High Contrast

Punch

Maximum impact. Boosted contrast and saturation for graphic …

Graphic

High contrast with muted colour. Stark and editorial.…

Clarity

Slightly more of everything. Sharper, crisper, more defined.…

Vivid

Apple's vivid setting made physical. Everything pushed to it…

Hyper

Past vivid. Saturated beyond what occurs in nature.…

Ultra Contrast

Contrast at maximum. Blacks at 0, whites at 255, nothing in …

Hard Light

Midday sun and no diffusion. Hard shadows and clipped highli…

Sharp

Everything in precise focus. Micro-contrast and edge definit…

Crisp

Autumn air and first frost. Precise and slightly cold.…

Pop

Andy Warhol's approach to colour. Everything flat, saturated…

Neon Contrast

Neon signs with hard contrast. Saturated synthetic light.…

Black Point

Lifted black point for maximum shadow density.…

White Point

Clipped white point. Highlights surrender to pure white.…

S-Curve

Classic S-curve contrast. Lifted shadows, enhanced midtones,…

Steep S-Curve

S-curve pushed past tasteful. Dramatic and slightly aggressi…

Luminosity Boost

Luminosity channel pushed up. Brighter and richer without bu…

Deep Blacks

Black point pulled low. Rich, dense shadow detail replaced b…

Lifted Contrast

Contrast lifted with shadows retained. More definition, no d…

Micro Contrast

Local contrast in fine detail. Texture made visible without …

Drama

Instagram drama. High contrast and boosted saturation withou…

Intense

Refuses to be quiet. High contrast and demanding saturation.…

Overdone

Too much. But intentionally too much. The limit as an aesthe…

Sport

Stadium colours and action photography processing.…

Magazine

Commercial magazine saturation and contrast. Commercial perf…

Advertising

The colour science of wanting to sell something.…

Billboard

Designed to be seen from 300 metres at 60mph. Extreme in all…

Packaging

Product packaging colour theory. Every colour fighting for s…

Cover

Book or magazine cover processing. Bold enough to stand alon…

Logo

Logo-adjacent contrast. Simplified and graphically reduced.…

Poster

Screen-printed poster. Limited tones, strong contrast, graph…

Woodblock

Woodblock print contrast. Thick lines and committed shadows.…

Screen Print

Three-colour screen print. Limited tones, maximum impact.…

Linocut

Lino reduction print. Nearly two-tone, every line deliberate…

Stencil

Spray paint through card. Rough edges and high contrast.…

Street Art

Wall mural colour science. Vivid, large-scale, impossible to…

Graffiti

Tag and throw-up saturation. Aerosol colours, maximum presen…

Banksy

Almost monochrome stencil. Grey-black with a single pop of i…

Bold B&W

High contrast black and white. No grey compromises.…

Ultra B&W

Beyond bold. Two tones: black and white. Nothing else.…

Duotone Warm

Two-tone warm version. Brown and white, no grey.…

Duotone Cool

Two-tone cool version. Blue and white with crushed midtones.…

Duotone Pink

Pink and white duotone. Fashion-forward and graphic.…

Duotone Green

Military or eco duotone. Green and dark, graphically reduced…

Duotone Purple

Purple duotone with crushed shadows. Regal and graphic.…

High Sat Contrast

Both saturation and contrast at their maximum together.…

Graphic B&W

Designed rather than photographed. High contrast in greyscal…

Portrait Contrast

Contrast push for portraiture. Definition without aggression…

Landscape Contrast

Landscape contrast push. Skies darker, greens richer.…

Architecture

Building photography processing. Hard lines, strong contrast…

Product

E-commerce product photography. Clean, accurate, commerciall…

Food

Food styling colour push. Everything looking exactly as deli…

Fashion

High fashion editorial. Slightly desaturated with precise co…

Sports

Sports photography push. Sharp, bold, and demanding attentio…

Wildlife

Nature and wildlife processing. Rich colour and sharp contra…

Street

Street photography push. Gritty and honest and well-defined.…

Wedding Contrast

Wedding day colour. Lifted brightness with gentle contrast.…

Travel

Travel photography vibrance. Every destination more colourfu…

Aerial

Aerial photography from a drone. Clear, vivid, and oriented …

Studio

Studio flash and white background. Controlled, precise, comm…

Backlit Contrast

Contrast pull for backlit subjects. Details recovered agains…

RAW Conversion

Clean RAW conversion. Slight contrast push with accurate col…

Output Sharpened

Output sharpening for print or screen. The final push.…

Vivid Warm

Vivid in the warm direction. Every colour pushing toward amb…

Vivid Cool

Vivid in the cool direction. Blues and greens amplified.…

Social Media

The colour science of wanting likes. High contrast, high sat…

Smartphone

Modern computational photography defaults. Oversaturated and…

HDR

High Dynamic Range processing. Every zone of the image repre…

Tone Mapped

HDR tone mapping at maximum quality. Full scene luminance ra…

Clarity Boost

Clarity slider from Lightroom/Capture One. Midtone contrast …

Dehaze

Haze removed. Distance contrast restored. Mountains visible …

Vibrance

Selective saturation. Neutral tones stay neutral, vivid colo…

Saturation Push

Global saturation pushed up. Every colour participating more…

Contrast Only

Contrast alone. No saturation change, just tonal separation.…

Dynamic Range

Full dynamic range represented. Shadows open, highlights hel…

Latitude

Film's tonal latitude digitally interpreted. Forgiving and f…

Print Contrast

Optimised for printing. Slight shadow boost to compensate fo…

Screen Contrast

Optimised for screens. Slightly brighter to compensate for v…

Projection

Corrected for projection. Pushed to survive a bright auditor…

Offset Press

Pre-press preparation. Warm up and contrast push for offset …

Inkjet

Home inkjet output correction. Slight boost to compensate fo…

Calibrated

Screen-calibrated output. As close to absolute accuracy as t…

Bold Landscape

Landscape pushed hard. Dark skies, vivid greens, no subtlety…

Vivid Portrait

Portrait with contrast and saturation both lifted. Defined a…

Editorial Punch

Magazine editorial pushing tones to their most decisive.…

Motion

Sports and action processing. Everything sharper, every colo…

Raw Power

Nothing held back. Contrast and saturation at their loudest.…

Clean Punch

Contrast without aggression. Punchy but not violent.…

Warm Punch

Contrast push in a warm direction. Golden and bold.…

Cool Punch

Contrast push in a cool direction. Blue-leaning and precise.…

Warm Drama

Drama with warm shadows. Amber blacks and lifted colour.…

Cool Drama

Drama with cool shadows. Blue blacks and suppressed warmth.…

Punchy Fade

Contrast pushed while saturation is pulled. Graphic and edit…

Bold Minimal

High contrast and low saturation. Graphic minimalism.…

Filmic Contrast

Film-emulating contrast. S-curve with a slight warm bias.…

Digital Native

Born digital, raised digital. Clean, vivid, native to the sc…

Instagram Default

The filter behind every 2015 food photograph. Still works.…

TikTok Bright

Computational phone photography defaults. Engineered to arre…

YouTube Thumb

Thumbnail colour science. Maximum click-through optimisation…

Print Ready

Pre-press ready. Slight darkening to compensate for paper do…

Chrome Vivid

Chrome filter and vivid setting combined. Maximum computatio…

Bold Street

Street photography pushed hard. Gritty, contrasty, decisive.…

Bold Nature

Nature photography at full vibrancy. As saturated as the mom…

Block B&W

Block high contrast. Two tones, not three. Graphic and delib…

Punchy B&W

Black and white with punch. Rich blacks, brilliant whites, c…

Editorial B&W

Magazine editorial B&W. Confident contrast for print reprodu…

Documentary B&W

Documentary black and white. Truth over beauty, always.…

Vivid Landscape

Nature at maximum saturation. Every colour demanding recogni…

Sharp Portrait

Portrait with every edge defined. Clear, intentional, presen…

Maximum Vivid

Past all reasonable vivid settings. Saturated beyond natural…

Graphic Colour

Illustration-level colour and contrast. Flat and designed.…

Cinema Contrast

Graded for cinema projection. Dark, tight, made for a large …

Sharp Clean

Sharpness without drama. Just more definition in every detai…