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Google Photos covers quick colour fixes on almost any Android phone. Here is what each control does, where it stops, and how to go further without paying for an app.
The free way to colour grade a video on Android is Google Photos: open the clip, tap Edit, use Auto > Enhance for a one-tap fix, then Adjust for sliders such as Warmth, Tint and Saturation, and Filters for a ready-made look. Each control has a dial you turn, and Done applies it. That handles most casual clips without another app.
What Google Photos can’t do is load a LUT, convert log footage or shift one colour on its own. For those, the grader at the top of this page runs in Chrome on the phone, so you can apply a LUT to the video, convert log footage to Rec.709 or change a single colour without installing anything. iPhone owners can follow the iPhone version of this guide.
Open the clip in Google Photos and tap Edit. Google’s help page notes that the Adjust tools need Android 8.0 or later and at least 3 GB of RAM, so on some older phones they will be missing.
Under Auto, Enhance improves colour and lighting in one tap. Treat it as a first draft: if the result is too punchy or too warm, carry on in Adjust rather than starting from scratch.
Pick a control, turn the dial, and tap Done (or Cancel). For colour, the useful ones are Warmth and Tint for a cast, Saturation for intensity, Skin tone and Blue tone for faces and skies, and White point and Black point for the ends of the range.
Under Filters, choose a Filter and turn the dial to set its strength; None removes it. Effect holds stylised treatments such as B&W Film, Light leak and Lomo. Save when you are happy.
Google’s help page lists these Adjust controls for video: Brightness, Contrast, White point, Highlights, Shadows, Black point, Saturation, Warmth, Tint, Skin tone, Blue tone, Vignette and HDR effect. Grouped by job, they make more sense:
Google announced a redesigned video editor for Android and iOS in December 2025, with a multi-clip timeline, templates and music. Its announcement did not describe changes to the colour controls, but the layout of the screens may differ from older screenshots you find online.
Every setting applies to the whole frame. There are no colour wheels, no curves, no way to change one colour on its own and no LUT import. Google’s help page also lists no tool for matching one clip to another, so a set of clips from different phones has to be evened out by eye.
Many phone makers ship their own gallery app with a video editor, and the names and positions of its colour sliders vary from brand to brand and from one software update to the next. If yours has a white balance or saturation slider, it does the same job as the Google Photos controls above.
CapCut for Android is the most common next step. Select a clip and tap Adjust for Color correction, Color match and sliders, and Apply all to put the same settings on every clip. CapCut’s own pages don’t say whether colour matching or custom LUTs need a Pro subscription, and they describe LUT import only for the desktop app, so check the app before relying on it. Our CapCut colour grading guide has the details.
The grader on this page runs in Chrome on Android and processes the video on the phone itself, so nothing is uploaded. Choose Select video, then:
Samsung Log is not among the built-in Footage profiles, because its maths has not been published. Get Samsung’s official conversion LUT from Samsung, load it with Import LUT, and set Apply LUT to Before the grade. The clip turns from flat and grey into normal contrast first, and anything you then do with the wheels, sliders or looks is applied on top, the order a colourist would use.
The usual trade-off applies: exporting writes a fresh encode of every frame, and a long 4K clip takes a while on a phone’s processor. For a handful of clips it saves installing and learning a full mobile editor.
Yes. Open the video, tap Edit, and use Auto > Enhance, the Adjust controls (including Warmth, Tint, Saturation, Skin tone and Blue tone) and Filters. Adjust needs Android 8.0 or later and 3 GB of RAM, according to Google.
Google Photos has no LUT import. Download the .cube or .3dl file, open the video in the grader on this page in Chrome, go to Pro tools > LUT and choose Import LUT. LUT intensity controls the strength, and Interpolation offers Tetrahedral or Trilinear.
Convert it to normal colour first with Samsung’s official LUT, loaded through Import LUT with Apply LUT set to Before the grade, then grade on top. Samsung Log is not one of the built-in Footage profiles, so the LUT is the honest route.
It depends on the job. Google Photos is already installed and fine for quick global fixes. CapCut suits multi-clip edits. A browser grader is handy when you need LUTs, wheels, curves or HSL for a clip or two without installing another app.
Google’s help page says the video Adjust tools need Android 8.0 or later and at least 3 GB of RAM. On phones below that, only some editing options appear.
In CapCut, Apply all copies the adjustment to every clip. In the browser grader, Copy grade (Shift+C) on one clip and Paste grade (Shift+V) on the next; the copied grade survives opening another video in the same browser.