Colour Grading
Upload a photo and see how temperature, tint, saturation and hue affect your specific colours.
Colour grading is adjusting the colours in your photo so the mood is right. Upload a photo, pull out its dominant colours and see straight away how temperature, tint, saturation and hue affect your palette.
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You load your photo into Lightroom, but you're not sure which direction to take the colours. Warmer can tighten a photo or flatten it. More saturation works completely differently on a frame full of orange than on one that's mostly blue.
Upload your photo and the tool picks out the five most characteristic colours. For each colour you see what temperature, tint, hue, saturation and lightness do. Click a variant and the photo updates live. Press the photo to see the original.
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William Eggleston, Wes Anderson and Alex Webb are available as complete Lightroom and Capture One presets, with HSL, curves and grain.
See the presetsColour Grading: how it works
Upload a photo and the tool immediately extracts the dominant colours from your image. Then adjust temperature, tint, saturation and hue angle and watch what happens to your colour palette in real time. Useful when you want to understand a colour profile before recreating it in Lightroom or Capture One.
What the sliders actually control
Temperature shifts your colours from cool blue to warm orange, expressed in Kelvin. Tint corrects the green-magenta axis, which you often need to deal with under artificial or mixed lighting. Saturation controls colour intensity across the whole image, and hue angle rotates the dominant colour tone around the colour wheel.
Those four parameters are exactly what sits under the hood of any colour correction workflow, whether you're working in a camera app, a RAW editor or a professional suite. Experimenting with this tool on a photo with known colours builds intuition faster than adjusting by feel and hoping for the best.
From colour extraction to a consistent look
The dominant colours the tool extracts give you an objective read of what visually dominates your frame. That's useful when you're trying to keep a series of shots consistent: you can see straight away whether skin tones, background colours or accent colours are lining up.
If you want to go further and understand how the white point affects your palette before you grade, White Balance & Colour Temperature pairs well with this tool. Getting the white balance right first means your saturation and tint adjustments are working on a clean foundation.
Frequently asked questions
How do I use hue angle to shift one specific colour without affecting the rest of the image?
Hue angle rotates all colour tones at once, so it's not a selective adjustment. For targeted colour shifts you need an HSL panel in Lightroom or Capture One. Use hue angle here to understand which direction a colour moves before making that change in your editor.
When does saturation start clipping colours and how do I spot it?
Clipping happens when a colour channel hits its maximum value and loses detail, usually visible as flat, plastic-looking areas in reds or oranges. Watch the dominant colour swatches as you push saturation up. If a swatch goes solid with no tonal variation, you've likely clipped that channel.
Why do the extracted dominant colours not match what I see as the main colour in my shot?
The extraction picks the statistically most frequent colours, not necessarily the ones that draw the most visual attention. A large neutral background can outweigh a vivid accent colour that your eye is drawn to. Crop the photo to the area you want to analyse and re-upload for a more targeted result.