Color

[glorybound]

How are you all managing your colors? The viewport shows them perfectly, but the render is way off. Sun/Sky/HDRI and a V-Ray camera. I usually drop a gray ball in my scene and do a white balance using it. The materials are about 30% too bright, and using a color correction is hard to balance. 10% darker on a light material is different than 10% on a dark material, so it's a guessing game. Basically, I manually adjust all colors in PS using masks. There has to be a better way.

[glorybound]

Does nobody have any tips?

[fixeighted]

These days I rarely use PS for this, rather stick a cryptomatte, or many of them, on the scene and adjust everything from the VFB.
It is very quick and far simpler than PS masks.
I only look at the viewport representation as a guide.

[glorybound]

My colors are so off; I find that hard to do. I do that to brighten/darken, but colors are complex.

[piotrus3333]

screenshots? examples?