Color Looks & LUTs — style skill for color grading & LUTs

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Name a look, get prompt words plus an ffmpeg grade: LUT at partial strength, then moving grain.

What it does

Nine color cards (teal and orange, bleach bypass, day for night, black and white, print film, grain, halation, limited palette, faded film), each with prompt language for generation and a deterministic recipe for post. The recipe follows the common practice for AI clips — normalize, apply a print-style LUT at 50–80% through ffmpeg lut3d + blend, then add moving grain with noise — and runs as a varg ffmpeg step or locally. LUTs come only from clearly licensed sources: varg-baked originals (built from haldclutsrc + curves/colorbalance/eq), BSD-licensed ACES transforms, or link-only vendor pages; packs with unknown provenance are refused.

Use when

Not for

Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills

Models it drives: ffmpeg, seedance_2_5, kling_v3, veo_3_1, omni_flash_1_1

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-color-looks.mp4 — Before/after wipe of the skill's own post recipe, no model run. Footage: Tears of Steel 720p (CC BY 3.0, (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org, via the official Blender mirror download.blender.org/demo/movies/ToS), 00:29-00:37, cropped to 16:10. Right of the line: a varg-baked teal-and-orange .cube (haldclutsrc=level=8 -> selectivecolor -> colorbalance -> curves -> huesaturation -> Hald CLUT -> .cube) applied with lut3d at 80% through blend, then moving grain noise=alls=8:allf=t+u. Left: the untouched film. (credit: varg grade on Tears of Steel (CC BY 3.0, (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org), https://mango.blender.org/)

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