Color

The Color section is the largest panel in Adjustments, with five distinct groups. Open with D then scroll to Color (the section header itself is collapsible).

White Balance

Slider	Range	What it does
Temperature	−100 to +100	Negative cools (blue); positive warms (orange). Slider track is colored to match.
Tint	−100 to +100	Negative shifts toward magenta; positive shifts toward green. Slider track is colored to match.

A white balance picker (eyedropper icon, top-right of the group) lets you click a known-neutral spot in the image to set Temperature and Tint automatically. Available outside of mask mode.

New to this? What's white balance?

Sunlight at noon, candlelight, fluorescent tubes, and shade all have different color temperatures, measured in Kelvin (K). Cameras don't always guess right and the photo can look too blue or too orange. White balance is the correction. Temperature moves between blue↔orange; Tint moves between magenta↔green. The picker is the fastest way: click on something that should be neutral grey or white.

Presence

Slider	Range	What it does
Vibrance	−100 to +100	Boosts the saturation of less-saturated colors more than already-saturated ones. Easier on skin tones than Saturation.
Saturation	−100 to +100	Global multiplier on saturation. −100 produces a black-and-white image; +100 doubles every color.

Use Vibrance as a default for "more color", it protects warm skin tones and avoids the over-cooked look. Use Saturation when you want a uniform shift across the entire image (or down to monochrome).

Color Grading

A 3-Way + Global color wheel set, in the style of cinema color grading. There are two tabs:

3-Way (default), separate wheels for Shadows, Midtones, Highlights.
Global, a single wheel that affects the entire image equally.

Each wheel exposes:

Control	Range
Hue (wheel angle)	0° to 360°
Saturation (wheel distance from center)	0 to 100
Luminance (wheel slider)	−100 to +100

Two extra sliders apply to the whole color-grading group:

Slider	Range	What it does
Blending	0 to 100	Controls how much the three zones bleed into each other. Lower = harder zones; higher = smoother transitions.
Balance	−100 to +100	Shifts the Shadow/Highlight emphasis. Negative gives shadows more weight; positive gives highlights more weight.

How to use the wheels

Drag inside the wheel to set hue and saturation simultaneously. The slider next to each wheel is the Luminance for that zone.

A typical "teal & orange" cinema look: push Shadows toward teal (around 200°), Highlights toward orange (around 30°), small Saturation. Use Blending around 50–70 and Balance at 0 for a balanced effect.

Color Mixer (HSL)

Eight color ranges. Click a swatch to choose which range you're editing, then adjust the three sliders:

Color range	Approximate hue
Reds, Oranges, Yellows, Greens, Aquas, Blues, Purples, Magentas	distributed around the hue wheel

Slider	Range	What it does
Hue	−100 to +100	Shifts the selected color range toward neighboring hues (e.g. push Yellow → Orange or → Green).
Saturation	−100 to +100	Boosts or reduces saturation of just that color range. −100 desaturates that range entirely.
Luminance	−100 to +100	Brightens or darkens just that color range. Powerful for skies (drag Blues luminance down) and skin tone (small Orange luminance up).

The slider tracks are colored to preview the effect.

New to this? What's HSL?

HSL stands for Hue, Saturation, Luminance. It separates "what color is it" (hue), "how vivid is it" (saturation), and "how bright is it" (luminance). The HSL Color Mixer lets you target one of those three properties for a single color range, without affecting any other colors in the image. Common uses: deepening a blue sky (Blues → Luminance −20 to −40), brightening fall foliage (Oranges → Luminance +20), or converting the lightness of skin without changing saturation (Oranges → Luminance up).

Color Calibration

A camera-profile-style adjustment that shifts the Red, Green, Blue primaries independently. It's applied very early in the pipeline (think: sensor characterization), so it produces a different feel from the same change made via the wheels or HSL mixer.

Slider	Range
Shadows Tint	−100 to +100
Red Hue	−100 to +100
Red Saturation	−100 to +100
Green Hue	−100 to +100
Green Saturation	−100 to +100
Blue Hue	−100 to +100
Blue Saturation	−100 to +100

Color Calibration is not available inside masks, it's intended as a global per-image control.

What's available in masks

Group	Available in masks?
White Balance (Temperature, Tint)	Yes
Presence (Vibrance, Saturation)	Yes
Color Grading (3-Way + Global)	Yes
Color Mixer (HSL) — Hue/Saturation/Luminance	Yes
Color Calibration	No (global only)
White-balance picker	No (global only)