

If you’re looking to learn color grading techniques, here are the steps to get started: Curves: This tool can adjust the overall brightness of the image as well as the individual red, blue, and green colors.Brightness and contrast work together increasing either one will affect the other. Brightness and contrast: adjusting these controls will either make your image lighter or darker.A cooler image will appear more blue-toned, while a warm image will have more reddish or sepia tones. White balance: this control allows you to adjust how warm or cool an image appears.Value (also referred to as lightness, brightness, or luma depending on the program): all of these terms refer to how light or dark a color is.If you reduce the saturation to zero the image will become black and white. Saturation: basically, saturation is how intense a color is.Hue: the main property of color, independent of brightness, or intensity.Before you get started in color grading, it’s good to familiarize yourself with the vocabulary terms used.
