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title: "Color Grading Mistakes and Fixes: Saturation, Clips, Skin"
description: "Common colour grading mistakes shown on a test scene in the free colorgrade.video studio: over-saturation on the vectorscope, crushed blacks in the Clipping…"
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# Color Grading Mistakes and Fixes: Saturation, Clips, Skin

* Duration:  0:44
* Published: November 5, 2026
* English captions

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Common colour grading mistakes shown on a test scene in the free colorgrade.video studio: over-saturation on the vectorscope, crushed blacks in the Clipping view and skin pushed off the skin tone line, with the fix for each.

[ Color grading tutorial · chapter 13 Color Grading Mistakes and How to Fix Them Ten mistakes that spoil most amateur grades, each with what it looks like, how to spot it on a scope and how to fix it in the studio.  Read the chapter ](https://colorgrade.video/color-grading-tutorial/mistakes) 

## Key moments

1. [ Over-saturation , starts at  0:00 ](#t=0)
2. [ Crushed blacks , starts at  0:13 ](#t=13)
3. [ Skin tones , starts at  0:25 ](#t=25)
4. [ Try it yourself , starts at  0:42 ](#t=42)

## Transcript

### Over-saturation  0:00

1. [ 0:01 A test scene with the waveform and vectorscope open. ](#t=1)
2. [ 0:03 Push Saturation too far and the vectorscope trace runs past the 75% targets. ](#t=3)
3. [ 0:08 Vibrance instead of Saturation keeps strong colours and skin in check. ](#t=8)

### Crushed blacks  0:13

1. [ 0:13 Heavy contrast crushes the blacks into a flat line on the waveform. ](#t=13)
2. [ 0:18 The Clipping view marks every crushed and clipped area, so ease it back. ](#t=18)

### Skin tones  0:25

1. [ 0:25 A strong look at full Intensity drags skin away from the skin tone line. ](#t=25)
2. [ 0:32 Protect skin tones and a lower Intensity bring the faces back to the line. ](#t=32)
3. [ 0:37 A split compare shows the fixed grade against the original. ](#t=37)

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