color-grading

Adjusting film tones

Color-grading is the process of adjusting the colors in film, video, or photography to achieve a particular look or mood.

It goes beyond basic color correction—which fixes technical problems—to create deliberate aesthetic choices: the teal-and-orange palette of action films, the desaturated bleakness of post-apocalyptic settings.

The color-grading gives the whole film a warm, nostalgic feel.

photography

presets

Saved default configurations

tint · exposure · highlights · shadows · curves · calibration

cinematic

colorist

One who applies pigment

mood · tone · visual style

broadcast

skin tone

Body's surface coloration

continuity · studio · transmission · master · QC

technical

gamma

Greek alphabet's third

dithering · histogram · clipping · noise reduction · sharpening · codec · compression · HDR · SDR · dynamic range

Opposites
image processing state

color-gradingraw footage

Unprocessed recorded material

raw image · source material · uncolored

creative intervention

color-gradingnatural color

Hue without added dyes

color accuracy · uncorrected · no-look

Family

color, colour, grading, grade, colors, colours, colored, coloured, colorful

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Rated G