Cinematic teal and orange that keeps skin its own colour

Teal pushed into the skies, greens and shadows, a cooler and darker frame with deeper contrast and a vignette, while skin keeps its own hue. The film-poster look without orange faces.

Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in True to camera Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in Cinematic teal & orange True to cameraCinematic teal & orange

Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Cinematic teal & orange at full strength, rendered from the same file.

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Cinematic teal & orange
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Cinematic teal & orange
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesTeal skies and shadows, a cooler and darker frame, skin keeps its hue, a vignette
Good forNight portraits, urban and coastal locations

When we'd reach for it

Night portraits, city and coastal locations, pre-wedding films and stills.

When we wouldn't

Ceremonies where the decor carries meaning. Teal shadows on a red mandap or a gold banquet hall pull against colours the family chose.

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.

Tone curve Copper: all channels. Blue dashes: the blue channel alone, lifted in the shadows and held down at the top.
Colour grading Dark dot: the tint in the shadows. Light dot: the tint in the highlights. Further from the centre means stronger.
  • Exposureless
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • Warmthless
  • Vibrancemore
  • Saturationless
  • Vignetteless
SlidersEach bar starts at the centre: right means more, left means less. The scale is CullTone's own, so it doesn't map one to one onto Lightroom's sliders.

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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