Switch into Colour Mode — a first-of-its-kind colour grading system in Adobe Premiere (beta) designed from the ground up for video editors. With all-new tools that work the way you think, you can finally craft brilliant colour with confidence and control — right next to your edit.
Every control, layout and interaction in Color Mode was built for video editors. You don’t need to learn a new workflow — it works the way you think, from the tools you use to how colour moves across your timeline.
Whether you’ve been grading for years or you’re just getting started, Colour Mode turns what you see in your head into what you see on screen. The gap between how you wish your video looked and your finished result just got a lot smaller.
Colour Mode rewards curiosity. Push a look to its limits, move it anywhere and get lost in your creative flow — the whole system is built to make exploration feel effortless and fun. Get familiar with it in days, not weeks or months.
Brand-new systems for grading make Colour Mode unique. From intuitive controls to new inventions for moving work, you've never graded like this before.
Colour Mode maximises your monitor and puts the image first on any screen. The Clip Grid gives you a visual map of your entire sequence. Panels move, layouts flex and a contextual heads-up display shows you what you need as you need it — then gets out of the way.
All-new bi-directional controls animate as you use them, giving you instant visual feedback on every adjustment. Shape contrast and pivot, temperature and tint — two dimensions at once with a single gesture. Zones let you target shadows and highlights for precise adjustment.
Styles are complete cinematic looks you can apply in one click, then customise endlessly. Built from Modules — individual colour effects powered by real colour science — every Style is non-destructive, fully editable and stackable. Start with dozens of built-in film emulations and looks or build your own from scratch.
Operations are a new way to organise and move colour across your edit. Grade one clip, a customised group or your entire sequence — then move and reorganise by dragging and dropping. No layers. No more copying and pasting attributes. Actually understand how colour is flowing through your timeline.
Most Colour Mode controls are bi-directional. Move your mouse up and down for one control, left and right for the other. Or press shift for precise single-axis adjustments. Each control activates a unique heads-up display with scopes, numeric info and real-time animated feedback that guides your creativity with confidence and clarity.
Adjust contrast and pivot for customised, fluid balance between shadows and highlights.
Adjust exposure and black level to control brightness and fine shadow detail.
Move up and down for temperature, left and right for tint.
Shift colour balance in any direction to correct or add creative tone.
Add or subtract the strength of colour in your clips.
Adjust global, single or multi-band texture detail.
Add fine sharpness or blur to your clips with radii and threshold controls.
Grade your entire image at once.
Create multiple preset or customised shadow zones to isolate your grades to dark areas of your image.
Create multiple preset and customised highlight zones to isolate your grades to bright areas of your image.
Make specific hues more or less saturated with bi-directional controls to edit the amount and correction of hues.
Colour Mode automatically surfaces the most prominent hues of any image for faster grading. Or use an eyedropper along with the complete RGB spectrum to find the right colour to edit.
Change the direction of a specific hue with bi-directional controls to edit the amount and correction of hue.
Change the brightness of a specific hue with bi-directional controls to edit the amount and correction of a hue.
Simulate and customise dozens of combinations of authentic film emulations with bi-directional control over colour and contrast strength along with shadow/highlight protection and tone.
Recreate subtle or bold contrast density curves that make it easy to craft real film contrast.
Advanced shadow controls with Bezier curves that are easy to use.
Multiple cinematic look developments with pre-graded modules. Take them as they are or customise.
Style presets exploring warm and cool temperature ranges.
Style presets optimised for different lighting conditions and environments.
Style presets with creative saturation treatments.
Black and white style presets with nuanced tonal control.
Combine modules (with many more coming soon) to create your own styles from scratch.
We built Colour Mode with feedback from hundreds of editors across the globe. Here's what they have to say.
Matte Johnson
YouTube Creator, @WhoIsMatt
"Adobe Premiere's new Colour Mode feels like the largest update to the app has ever received! Colour grading has only grown in importance over the years. Having an editor-first colour grading system that reimagines how to easily achieve professional colour is truly a game changer."
Kelsey Brannan
YouTube Creator, @PremiereGal
“Premiere’s new Colour Mode is a complete redesign that makes colour correction and grading feel dramatically more intuitive while raising the level of professional control advanced editors expect. The refreshed layout and tools streamline the entire workflow, making it faster and more fluid to move from quick fixes to precise grading without breaking creative momentum.”
Drex Lee
Global Creator Sensation
“In my world of epic one-shots, you only get one chance to capture the soul of a moment. Colour Mode in Premiere is how I make that moment immortal, giving me the emotional depth to tell stories that resonate with millions. It is the bridge between a raw vision and a cinematic masterpiece."
Josh Olufemii
Filmmaker, Educator @Olufemmi
“Literally been waiting for this day for yeeears. Premiere’s new Colour Mode feels like a long-awaited refresh to the way colour works in the app. The interface is cleaner, the tools are easier to access and it’s much quicker to move from basic corrections to more precise grading. It’s a thoughtful redesign that makes the whole process feel smoother. LOVE IT.”
Lila Traka
Filmmaker, @LilafromYouTube
"Premiere's new Colour Mode works the way my brain works. The icon-based controls, grading with zones and the Styles system make the whole process so intuitive. It just makes sense."
Chris Grubisa
Video Creator, Video Strategist, Entrepreneur
“Most software evolves by stacking features on top of old architecture. Adobe did the harder thing. They completely tore out the ‘old way’ and rebuilt it from the ground up. For editors, having a grading experience that’s faster, cleaner and far more precise is everything. Colour Mode is a reset for what colour grading software should be.”
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