Picture & Color
Find the detail behind the doubt.
A bright screen, an uneven face or a shift between cameras can be hard to judge by eye alone. Keep the image beside measurements that help explain what changed.
Browser scopes
Monitor a camera, capture device, or generated pattern in your browser. Keep one scope large and preview the others alongside it. An active desktop Express or Professional license includes the matching web edition, including eligible linked CrewAxis access.
Investigate one question at a time.
Is the important subject exposed the way I want?
False color and high zebras make selected brightness ranges visible in Picture. In paid desktop editions, Face-guided skin-tone zebras limit color matches to detected cheeks and foreheads. Exposed skin checks the face and body, including hands and arms. Choose Set up model to download or import the shared model and check that it runs locally.
Follow a Picture example →Where did that level come from?
Waveform relates levels to horizontal image position; Histogram shows their distribution. Read the same scene from both perspectives.
Read the co-anchor waveform →What belongs to this subject?
Share a region or select an object locally, then inspect included samples in supported views. On Picture’s right toolbar, click the magic wand to toggle the desktop Auto-Select preview or hover to choose categories and options. If the model is missing, Set up model downloads and verifies MediaPipe for your Windows user without a restart. Professional also lets you import alternate model profiles and switch among them. Picture and supported scopes can show each model’s native categories. With MediaPipe selected, the optional Sapiens2 download adds a more detailed selection when you pause, using the same categories and colors. Sapiens2 prepares in the background and stays loaded while enabled. It tints skin, hair, and clothing, offers face-guided detail that follows motion and can stabilize brief dropouts, and can share the selection and colors with supported scopes. In App Settings, choose Steadier playback to keep Picture moving while selection catches up, or Synchronized selection to keep Picture and labels on the same frame. Filtered scopes always use matching masks. With Accessories selected, paused frames get extra detail around detected faces.
Explore subject selection →Know the tools? Look at how they connect.
Use editable references, independent channel plots, native pixel inspection and a shared analysis region to carry one question across views. Combined Comparison Waveform + Vectorscope keeps exposure and color together. Rolling 3D histories make recent sampled changes easier to revisit.
Browse the scope inventory →Learning to read a scope?
Our guides use recognizable subjects and numbered reading notes. Start with where the faces fall in a waveform, then connect stage lighting with a vectorscope trace.
Read a color example →Put the tools to work.
Choose your edition, follow a worked example, or continue exploring.