Match the color grade
One photo. Sixty seconds. How close can you get?
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How to play ColorGradle
ColorGradle is a free daily color grading game. Each day you get a raw photo and a graded target. You have 60 seconds to match the target's look using color grading sliders. Your score out of 100 is based on visual similarity, so any combination of sliders that looks right scores well — and finishing faster earns a bonus.
What each color grading slider does
- Exposure
- Brightens or darkens the whole image evenly — start here to match overall brightness.
- Lift
- Raises or crushes the shadows. Lifted blacks give a faded, filmic look.
- Gamma
- Shifts the midtones without touching pure blacks and whites.
- Saturation
- Controls color intensity, from black-and-white to vivid.
- Red, Green, Blue
- Additive color tints. Push one channel to warm, cool, or stylize the grade.
Tips to train your color grading eye
- Match brightness first, then contrast (lift and gamma), then color.
- Look at neutral areas — skies, walls, skin — to spot color casts.
- Play daily to build streaks and practice photo editing instincts.