AI Grade

AI Grade Pro turns a description into a grade. Type what you want, and it returns three different takes on your image to choose from. A free account gets one to try (see Trying it on a free account).

Generating looks

1. Load your image.
2. Open AI Grade from the rail.
3. Type a description in Describe the look…, for example warm 70s film, faded blacks or cold thriller night exterior.
4. Click Generate 3 looks from image and wait a few seconds (usually 5–10). The looks are built for your picture: Luttie measures it (its brightness, contrast and colour balance) and the AI works from those numbers as well as your words.

Each result shows a name, a short description and its main moves, such as warmth or contrast.

Using a result

• Click a look to apply it. It sets the ordinary grading panels, so you can open Basic Correction, Color Wheels and the rest and adjust anything it did.
• Refine this look: type a change like less contrast, warmer shadows to get a revised version.
• Download as .cube: save that look straight away as a LUT.

Log footage

Log footage (S-Log3, C-Log, Apple Log, D-Log and the rest) looks flat and grey straight out of the camera, so AI Grade converts it to normal colour first and grades the converted picture:

• Already converting it? If a camera LUT, a log film Source or a Color Space Transform from log is on, AI Grade keeps it. The looks go on top, and applying one doesn't remove it.
• Name it in the description, for example S-Log3, warm teal and orange. Each look then starts with a CST from that log to Rec.709, shown as CST on the look.
• Otherwise, when a clip looks like log, AI Grade asks which camera shot it before it generates. Pick the camera's log, or choose It's not log to grade it as it is. It asks once per clip.

DJI D-Log M has no CST yet. Pick D-Log M under DJI in the Camera panel first, then ask AI Grade.

Good descriptions

Name a mood, a film or era, a light, or a colour relationship:

• golden hour warmth with cool shadows
• muted Scandinavian interior, soft contrast
• bleach bypass, gritty, desaturated

AI Grade sets the same controls you can set by hand, so it's a starting point, not a black box.

Trying it on a free account

A free account can run AI Grade once. You get the same three looks a Pro account would, and you can apply each of them and keep adjusting the panels afterwards.

What the free try doesn't include:

• A second request. It is one per account and it doesn't reset. Refining a look and Grade Chat need Pro.
• Export. While one of the AI looks is on your image, exporting the image asks for Pro, and LUT export is Pro as always. Reset the grade and the free watermarked export works as before.

If the request fails, the try isn't used up.

Limits

AI requests are counted per account: 50 a month on Pro, 150 on Lifetime, on a rolling 30-day cycle. Grade Chat draws from the same allowance. The meter in the left sidebar shows what's left, and you can buy a top-up that doesn't expire if you run out.

Your photo is never sent. Your browser measures it (how its tones are spread, its colour balance in the shadows, midtones and highlights, its saturation, and the colour of any skin) and only those numbers go to the AI model with your description. The photo stays on your device.