Colour grading & look development · Working

Colour correction

Also called: color correction

ELI5

Technical and creative adjustment used to balance and match images before or within a grade.

“The colour correction changes the audience’s experience, so judge it against the whole scene.”

You may encounter “Colour correction” in editing, colour, post & delivery conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how recorded material becomes a finished, approved and technically deliverable work.

Colour gradeColour correction normalises and balances images; grading also develops the creative look. In practice the terms often overlap.
ColouristComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.