Fifty-four looks, and you choose every one

A Saturday church wedding in white and a Sunday mehndi in marigold don't want the same edit. Pick a look for each wedding, change it for any single photo, and turn it up or down. CullTone never decides a family should get "red and gold" from their skin, clothes or ceremony.

Every look starts from your camera's own colour (how editing works) and then shapes contrast, colour, grading, vignette and grain. The same look on a Sony and a Canon file still starts from each camera's rendering.

The look belongs to the wedding, not to you, so each project gets the one that suits that family.

One frame, every look

The same garden first look rendered through each of the 54 looks at full strength, straight from CullTone. Open any one to see it on a studio portrait and a night dance floor, with its curve and settings drawn out.

General looks

For particular ceremonies

Middle Eastern ballroom gold

West African celebration

Latin fiesta colour

Mediterranean summer

Indian weddings, by region

Indian wedding: warm & rich

Indian wedding film

South Indian temple gold

Telugu turmeric & white

Gujarati bandhani colour

Marathi Paithani green

Thirty-three general looks

These suit any wedding or event, from barely there to unmistakable.

General looks, from closest to the camera to most stylised
Look	What it does	Good for
True to camera	The camera's own colour, with light exposure help only	When the camera already got it right
Editorial clean	Neutral, crisp and accurate: tidy highlights, clean colour, nothing stylised	Bridal editorials, headshots, brand work
Film: Portra warm	Soft blacks, creamy highlights, muted greens, flattering skin	Engagements, golden-hour couples, family sessions
Film: Fuji cool	Cool shadows, fresh greens, gentle contrast, fine grain	Overcast outdoor sessions, coastal and city portraits
Fine-art film	Matte blacks, creamy highlights, muted greens, fine grain: a soft medium-format feel	Garden and vineyard weddings, natural-light details
Light & airy	Lifted exposure and shadows, low contrast, slightly muted colour	See the skin note below
High-key bright	Lifted exposure and shadows, held highlights, soft colour	White studios, beach and snow, bright interiors
Matte pastel	Faded blacks, soft whites, low contrast, gentle pastel colour	Maternity, family sessions, pastel decor
Golden-hour glow	Warm glowing highlights, soft shadows, a faint vignette, without orange skin	Sunset couples, backlit portraits
Pre-wedding dreamy	Glowing highlights, gentle pastels, soft contrast, light vignette	Pre-wedding and engagement shoots in soft daylight
Cinematic teal & orange	Teal skies and shadows, untouched skin, deeper contrast, a vignette	Night portraits, urban and coastal locations
Moody & rich	Darker, deeper shadows, recovered highlights, warm-leaning fuller colour	See the skin note below
Low-key dramatic	Deep shadows, firm contrast, recovered highlights, vignette	Candle and diya light, night receptions
Vintage fade	Faded warm blacks, soft whites, muted colour, sepia-tinged highlights and grain	Heritage venues, family-archive feel
Black & white classic	Monochrome with luminous skin, gentle contrast, soft grain	Emotional ceremony moments, mixed-light venues
Black & white high contrast	Deep blacks, bright whites, dark skies, bold vignette	Dramatic portraits, dance floors
Event punchy	Firm contrast, healthy colour, open shadows, held stage lights	Conferences, parties, receptions with stage lighting
Real estate bright & true	Bright, neutral interiors with held windows and true colour	Interiors, architecture, hospitality
Earthy & muted	Warm browns, olive greens, quieter blues and soft contrast	Desert, field and boho sessions, rustic barns
Overcast lift	A little warmth, more mid-tone depth, livelier greens and skies	Overcast ceremonies, rainy days, open shade
Autumn rich	Yellow leaves toward amber, greens toward olive, warm shadows, light vignette	Fall sessions, forests and parks in October
Newborn soft cream	Creamy warm whites, calmer reds, soft contrast, gentle shadows	Newborn, maternity and nursery sessions
Food bright & fresh	Warm-neutral whites, fresh greens, rich reds and yellows, crisp texture	Menus, recipes, wedding cakes and catering
Product clean white	Casts removed, a white sweep kept white, exact colour, light contrast	Products on white, jewellery, flat lays
Travel vivid	Deeper blue skies, richer sea and foliage, firm contrast, held highlights	Destination weddings, coastlines, mountains
Sports punch	Deep contrast, bold kit colour, cooler shadows, held floodlights	Match action, club sports, motorsport
Concert stage	Stage magentas and blues turned down, deep blacks, held spotlights	Gigs, theatre, sangeet and reception stages
Street documentary	Firm contrast, quieter colour, darker edges, visible grain	Street, reportage and documentary weddings
Fashion editorial bold	Neutral whites, firm contrast, crisp blacks, richer reds and blues	Fashion and bridal editorials, styled shoots
Cinematic night	Cool blue shadows, warm practical lights and skin, deep blacks with detail	After-dark portraits, city streets, blue hour
Direct flash	Firm contrast, dark backgrounds, neutral skin, fine grain	Dance floors, late portraits, parties
Black & white soft matte	Faded charcoal blacks, soft whites, glowing skin, fine grain	Getting ready, newborn, tender family moments
Black & white warm toned	Monochrome with warm sepia highlights over neutral blacks	Heritage portraits, ceremony details, album covers

Eighteen looks for particular ceremonies

Cultural looks keep colours a general look would "correct". A red and gold banquet hall is supposed to be red and gold; candlelight and marigolds are supposed to be warm. Eight are for weddings and ceremonies around the world, and ten were made for Indian weddings, region by region.

Cultural looks, world first
Look	What it does	Good for
White wedding clean	Neutral, bright and true: clean whites with lace detail kept, gentle contrast	Church ceremonies, white gowns, neutral decor
Chinese red & gold	Deep true reds, warm gold highlights, rich clean contrast	Tea ceremonies, door games, red and gold banquet halls
Nikah soft pastel	Calm pastels: lifted shadows, gentle highlights, muted colour	Nikah, walima and mehndi with pastel decor and daylight halls
Korean studio bright	High, even brightness, low contrast, cream and blush colour	Korean and East Asian pre-wedding studio shoots
Middle Eastern ballroom gold	Ivory held with detail, champagne-gold highlights, deep open shadows	Gulf and Levant ballroom weddings
West African celebration	Rich fabric colour, deep skin kept full and warm, firm clean contrast	Nigerian and Ghanaian weddings, owambe parties
Latin fiesta colour	Pinks and magentas lifted, warm walls, clear blues, warm highlights	Mexican and Latin American weddings, haciendas
Mediterranean summer	Warm stone and terracotta, clear sea blues, soft olive greens	Italian, Greek and Spanish coast weddings

Indian weddings, by region

India-specific looks
Look	What it does	Good for
Indian wedding: warm & rich	Keeps marigold, haldi, tungsten and diya warmth; rich but natural reds and golds; lifted shadows	Indian weddings and events where the warm light is part of the day
South Indian temple gold	Deep silk reds and temple golds, warm glowing highlights	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Kerala temple ceremonies, muhurtham, jewellery portraits
Kerala natural green	Fresh true greens, clean ivory and kasavu gold, soft natural contrast	Kerala Hindu and Christian weddings, backwater and garden venues
Bengali red & white	Crisp whites and deep true reds with soft warm shadows	Sindoor daan, shubho drishti, red and white saree portraits
Punjabi bold	Punchy, joyful colour for bright outfits and dance floors; protected highlights	Sangeet, jaggo, baraat, Anand Karaj portraits
Rajasthani royal	Warm sandstone gold, rich jewel tones, deeper shadows, a regal vignette	Palace and fort venues, destination weddings in Rajasthan
Tamil silk & jasmine	Deep Kanjivaram reds and maroons, gold zari, jasmine kept white	Tamil weddings, temple and mandapam ceremonies
Telugu turmeric & white	White pelli sarees kept white, red borders, clean turmeric yellow	Telugu weddings, day ceremonies, pasupu
Gujarati bandhani colour	Bandhani reds, gharchola gold, garba-night colour, held highlights	Gujarati weddings, garba and dandiya nights
Marathi Paithani green	Paithani greens and peacock blues, gold borders, pearls kept bright	Marathi weddings, haldi and antarpat

Kannada, Malayali Muslim, Odia, Assamese and other regional traditions don't have a look of their own yet. A general look at a lower strength, or your own saved look, is the workaround for now.

Strength, per photo overrides and your own looks

Each look has a strength slider from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit; at 1, the look as designed; above 1, more of everything it does, without the colours changing character.

Set the look for the project when you create it. In the studio you can switch one photo to another look, which is handy for a black and white set inside a colour wedding. When a look is close but not quite yours, adjust it in the studio and save it as your own. It joins the 54 in your workspace, and a new version never replaces the old one until you say so. Or skip looks altogether and let CullTone learn your style from a Lightroom catalog.

Two looks that need work

Every look is tried on five test photos against our skin colour check. Most pass four of five. Moody & rich passes none. Light & airy passes one, so expect flags on faces in the Review step with either until we retune them.

None of the 54 has yet been judged against a working photographer's own edits.

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