Free online colour grading

Film looks for
photo + video.

Turn an everyday shot into a film still. Choose a look, make it yours, and save it. Your photos and clips stay on your device.

Sunlight through a woodland path with the soft, lifted colours of Komorebi The same sunlit woodland path before Halation grading OriginalKomorebi
One photo, before and after. Photo credits

No account. No upload. Free full-resolution export.
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF · MP4, MOV, WebM

01 — Looks

Sixteen starting points, all editable.

Choose a look to try it on a sample, then bring your own photo or video. Adjust the intensity and every setting to make it yours.

02 — Start here

Your next shot,
a little more cinema.

Start with a photo or a short standard-range clip. Three steps, all in your browser.

  1. Choose your shot

    Open a photo or clip from your device, or use a sample to get a feel for the editor.

  2. Find your look

    Choose a preset. Adjust Look intensity, then drag across the image to compare with the original.

  3. Save it locally

    Save a photo as JPEG or export your clip. Your original file stays untouched.

Make a photo look like film →Colour grade a video →
03 — Journal

Notes on colour.

Working notes on grading, film emulation and the maths underneath. The latest three are below; the rest are in the journal.

21 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a look: Nocturne

Cool ambient light, warm practicals and dense shadows—the exact settings behind Halation's night-exterior preset.

Emulation 7 Oct 2026

Black and white is a channel decision

Removing colour is only the start. RGB weights decide how red, green and blue become tonal contrast.

Mono 23 Sep 2026

Linear light is for physics, gamma is for taste

Exposure and white balance need light-proportional values. Contrast and colour need a space that behaves the way the finished image looks.

Pipeline

Browse all colour notes →

04 — Method

No model. Just arithmetic on pixels.

Every look is an editable set of colour and texture controls. See what each part changes, compare it with the original, and follow the linked notes to understand the choices behind the result.

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Tone curve and fade

Contrast shapes the tonal range; Fade lifts the darkest display values and brings the brightest ones down. This creates a faded finish. It is a creative treatment, rather than a measurement of how a particular film stock renders.

What Fade changes, and when to reduce it →
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Split toning

Separate tints affect shadows, midtones and highlights through soft-light blends. Cooler shadows and warmer highlights can separate a subject from its surroundings; the balance depends on the colours already in the photograph.

Build separation without overpowering skin →
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Halation and diffusion

Bright areas are isolated and blurred. Halation adds a tinted version back; Diffusion blends in an untinted glow. These are adjustable digital effects, not an exact simulation of a film emulsion or a physical lens filter.

How the highlight glow is built →
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Grain that survives export

Grain size is defined across the frame, with more weight in the midtones. Small previews limit fine grain to avoid flicker, so they cannot show every detail of a full-size export. Save a JPEG and inspect its texture at 100% before deciding how much grain to keep.

What a small preview can and cannot show →
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The same grade, frame by frame

The same five-pass renderer grades each video frame independently. Grain changes twelve times a second by default, with 24 Hz and fixed options too. Watch several moments of a clip: a glow that suits one bright frame can overwhelm another, and moving grain can increase the saved file size. Video export uses WebCodecs. Audio is retained when supported by the output format, but may be re-encoded.

Check playback, output size and video limits →