Layer Type · Adjustment
A non-destructive grade applied to everything beneath it — targetable at any PBR channel, not only colour.
An adjustment layer — hue graded across the whole material, live.
An adjustment layer re-grades whatever shows through it, without altering the layers below — hide it and the original is back. It’s the right tool when a stack is nearly right and just needs a tonal pass over the top.
What makes it more than a colour tool: you can route it to a specific channel. Knock the roughness of everything below down by 20%, or shift only the metallic — the grade doesn’t have to touch base colour at all.
The five operations
Shift hue, push or pull saturation and value across everything below.
Lift or crush the whole material with two sliders.
Input/output range plus gamma — the precise tonal remap.
Warm the shadows, cool the highlights — cinematic colour shifts.
Remap luminance through a colour ramp — thermal, duotone and stylised looks.
In practice