Tamil silk and jasmine: deep reds, gold and white flowers

Cleaner and less warm than South Indian temple gold: jasmine stays white, Kanjivaram reds and maroons go deeper, and gold zari stays bright.

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 Tamil silk & jasmine True to cameraTamil silk & jasmine

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

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Tamil silk & jasmine
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Tamil silk & jasmine
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesDeep Kanjivaram reds and maroons, bright zari gold, neutral whites
Good forTamil weddings, temple and mandapam ceremonies

When we'd reach for it

Tamil Hindu weddings, temple and mandapam ceremonies, the muhurtham at dawn.

When we wouldn't

Warm lamp-lit evenings you want kept golden. South Indian temple gold keeps more of that warmth.

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.
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • 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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