about that to be honest. You may want to BM and ask those details

[@IslandFilmMaker]

Another great lesson! Who needs a photo editing program... when you can do almost all your images in DaVinci Resolve 16 or better! Very Cool

[@JamieFenn]

Richard James Milne right!??? Thank you!

[@theantoniosilva]

I’d like to use the same process I edit RAW footage and use that to edit RAW photos so i have a consistent look. Do you have any advice? I tried to look up raw to log CST but I don’t think that exists

[@JamieFenn]

Just grade it manually

[@patrice.46]

Bonjour Jamie & thank for your tuto. My issue concern the fact that I would export many photos in the same deliver process and get a clip (file) for each one...Having tested several possibilities , I can't reach my intention; I get just one photo or a rush merging all the photos (like for video) 😡 So could you please tell me if you made a tuto about this subject or if you could explain me the best way? Regards. Patrice (from Paris France)

[@JeffBourke]

Completely OFF TOPIC BUT do you know if it's possible to seek / scrub through your clips viewing 'I' frames only in the same way that you can hold SHIFT in virtualdub and scrub super efficient / smooth and quickly?

[@JamieFenn]

Im not sure to be honest.

[@berniemoskowitz1438]

Do you recommend doing the photos in a photo editor like Luminar4 or here in Davinci?

[@JamieFenn]

I use lightroom and photoshop mainly, and have never used Luminar4

[@LandyVlad_Rides]

Jamie is there a way to do other photo editing - e.g. let's say I have a photo with a person in and I want to cut out that person so I can place that image of the person in a clip on my timeline ?

[@JamieFenn]

Yes. You can do that in fusion or the color tab!

[@zay9149]

I don't know if you'll ever reply but if you do it would be a huge help but I'm in awe of your imagination and creativity of these edits. Lovely job. My question is, how do you know what to do? How do you know what color aspect to adjust for a good photo in the settings? How do you know where to go? For example, in 6:40 you said the first thing you want to do is look at the Waveform. Why? What kind of things does that tell you what you need to adjust in the photo? I have little experience with editing in DR, but I want to get better. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[@JamieFenn]

Years of reading. Practice. Reading some more. Problem solving/ trying new concepts and a lot of trial and error.

[@janulmann3232]

How exactly do you export the photos without losing any quality? I haven't found a way to export 6240 x 4160 in my case... it's a big mystery to me.

[@UltimateVictory88]

How do you add some sort of movement to a still picture? Example: a meadow with a pond. And the water from the pond is the only thing moving...

[@mahdibayat1967]

Hi, I have a question. My laptop is Asus k556U core i7 but I have a problem when I am editing my videos in resolve davinchi. Especially when my videos are 4k. While I am editing, davinchi closes suddenly or sometimes stops completely. My question is if I change my hard disc from HDD to SSD can be useful? Do you have any suggestion to improve and solve this issue?

[@JamieFenn]

SSD and optimized media helps. Also try viewing/playback in quarter resolution

[@mahdibayat1967]

@@JamieFenn thanks

[@Cryptic808]

Instead of the deliver page, I just select ‘grab still from first frame’ which makes stills of the entire timeline in one step. The. Export the stills from the color page as a group.

[@JamieFenn]

True! Both work :D

[@nicholasfong3662]

Wait! How do you get all of them? I only know how to grab one

[@aboo0oo0dy554]

Jamie is there an access to your LUTs? i really want to use it on my projects. massive thanks!

[@JamieFenn]

Yea see my store! Link should be in the description. www.sellfy.com/jamiefenn

[@pinoybtcanalysis6576]

Can you save batches of photo? Like 10 on tiff?

[@OfficialThomasKauffman]

(HELP) downloaded the adobe converter, converted my raw files to dng files and when I import them to DR, they all look like a bunch of noise, reminds me of channel three back in 1990 when we lost signal. What am I doing wrong?

[@JamieFenn]

No idea. Weird.

[@Leukick]

Render TIFF format, does Instagram take TIFF files?

[@JamieFenn]

Not sure haha But you can convert to jpeg

[@canhvaxuyen]

can i export with camera profile inside the picture?

[@thetimesofziro6634]

I did search how to edit photo in davinci but i didnt find.One more question Jamie, is it as good as adobe photoshop?

[@JamieFenn]

Same but different. Photoshop is another whole world. Just wanted to show possibilities.

[@lbjmedia2151]

Great video. Is the workspaces size (being small) hard to work in?

[@JamieFenn]

Not for me!

[@freethoughtcreativestudio2824]

Hello I'm new to the photography scene.. Why's that when I'm trying to import my photos " RAW " the davinci can't read it. can you help me please?

[@JamieFenn]

Convert to DNG. Will be doing a tutorial here soon in the future that covers this

[@Makta972]

What's the export setting for a photo? What do you choose ?

[@EverythingFilmmaking]

When I bring images in..they look like a lut is automatically applied..@Jamie