Changing the mood of a scene through color grading

After taking some time to familiarize ourselves with Post Process Volume actors, it is now time to start looking at how to use the different functionalities we can find within them. The first section that we will cover is the first one that we can find if we look at the Details panel with one of those actors selected: the Color Grading section.

Color grading tools provide artists with a series of options that they can use to alter the look of the final image they render. Similar techniques have been prominent in motion pictures, for example, where the captured footage is adjusted to satisfy a particular need; be that the establishment of a stylized look or the ensuring of color continuity. What we are going to be doing in the following pages is exactly that, tweaking the default camera values to modify the look of our scene.

Getting ready

Seeing as we are going to be focusing on changing the look of our scene in this recipe...