Earthy and muted: olive greens and warm browns for boho

Greens pulled toward olive, blues and aquas turned down, a touch of warmth and a soft black. Calm colour that lets linen, wood and dry grass carry the frame.

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 Earthy & muted True to cameraEarthy & muted

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

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Earthy & muted
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Earthy & muted
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesWarm browns, olive greens, quieter blues and soft contrast
Good forDesert, field and boho sessions, rustic barns

When we'd reach for it

Desert and field sessions, autumn elopements, barns and anything styled in linen, rattan and dried flowers.

When we wouldn't

A garden chosen for its bright green lawn. This look will quietly turn it olive.

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 Dashed line: no change. Points are where the look bends the curve.
Colour grading Dark dot: the tint in the shadows. Light dot: the tint in the highlights. Further from the centre means stronger.
  • Exposuremore
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • Warmthmore
  • Vibranceless
  • Saturationless
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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