Mediterranean summer: terracotta, sea blues and olive greens

Southern European summer: warm stone and terracotta, clear aqua and sea blues, greens toward a soft olive, sunlit highlights over slightly cool shadows.

A look for one kind of ceremony. You choose it per project; CullTone never picks it from the people in 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 Mediterranean summer True to cameraMediterranean summer

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

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Mediterranean summer
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Mediterranean summer
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesWarm stone and terracotta, clear sea blues, soft olive greens
Good forItalian, Greek and Spanish coast weddings

When we'd reach for it

Italian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Croatian coast and villa weddings, island elopements.

When we wouldn't

Northern forests and rainy days. Olive greens and sea blues need the sun.

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
  • Vibrancemore
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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