TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Intermediate

5 min

Explore new creative looks with color grading

Add different color tints to the shadows, midtones, or highlights of a photo to evoke a mood or create a visual style.

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What you learned

Adjust color and tone for creative looks

The Color Grading controls in Lightroom let you creatively apply color tinting to specific tonal areas in your photo to achieve a specific mood, style, or look. You can determine the hue (color), saturation and luminance of the tint and apply different tints to the shadows, midtones, or highlights. The blending and balance controls offer additional ways to fine-tune the effect. With a global Color Grading adjustment, you can apply a single-color tint to the entire image.


Instruction and photography by

Kenneth Hines Jr.

14 July 2025

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