Use a look

A look is a colour grade or finish: warmer light, film grain, black and white, a painting. Shotz has one set of looks, and you'll find the same ones in Create, the editor and Studio. They're free on every plan.

See them all

Choose Skills in the sidebar, then Looks, or search for a look in ⌘K. Each look shows on a sample photo. Choose one to see it big, with the original under a line you can drag. Person, Place and Product switch the sample. Use in Create puts the look on the Agent's card.

The looks come in four groups:

• Classic: Golden, Vivid, Cool, Faded, Mono and Noir.
• Film: Film, Portra, Retro, Dusk and Dreamy, most with grain.
• Art: Painterly, Pop art and Sketch.
• Wild: Pixel, Glitch, Mirror, Kaleido and Negative.

Make a shot in a look

On the Agent's card, choose +. Under Look, choose one. It shows as a pill above your words, and the takes are made in it from the start. Choose × on the pill, or None, to take it off. A look doesn't change what a take costs. If you also use a brand, the look sets the grade and the brand's own grade steps aside for that shot. Voice, music and talking avatars have no look.

You can also ask the Agent: "make it feel like film" or "in Noir".

Put a look on a clip or a picture

• In the editor: pick clips on the timeline, choose Looks and pick a look. See Looks and transitions.
• In Studio: open a picture and choose Looks. See Studio.

In the editor and Studio a look sits on top of your file, so you can change it, turn it down or take it off any time. It's burned into what you export.

Don't do both to the same shot: a take made in a look already has it, so putting the same look on it in the editor makes it twice as strong.