color match, from several stills

color match copies the look of a reference onto your photo. from one picture it couldn't fully tell the grade from the scene: a sunset is orange whether or not anyone graded it, so a desert reference made everything orange. two changes fix most of that.

• –several stills: drop up to six stills of one look at once, or add them one by one. what they share is the grade. three to six from different scenes of the same film work best: a day exterior, an interior, a close-up.
• –your photo keeps its own colour: the match works out what the reference does beyond a typical ungraded photo and adds that on top, instead of copying the reference's colours outright. a black and white or sepia look still takes the colour out.
• –built-in looks, measured properly: each of the twelve looks under or match a look is now measured across 63 photos graded in it, so picking one matches the grade itself rather than one picture.
• –how much better: on a test set of photos with known true results, the error fell by about a third for the built-in looks and by a sixth with five stills, and the match made fewer photos worse than leaving them alone.

it's in the editor with pro, and free on the colour match tool, where saving the match as a .cube is pro.