> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryflowy.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Color Correction

> Balance exposure and contrast, shift white balance, and grade with curves.

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};

Studio's color tools split into two groups: the primary sliders on the **Color** sub-tab, always present for every visual clip, and the additional grade effects you add from the **Effects** rack.

<DemoVideo src="/videos/studio/effects-color.mp4" poster="/images/posters/studio/effects-color.jpg" caption="Balancing a clip with exposure and contrast, then warming it with temperature" />

## Primary corrections — Color tab

Select a clip and open **Properties → Color**. These three sliders cover most fixes:

| Control        | Range       | What it does                                                         |
| -------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Exposure**   | −4 to +4 EV | Brightens or darkens in photographic stops — +1 EV doubles the light |
| **Contrast**   | −1 to +1    | Compresses or expands the spread between shadows and highlights      |
| **Saturation** | −1 to +2    | Drains color toward monochrome or pushes it past natural intensity   |

All three default to 0, which leaves the clip untouched.

## Grade effects — Effects rack

Open **Properties → Effects**, pick an effect from the dropdown, and press **Add**.

### Brightness

A single **Amount** slider (−1 to +1) that lifts or lowers the whole image uniformly. Use **Exposure** when you want a photographic response; use Brightness for a straight linear push.

### Temperature

A **Warm/Cool** slider (−1 to +1). Positive values warm the image toward orange, negative values cool it toward blue — the classic white-balance fix for footage shot under mismatched lighting.

### Tint

A **Magenta/Green** slider (−1 to +1) that shifts along the axis Temperature doesn't cover. Pair the two to neutralize almost any color cast.

### Curves

A tone map built from control points, applied to the channel you choose:

* **Channel** — **RGB** grades all channels together for contrast shaping; **Red**, **Green**, or **Blue** grades one channel for color work.
* The default curve is a straight line from black to white, meaning no change; moving points remaps input tones to output tones, with values blended smoothly between points.

Under the hood, Flowy's color engine follows the same conventions as professional grading tools — CDL-style lift/gamma/gain and RGB curves — so grades translate predictably if you're coming from Resolve or Premiere.

<Tip>
  Order matters: effects apply top to bottom in the rack. Correct first (temperature, tint), then grade (curves) — the same clip reads differently if the curve runs before the white-balance fix.
</Tip>