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Make a feeling tangible.

Explore tonal relationships and photographic approaches. Build a considered visual direction for a grade or a shoot.

14 day trial for Solo and Team plans. Cancel any time.

The problem every colourist knows.

A grade is a feeling described in numbers, and the fastest way to agree on it is with pictures. Colourists and photographers keep tonal references for years — skin under sodium light, a particular green, a print stock — and need them in the room when the director says “warmer, but not like that”.

cine.gallery lets you search your whole archive by colour and mood, group frames into a coherent palette, and share the exact references a grade is chasing.

What goes in it.

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

  • teal shadows, warm skin
  • bleach bypass, desaturated
  • golden hour, low contrast
  • 01Look references and stills from films
  • 02Print and stock references
  • 03Skin tone studies
  • 04Before-and-after grades
  • 05LUT test frames
  • 06Director's notes as frames

How the work flows.

  1. 01

    Gather tonal and photographic references

    Gather tonal and photographic references into one library.

  2. 02

    Group images into a coherent palette

    Group them into a palette per project or per scene.

  3. 03

    Capture the intent behind each choice

    Share the palette with the director before the session, not during it.

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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 shadows, warm skin”
  • “bleach bypass, desaturated”
  • “golden hour, low contrast”
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
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Frequently asked questions.

It is built for anyone who works from visual references — film, photography, brand and design. Explore tonal relationships and photographic approaches. Build a considered visual direction for a grade or a shoot.

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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Make a feeling tangible.

Bring the references you already have and find them again by what is in the picture. Gather tonal and photographic references.

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