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Color Grading
Post-production adjustments of tonal response, hue and saturation establish a consistent intended appearance.
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Color Grade
This is the default recipe for the Color Grading and Natural Correction family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Work from a correctly color-managed plate and maintain stable material relationships over time. Choose the declared stylized or natural target without geometry changes, automatic hue cycling or channel clipping.
Color Grade: Post-production adjustments of tonal response, hue and saturation establish a consistent intended appearance. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Coordinate the color level of the same scene, highlighting key materials such as red bells or ingredients without changing the identity of the object.
- How it works
- First check the input and output color conversion, and then establish a reference with a neutral object./Adjust shadows, highlights, and key materials according to the target, checking the continuity of the selection behind hand and object occlusion by frame.
- Common mistakes
- Think of an action or occlusion as a trigger to change the global hue./White Balance Correction Removes all warm materials as well.
How to read this page
Color Grading is one technique in Color. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A one-room village school on its last day before closing forever, 1958: the old schoolmistress in a grey cardigan sets the repaired red-painted hand bell on her pale desk, turns it once, and rests her hand on it without ringing it.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Color Grade is a shot card
The full recipe for Color Grade is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
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References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Color grading
Wikipedia · Web
Grading alters colour, contrast and saturation in post to create a consistent look.
Videos
- Same shot: natural, graded and black-and-white
@Jello_Shooter · 2022-06-14 · X
Same shot as natural colour, a graded look, and black-and-white.
- Before/after: flat LOG footage vs graded
@414Anime_ · 2021-05-19 · X
Toggling flat LOG footage and the graded version: contrast and colour are built in the grade.
Images & stills
- No Film School: Grade before or after a LUT?
@nofilmschool · 2016-08-07 · X
Correct first, then apply a LUT/look.
- First attempt at grading LOG footage
@TartanLlama · 2022-03-31 · X
First colour-grade of LOG footage.
- Badland: film-emulation look for a western
@marktoddosborne · 2019-11-05 · X
Film-emulation look built for a western ("Badland").