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Color Grade Your Videos for Free Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and color of video files.

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Video Color Grading

Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and color of video files.

1

Upload Video

Drag and drop your video file or click to browse.

2

Adjust Colors

Tune brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue settings.

3

Apply & Download

Click Apply and download your color-graded video.

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What Is Video Color Grading?

The Video Color Grading tool is a free browser-based color editor for videos. Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and temperature to achieve the look you want. Preview changes in real-time before processing. Create warm, cool, vintage, or cinematic looks with intuitive sliders. The tool applies CSS filters and Canvas pixel manipulation to transform your video's color characteristics. It's perfect for correcting exposure, enhancing colors, or creating artistic color grades. All processing happens locally in your browser — no files are uploaded to any server.

Why Use Video Color Grading?

  • Real-time preview of all color adjustments
  • Multiple parameters: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue
  • No uploads — private client-side processing
  • Create cinematic, vintage, or custom color looks

Common Use Cases

Color Correction

Fix underexposed, overexposed, or color-cast issues in videos.

Cinematic Look

Create film-like color grades with adjusted contrast and saturation.

Vintage Effect

Apply warm, faded color grades for a retro or vintage aesthetic.

Brand Consistency

Match your color grade across multiple video clips for a cohesive look.

Technical Guide

The Video Color Grading tool applies CSS filter functions to the Canvas context using ctx.filter. Brightness, contrast, and saturation are applied via their respective CSS filter functions (brightness(), contrast(), saturate()). Hue rotation uses hue-rotate(). For the preview, the video element itself uses CSS filters for instant visual feedback. During processing, each frame is drawn onto the Canvas with the filter string applied, then captured via MediaRecorder. For more advanced pixel-level adjustments (like individual color channel manipulation or curves), the tool uses getImageData() to access raw pixel data, applies mathematical transformations to RGB values, and puts the modified data back with putImageData(). Temperature adjustments modify the red and blue channels independently.

Tips & Best Practices

  • 1
    Start with subtle adjustments — small changes can have a big visual impact
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    Use contrast and saturation together for a cinematic look
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    Reduce saturation slightly for a more film-like appearance
  • 4
    Preview changes before processing to avoid unwanted effects

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q What adjustments are available?
Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue rotation, and temperature. Each has a range slider for precise control.
Q Can I preview changes in real-time?
Yes! Adjust sliders and see the effect immediately on the video preview.
Q Is my video data private when color grading online?
Yes. All processing happens in your browser — no files are uploaded to any server.
Q Can I create preset looks?
You can manually dial in specific settings. Save your preferred values for future use.
Q Does it affect audio?
No, audio is preserved unchanged. Only the visual appearance is modified.

About This Tool

Video Color Grading is a free online tool by FreeToolkit.ai. All processing happens directly in your browser — your data never leaves your device. No registration or installation required.