Nodaro DocsColor / Look
Pick one of 41 color grades, such as Teal & Orange, Kodak Portra or Bleach Bypass, and Nodaro adds that grade to the prompt of your image and video nodes.
The Color / Look picker sets the color grade of an image or a video: its palette and the way its colors are treated. You choose a look from its catalog, such as Teal & Orange, Kodak Portra, Bleach Bypass or iPhone HDR. Nodaro adds tested wording for that grade to the prompt of every node you connect it to. The picker never calls a model, so it costs no credits.
When to use it
- Give an image the look of a film stock, such as Kodak Portra, Kodachrome 64 or Cinestill 800T.
- Match the colors of a social platform: Instagram Warm, TikTok Saturated, iPhone HDR or Polaroid Faded.
- Keep the same grade on every shot of a sequence: connect one picker to all its image and video nodes.
- Support an emotion with color, for example a Cool grade for a lonely scene or a Warm grade for a cozy one.
How to use it
Add the picker
Open the node picker and choose Creative Controls › Light & Look › Color / Look.
Choose a look
Click the node and choose a look from the grid. The looks are grouped into Palette, Film Emulation and Social Preset.
Connect it
Drag from the picker's output to the Look input of a Generate Image or Generate Video node. You can also connect it to a Text or Prompt node to use the wording in a longer text.
Run the image or video node
The grade's wording is added to the end of the prompt when the connected node runs.
Settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Color / Look | The grade to add. The default is Warm. |
| Custom text (before) | Your own words, added before the grade's wording, for example heavy grain. |
| Custom text (after) | Your own words, added after the grade's wording, for example with film burn at the edges. |
| Prompt hint | Full (default) adds a longer description of the grade. Compact adds only the short term. See Full or Compact. |
To see the exact words the picker will add, switch the node to the Prompt or Both display mode. The settings panel shows the same text under Will inject into prompt.
Every color look
Filter by group or search by name. The words under each name are the term the picker adds in Compact mode.
Palette · 13 options
Warmwarm color grade
Coolcool color grade
Teal & Orangeteal and orange grade
Split Toning
Selective Color
Faded Mattefaded matte grade
Log Flatflat ungraded log footage
Desaturateddesaturated color grade
Monochrome B&Wblack and white
Sepiasepia tone
Pastelpastel color palette
High Contrasthigh contrast color grade
Vibrantvibrant saturated color palette
Film Emulation · 20 options
Kodak Portra
Kodak Ektar
Kodak Vision3
Fuji Pro 400H
Cinestill 800T
Bleach Bypass
Technicolor 3-stripthree-strip technicolor
Two-Strip Technicolor
Eastman Color
Hand-Tintedhand-tinted black-and-white photograph
Agfa / ORWOorwo film stock
Day-for-Nightday-for-night grade
Cross-Processedcross-processed film look
Kodachrome 64
Ektachrome 100
Kodak Tri-X 400 (B&W)kodak tri-x 400 black-and-white film
Aerochrome / Color Infraredaerochrome color infrared film
Fuji Instax / Instant Filmfuji instax instant film
Cinestill 50D
Expired Film / Light-struckexpired light-struck film
Social Preset · 8 options
Instagram Warmwarm instagram filter
TikTok Saturatedsaturated tiktok look
YouTube Vlog Flatflat youtube vlog grade
iPhone HDR
Y2K Saturatedsaturated y2k digital color
MTV 90s VHS90s mtv vhs look
Polaroid Fadedfaded polaroid look
Lifestyle Warm Magazinewarm lifestyle magazine grade
On Nodaro Cloud, each tile shows the same base image with that grade. A switch beside the picker's heading changes the tiles to drawn illustrations. Self-hosted installs show the illustrations only.
Tips
- Grade and light together. Color / Look works best with Lighting: Golden Hour light with a Warm grade, or Blue Hour light with a Cool grade.
- Use a film stock for a period feel. Kodachrome 64, Technicolor 3-strip or Expired Film / Light-struck give an image an older look.
- Pair color with the air. A warm or cool grade with Atmosphere reinforces the mood, for example a Cool grade with Fog.
- Grade a whole story. In a story workflow, connect one Color / Look picker to every scene so the film has one grade.
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