Kate T.C. Lin is a Senior Compositor with credits on Wednesday, The Morning Show, Willow, and See.

Her new series shows exactly what HeyGanz.com (launching early 2026) is for:high-precision lessons that solve the problems working compositors face daily.

She breaks grading down to first principles.
No filler.
No guesswork.
Just the mechanics that determine why an image reads correctly on screen.

Six lessons built on measurable logic:
• how luminance and chroma shape emotional response
• how the brain interprets brightness and color
• how to bend those interpretations deliberately
• how to direct attention without brute-force roto
• how to remove distractions through efficiency, not labour
• how to fake light direction cleanly and nondestructively

This is the type of clarity you only get from someone who has worked under production deadlines and understands what survives the pipeline.

HeyGanz exists for this.
Former students returning with field-tested methods, giving the next generation a cleaner path forward.

Kate shows what grading looks like when you replace guessing with understanding.