Definition
Color grading is the process of adjusting and enhancing the color, contrast, and tonal qualities of a film or video in post-production. It goes beyond basic color correction (which ensures technical accuracy) to create a deliberate visual mood and style. Color grading can make a scene feel warm and nostalgic, cold and clinical, desaturated and bleak, or hyper-saturated and dreamlike. It is one of the final and most transformative steps in the post-production pipeline. When planning visual style during storyboarding in M Studio, describing your intended color palette in prompts helps generate reference frames that reflect your grading intent from the start.
