Good. I haven’t worked with color grading much, but I can see a lot of potential in it for various effects. The way I use it is to create a more “nostalgic” feeling by making the dark areas warmer in tone, as well as shifting the black pixels to “very dark brown” pixels.
Attached is a photo I recently used color grading on (I don’t use it very often). The far left rendition is the original. Obviously underexposed. The middle one is edited normally. It’s not bad, but it looks too “normal” to me. Even though I love the composition and subject, it’s taken in the middle of the day. So I added a little “nostalgia” to it by adding warmth to the “Shadows” and coolness to the “Highlights”. Moving the sliders below the color circles changes how much of the color is applied to the pure white pixels or the pure black pixels. You’ll see when you experiment with it, but moving the Shadows slider to the right is turning the pure black pixels into warmer and increasingly lighter pixels, ie. very dark brown. With nothing pure black in the photo (and in this situation, nothing pure white . . . take a look at the histogram), then it looks kinda hazy, with a hint of sepia, thus “nostalgia”.
