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# About Colour Grading

Lustre provides interactive colour grading tools for the creation of continuity grades and artistic colour effects. You can perform advanced colour grading in either logarithmic or linear colour space as well as save colour grading settings for future sessions and ongoing use. While you manipulate the colour content of a shot, you can monitor reference images, as well as changes you make to the colour distribution of the shot to ensure that you achieve the result you want.

Because grades are saved as metadata rather than as part of the shot, the original image is always preserved—you can adjust colours without the risk of permanently losing the original colour of your image. Grade metadata is stored on a shot-by-shot basis, ensuring that your colour grades are applied to the correct shot regardless of any changes you make to a cut.

#### Topics in this section

- Colour Grading Workflow
- Colour Grading Concepts