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>What is the difference between "wrong white balance" and colour grading?
Colour grading is just adding a colour cast to specific tones. Most people just do it by choosing one colour for highlights, one for midtones, and one for shadows, but those three are arbitrary and you can to it do any section of a tone curve so long as your software supports it. That's just the easiest way of doing it in lightroom so that's what most people go with. You also don't need to add a cast to all sections of your tone curve if you don't want to. Wrong white balance changes the temp of your whole image, not just tonal sections. So this limits you to only making your colours warmer or colder, rather than adding a cast like in colour grading. It also applies to the whole image automatically, rather than just sections, unless you mask it I guess. Generally making your white balance off on purpose looks ugly, but then so does colour grading.

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