Video · ColorNO.044 / 166

Watch: Shadows and sky are pushed toward teal blue and skin toward orange: the complementary warm and cool make the person pop from the background. It's the most common grade in Hollywood commercial films.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Video · Color

Teal and Orange青橙

Skin pushed orange, shadows pushed teal: the most universal blockbuster palette.

Category: Color
Group: Basics
Medium: Video
Library: 044 / 166

Want to merge it with other techniques (shot size, lighting, style…) into one full prompt? Click “Add to combo”, then pick one from each of the other terms.

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

Action, commercials, when an image needs to look expensive right away.

Prompt template

teal and orange grade, skin kept warm and healthy, shadows and environment pushed toward cyan, low saturation in midtones, clean contrast.

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.

Teal and orange grade, skin kept a healthy warm orange, shadows and surroundings toward teal blue, midtones low in saturation. At a harbor dock at dusk, a man in a work jacket leans against a shipping container smoking, a crane arm turning slowly in the distance; he stubs out the cigarette, turns and walks toward the camera. 5 seconds; don't push the skin too red or yellow, and keep the teal off the skin.

Common pitfalls

Teal bleeds into the skin and faces turn blue.
Orange pushed to orange-red, like an old photo.

Parameter tips

Skin is always the exception; don't grade it along with everything else.