Punjabi bold: punchy colour for sangeet and baraat nights

Punchy, joyful colour for bright outfits and dance floors, with the highlights protected.

One of the six looks made for Indian weddings, region by region. 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 Punjabi bold True to cameraPunjabi bold

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

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Punjabi bold
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Punjabi bold
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesThe punchiest look: firm contrast, bold pinks, purples, blues and yellows
Good forSangeet, jaggo, baraat, Anand Karaj portraits

When we'd reach for it

Sangeet, jaggo, the baraat, Anand Karaj portraits.

When we wouldn't

Quiet, soft-light portraits, where it can overpower skin.

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 No grading. The colour comes from the camera and the sliders.
  • 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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