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Give the idea a visual language.

Bring palettes, textures and compositions together. Shape a treatment with a clear point of view.

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The problem every art director knows.

Art direction is the discipline of saying no to almost everything. A treatment starts as hundreds of images and ends as twenty that agree with each other, and the work in between is comparing palettes, textures and compositions side by side until the direction is obvious.

cine.gallery gives that editing process a surface. Pull everything into the library, search it by colour and mood, cut it down in a gallery, and present the result as a page rather than a PDF.

What goes in it.

Whatever you work from. These are the references kept here most often for art direction, and the kind of thing people type to find them again.

  • teal and ochre, overcast
  • grain, flash, candid
  • symmetry, pastel interior
  • 01Palette and texture references
  • 02Typography and graphic proofs
  • 03Campaign and editorial photography
  • 04Fabric and surface samples
  • 05Previous treatments
  • 06Client feedback frames

How the work flows.

  1. 01

    Explore a mood and its visual vocabulary

    Gather widely: upload everything that might belong.

  2. 02

    Organize references by creative direction

    Search by palette and mood to find what agrees; cut the rest.

  3. 03

    Develop the treatment in The Studio

    Present the direction as a showcase or presentation, and keep every version you showed.

The cine.gallery search page showing a grid of sunset photographs ranked as visual matches for the word sunset

The tools behind it.

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One private library

Everything you work from — at full resolution, with the originals kept — in one place instead of five. Drop folders in; duplicates are caught before they upload.

The library
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Search that reads the picture

Describe the frame you remember and your own references come back, ranked by how well they match. No tagging first.

  • “teal and ochre, overcast”
  • “grain, flash, candid”
  • “symmetry, pastel interior”
Search
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Galleries you can send

Arrange references in the order you mean them and share them as a link, a full-screen presentation or a published page — one address, always current.

Galleries
THE SOLO PLAN

For individuals and independent creatives.

  • Private asset library
  • Unlimited galleries
  • Share galleries
  • Embed galleries
  • Publish galleries
  • 100 GB of storage
  • Up to 10,000 assets
  • Original-resolution downloads
$24CAD / month
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Frequently asked questions.

It is built for anyone who works from visual references — film, photography, brand and design. Bring palettes, textures and compositions together. Shape a treatment with a clear point of view.

No. Uploads are analysed for search as they land, so describing what is in the picture works from the start. Suggested tags are there to confirm or reject when you want sharper results.

Yes. A gallery shared by link or published opens in any browser. Guest uploads let collaborators add files to a shared gallery with just a name and an email.

On your own, Solo: a private library of 2,000 uploads, ten galleries, sharing and original downloads. When a department needs one shared library, move to Team.

Other questions? Our team typically responds to all support inquiries within 24-48 hours.

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Give the idea a visual language.

Bring the references you already have and find them again by what is in the picture. Explore a mood and its visual vocabulary.

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