Levels or Lumetri to raise up blackness of a scene?

[Letty2019]

Hello,

I'm trying to darken up an interior scene of a restaurant by increasing the black colors.

Should I use levels ?  or is it better to increase the black color in Lumetri?

Watcha think?

(I'm thinking levels lowers all the levels including whites, so it will dull out the image? and maybe lumetri just affects the black color only?)

Thanks,

Letty

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

The most efficient and effective workflow depends entirely on the clip. Lumetri has a bunch of tools, Curves is another good tool. Levels also work well for some kinds of color grading and most of my composites have at least one layer somewhere with Levels applied. It all depends on what you have to work with. 

Show us a frame and describe the shot and maybe we can make some meaningful suggestions.

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[Letty2019]

Thanks Rick,  actually, I found the 'black' setting in levels, that will let me raise the black level only, while leaving alone the brighter sections of the image.  I'll go with that.