Film: Fuji cool, with fresh greens and cool, clean shadows

In the style of Fuji 400H: exposed a little bright, blacks soft, greens pushed toward mint, soft cyan-green shadows and cool, clean highlights, with a grain you can see.

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 Film: Fuji cool True to cameraFilm: Fuji cool

Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Film: Fuji cool at full strength, rendered from the same file.

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Film: Fuji cool
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Film: Fuji cool
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesMinty greens, cool shadows and highlights, a bright soft exposure, visible grain
Good forOvercast outdoor sessions, coastal and city portraits

When we'd reach for it

Overcast outdoor sessions, coastal portraits and city streets in flat light.

When we wouldn't

Deep skin in shade. Cool shadows can turn it grey, so check the faces or lower the strength.

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
  • Warmthless
  • Vibrancemore
  • Grainmore
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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