Chinese red and gold: deep reds for tea ceremonies
Deep, true reds, warm gold highlights and rich, clean contrast, so a qipao stays the red it is.
A look for one kind of ceremony. You choose it per project; CullTone never picks it from the people in the frame.
True to cameraChinese red & gold
Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Chinese red & gold at full strength, rendered from the same file.
| What it does | Deep true reds, warm gold highlights, rich clean contrast |
|---|---|
| Good for | Tea ceremonies, door games, red and gold banquet halls |
When we'd reach for it
Tea ceremonies, door games, red and gold banquet halls.
When we wouldn't
A white-gown church ceremony later the same day. Switch looks for that part of the wedding.
The recipe
These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.
Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.
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Try Chinese red & gold on your own photos
Start a trial, create a project and pick this look. The studio shows it on your frames, at any strength, before anything renders.