Color correction is the post production process of manually adjusting your footage in order to find a correct balance between exposure, color temperature, and contrast. Typically, color correction requires you to correct the white balance, adjust the shadows, midtones and highlights, contrast and set the overall balance for your footage. Typically performed after color correction, Color Grading is the creative process of refining your footage so that further enhancements are made to image’s color, contrast, lighting within the image, color gradients and more to help convey a feeling or mood. Adding a creative look and/or emulating film stock is also done during the color grading process. Simply put, color correction intends to normalize the footage to a consistent, balanced state, while color grading aims to creativity enhance it. PixelTools Vol. 1 provides a wide variety of PowerGrades presets that assist both the color correction and grading processes. While you can certainly use any PowerGrade “as-is”, we strongly encourage you to use them as a starting point and adjust, as necessary, to best suit your specific footage.