Using the Colors Tool to Refine Your Capture’s Appearance

Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise
Available on Polycam Web

The Colors Tool allows you to fine-tune the appearance of your capture directly within Polycam. You can adjust various image properties such as exposure, contrast, color temperature, tint, saturation, and vibrance to better match the look and feel you’re going for, or to correct lighting issues from your original environment.

These adjustments are visual only on Polycam web, and does not reflect on your exported file. 

Where to Find the Colors Tool

1. Open a capture in your Polycam library.

2. Navigate to a capture you want to edit

3. Select Colors from the available editing tools.

4. Use the sliders to make your adjustments in real time.

Understanding Each Adjustment

Exposure

Controls the overall brightness of the capture.

• Increase exposure to brighten a dark scene.

• Decrease exposure to reduce overly bright highlights.

Contrast
Adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas.

• Higher contrast makes shadows darker and highlights brighter.

• Lower contrast flattens the image and reduces intensity.

Color Temperature

Shifts the warmth or coolness of the image.

• Increase temperature for warmer tones (more yellow/orange).

• Decrease temperature for cooler tones (more blue).

Tint

Adds a subtle color shift between green and magenta tones.

• Useful for correcting color casts caused by indoor lighting or reflections.

Saturation

Controls the intensity of all colors.

• Increase saturation to make colors more vivid.

• Decrease saturation to mute or grayscale the image.

Vibrance

A smarter version of saturation that selectively boosts muted colors without over-saturating skin tones or already vivid areas.

• Best used when you want a more natural color enhancement.