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Arctic Punch

Arctic Punch is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Ice cyan and white blown out by a fuchsia punch.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

Try Arctic Punch freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
The eye-in-triangle illustration in teal-blue lines over ice cyan with hot pink splashes
Arctic Punch, default settings

What Arctic Punch does

After Sherbet Static, the lightest ramp in the band: glacier blue shadows, ice cyan mids and a snow-white plateau over the upper mids. Fuchsia punches in only where red outweighs blue, so skin, reds and warm light splash hot pink across an otherwise frozen frame. Snow widens the white plateau, Punch sets how hard the fuchsia hits.

Using Arctic Punch

Where it works
Winter drops, cold pop covers and footage under warm stage light, where the pink should land on performers and lamps. Colder and brighter than Neon Safari, with a far hotter fuchsia than its flamingo.
With the music
Nothing reacts by itself. B7 snare on Punch splashes fuchsia over the warm areas on each snare, and B9 air on Snow whitens the mids with the cymbals.
Starting point
Ice at centre, Snow a quarter, Punch three-quarters, then lower Snow if detail disappears into white.

Controls

Ice
Ice cyan floor into snow white.
Snow
Snow plateau across the midtones.
Punch
Fuchsia punch on warm pixels.

Pairs well with Arctic Punch