Magic Bullet Looks
Film Tools
| Film Negative | Halation | Film Print | Renoiser | Print Bleach Bypass |
| 2-Strip Process | Telecine Net | Shoulder |
Film Negative emulates the look of various analog camera film stocks. To get the best results with Film Negative, we recommend pairing it with Film Print to complete the photochemical process.
- Film Stock: The Film Stock dropdown contains 22 film stock presets that were created by measuring color information shot on real negative stocks.
- Color Temperature: The Color Temperature slider adjusts the overall color temperature to warmer or cooler tones (left and right, respectively, on the color map). Positive/higher values warm the temperature of the image while negative/lower values cool the image.
- Tint: The Tint slider shifts all image colors between green and magenta (up and down, respectively, on the color map). Positive/higher values shift the tint of the image to magenta while negative/lower values shift the tint to green.
- Exposure: Exposure stretches or compresses the red, green, and blue channels. Exposure is good for setting the image’s overall brightness. Use exposure when you want to add brightness compensation after adjusting the other correction controls.
- Contrast: The Contrast slider helps define luminance detail. Positive/higher values add contrast, bringing out detail in your image, while negative/lower values remove contrast, flattening your image.
- Saturation: The Saturation slider raises or lowers the colorfulness, or intensity of color, in your footage. Lower values drain color from the image, making it closer to grayscale. Higher values add color intensity and cause your image's color to become bolder.
- Vintage/Modern: The Vintage/Modern slider adds stylistic control over your entire image. Positive/higher values add the look of modern color correction, where skin tones are pushed orange, and the background is pushed blue, similar to the effect of Mojo. Negative/lower values create a flatter vintage look with warmer shadow tones.
- Grain: The Grain slider controls the amount of grain generated on top of the image. Positive/higher values add more grain while negative/lower values reduce the amount of grain. To remove all grain added by Magic Bullet Film, reduce the grain setting to 0 percent.
- Strength: The Strength slider is a refinement control that sets the interaction between the original image and the look added by Film Negative. The value range is from 0 to 100 percent. The default setting is 100%, which means Film Negative is fully applied. Lower values reduce the effect of Film Negative. At 0%, Film Negative is effectively turned off.
Halation is a tool that emulates the film phenomenon of the same name. In film photography, light can bounce off the metal plate holding the film in place and/or the backing of the film itself, creating a blurry “halo” effect around highlight areas.
- Preset: Helps load and save presets.
- Amount: Controls the strength of the halation effect.
- Size: The range of halation, as a percentage of total image size.
- Anamorphic: Adds an anamorphic lens effect to the halation effect.
- Falloff: Expands or decreases the spread of halation around highlights.
- Highlights Only: Controls the halation area based on highlights.
- Radiate: Adjusts how much the halation effect radiates.
- Preview Highlights: Allows you to preview areas affected when adjusting Highlights Only.
- Color: Color controls the RGB weighting of the halation effect. Most color film stocks have the red layer at the bottom, so the scattered light most affects red, then green, and then some small amount of blue. Think of this control as adjusting the amount of halation per RGB channel.
- Emulsion Spread: Adjusts the size of the halation effect per RGB channel. As light scatters through color film layers, it spreads out. Typically, the red channel will get the brightest but least amount of halation, whereas the blue channel will get the dimmest but broadest light scattering.
Film Print emulates the look of the paper stocks onto which film negatives would have been printed for final delivery. For best results with Film Print, pair it with the Film Negative tool to complete the photochemical process.
- Film Stock: The Film Stock drop-down contains four print stock presets created by measuring color information derived from real print stocks.
- Color Temperature: The Color Temperature slider adjusts the overall color temperature to warmer or cooler tones (left and right, respectively, on the color map). Positive/higher values warm the temperature of the image while negative/lower values cool the image.
- Tint: The Tint slider shifts all image colors between green and magenta (up and down, respectively, on the color map). Positive/higher values shift the tint of the image to magenta while negative/lower values shift the image tint to green.
- Exposure: Exposure stretches or compresses the red, green and blue channels. Exposure is good for setting overall image brightness. Use Exposure when you want to add brightness compensation after adjusting the other correction controls.
- Contrast: The Contrast slider helps define luminance detail. Positive/higher values add contrast bringing out detail in your image while negative/lower values remove contrast, flattening your image.
- Saturation: The Saturation slider raises or lowers the colorfulness, or intensity of color, in your footage. Lower values drain color from the image, making it closer to grayscale. Higher values add color intensity and causes your image's color to become bolder.
- Skin Tone: The Skin Tone slider shifts the color of any skin tone. Higher values shift skin tones to pink and magenta while lower values shift skin tones to yellow and green.
- Vintage/Modern: The Vintage/Modern slider adds stylistic control over your entire image. Positive/higher values add the look of modern color correction, where skin tones are pushed orange and the background is pushed blue, similar to the effect in Mojo. Negative/lower values create a flatter, vintage look with warmer shadow tones.
- Grain: The Grain slider controls the amount of grain generated on top of the image. Positive/higher values add more grain while negative/lower values reduce grain. To remove all grain added by Film Print, reduce the grain setting to 0 percent.
- Strength: The Strength slider is a refinement control that sets the interaction between the original image and the look added by Film Print. The value range is from 0 to 100 percent. The default setting is 100%, which means Film Print is fully applied. Lower values reduce the effect of Film Print. At 0%, Film Print is effectively turned off.
Renoiser adds film-like noise or grain to add texture to your image.
- Sharpen: Sharpens your image before noise is applied to your image.
- Sharpen Edges Only: Performs sharpening only in image regions with a sharp contrast between light and dark color values.
- Grain Amount: This control sets the amount of grain applied to the image. This control has a wide range from 0% to 200 percent.
- Size: Controls the size of the grain generated by Grain Amount.
- Texture: Controls how much your original image influences grain placement, rebuilding your image out of grain.
- Log Grain: Controls the color space in which grain is generated.
- Monochrome: Sets whether grain is colorized or black and white.
- Red Amount: Sets the amount of grain in the red channel.
- Green Amount: Sets the amount of grain in the green channel.
- Blue Amount: Sets the amount of grain in the blue channel.
- Red Size: Sets the size of grain in the red channel.
- Green Size: Sets the size of grain in the green channel.
- Blue Size: Sets the size of grain in the blue channel.
- Highlight: Sets how much grain appears in image highlights.
- Midtone: Sets how much grain appears in image midtones.
- Shadow: Sets how much grain appears in image shadows.
Print Bleach Bypass emulates the look of a skip-bleach process on print film instead of the negative (Negative Bleach Bypass tool).
- Silver Retention: Mimics the effect of a silver retention process in creating prints. The higher this value, the more silver is retained and the more desaturated and contrasty the image looks.
- Exposure Compensation: Corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure.
2-Strip Process emulates the old technical two-strip printing process. In this, images were printed to black and white with a red and green filter, then cemented together for projection. This creates distinct look that mostly preserves flesh tones, but shifts green colors toward a teal blue and makes red colors more prominent.
- Green Sensitivity: Controls the relative amount of red or cyan in the image.
- Exposure Compensation: Corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure.
Telecine Net emulates a silk effect in a telecine to soften the blacks in an image.
- Size: Sets the relative scale of the net.
- Strength: Sets the extent to which the effect is applied.
- Exposure Compensation: Corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure.
Shoulder pushes the image's brightest values into the 0 to 1.0 brightness range, yielding a natural result for images with over-bright values. The controls define which values will be altered. Any luminance values in the red, green, and blue channels which fall between the rolloff start and the brightest value will be remapped to a normal range.
- Rolloff Start: A value between 0 and 1 establishing the luminance value at which the rolloff is based.
- Brightest Value: The ceiling from which highlights are rolled off.
- Strength: The extent to which the Shoulder effect is applied.