Video · ColorNO.046 / 166

Watch: Every color gets pulled toward gray: saturation lowered, contrast softened. The image turns quiet and restrained, like an art-house film.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Video · Color

Muted Grade低饱和

Colors drained overall and blacks slightly lifted, looking restrained and old.

Category: Color
Group: Basics
Medium: Video
Library: 046 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Realism, documentary, memories, heavy subjects.

Prompt template

desaturated grade, colors muted, blacks slightly lifted and grayish, soft contrast, no vivid color patches.

Sample prompt · generate a video directly

The technique comes first, followed by the scene, action, performance and duration. Paste it straight into a video model and swap in your own characters and plot.

Desaturated grade, colors faded overall, blacks lifted slightly toward gray, soft contrast, no bright patches of color. A small northern town in winter: an old man waits at an empty bus stop, his breath fading in the cold air, as an old bus slowly approaches in the distance. 6 seconds, quiet and restrained; no sudden patches of saturated color.

Common pitfalls

Drained until there's no color and the image feels dull.
Blacks lifted too far, like a layer of dust over everything.

Parameter tips

Keep one small area of saturation as a visual anchor.