@oedipax Good to hear. Looks like I finally got everything debugged.

Gonna go to bed, if there are anymore problems with the site or the downloads, OR if you run into any installation problems not covered in the latest documentation - msg me and I'll get it all sorted out when I wake up, and then I'll get to work finishing this PDF listing the GHears and their functions, and knocking out the next 2 tutorials.

Enjoy, and know that the tutorials coming over the next month will have some really cool stuff in them. The 4 that are up now are just the basics to get you started. But the next 2 deal with tracking, masks, and customization of your GHears. They are going to be followed by tutorials that cover working with entire scenes, how to break down your film into manageable chunks for grading, tech pass vs. style pass, in depth color theory, working with scopes, targeting grain, building your own GHears and film stocks, and then finally how using ColorGHear will prepare you for SpeedGrade because there are a LOT of similarities.

@chauncy Um, not entirely. A Premium Member ship is $50, but if you buy the plug-in for $25 (limited time only - ends Feb 15th then it will go up to its full retail price of $50) you get your membership included for free.

So put simply, buy the plug-in and get a free membership. It's a funky way of doing things, I know, but it's the only way I could get the member server and store to work together without some really odd errors.

I'm hunting for sceenschots of exactly what it does, any help there? Checked the website, didn't see any.

@shian

Just saw the video embed. It's a vimeo, so you have to wait for it to load before you can skip around to find out exactly what it does/is. Or I may have missed that explanation on the site.

Would it be beneficial to have a text page with screenshots of the plugins controls etc to show what it does without having to load a 15 or 60 minute video? For those who can't spend the time hunting through the footage.

Great work Shian!
I must say that I was sceptical at first, it seemed to me like a bunch of useless after effects presets. Actually I paid just to gain access to Shian's tutorials and to learn some new tips on Color Grading. But after 10 min playing with ColorGhear I realized how wrong I was!
ColorGHear is an excellent tool and I'm surprised how versatile it is .
Keep up the good work!

@jobless Thanks, man. It really means a lot that you guys are liking it. And you haven't seen anything yet. It'll probably take me until the 10th or 12th tutorial to cover just how versatile it is, and then you'll understand what it is you have living inside After Effects now - a color grading monster.

@shian

I'm having issues with the install. Any ideas where that "User Presets" folder might be hiding?

Alright. Could you clarify what you mean by adding a "layers adjustment" to the adjustment layer.

@artiswar

user presets for windows 7, vista, are C:\Users\username\Documents\Adobe\After Effects CS5.5\User Presets. You can also put them in the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5.5\Support Files\Presets and browse presets in ae to find them.

@kholi the presets are essentially a backdoor way of programming into After Effects the same tools I have at my disposal at work when I'm grading in SpeedGrade and Davinci. I don't use them as layers, but more like nodes. And then in the tutorials I teach you how to use them to get the kind of results I get. What you're really paying for is the tutorials, and my experience as a Professional Colorist. The main difference between this collection and the others you might have seen, is that I have fine-tuned the toolkit for cleaning and punching up DSLR footage, but if you feel its not for you, don't buy it. I'm sure @jobless felt the same way, but he very quickly learned that ColorGhear is much more than a set of looks.

It's the exact same set of tools I used on "The Cell 2" - Yes, I did the grading for all the FX scenes as well as the compositing in CS3 because the producers wanted something more interesting to look at while doing QC. I removed them for the Digital Intermediate, but when Fotokem couldn't reproduce my results in Davinci I was asked to put the looks back in. So every scene in that movie that contains a visual effect was color graded with a very primitive version of ColorGHear, it wasn't even called ColorGHear yet, it was just a folder full of AE presets I had created over the years that allowed me to work very quickly. I also used it on my award winning short film: "Singularity".

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832549/

@shian

I have recieved the Download link.
But not Registration details for member login? I have send u a message from website...

@zorba - tracking it down now, I see your receipt, and will activate your membership with a temp password that you can change after logging in. But in the meantime, try checking your spam filter.