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Cyanotype Pop

Cyanotype Pop is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Blueprint blue into pool cyan, ivory paper and coral lift.

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.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines — Source

The eye-in-triangle illustration in blueprint blue and pool cyan with small peach-coral flecks — Cyanotype Pop, default settings

What Cyanotype Pop does

Deep blueprint blue in the shadows opens into bright pool cyan, then an ivory paper tone on the highlights. Coral only appears where a pixel is strongly red over blue, so reds and the warmest skin pick up a peach-coral lift while everything else stays blue. Blue spreads cyan down through the darks, and Ivory widens the paper band.

Using Cyanotype Pop

Where it works: Architectural shots, swimming-pool summer content and diagram-like logo reveals. Punchier and more saturated than Lunar Bloom, and the coral lift keeps faces from going corpse blue.
With the music: The grade has no built-in reaction. Send B8 hats to Coral for peach flickers on warm areas with each hat, or trigger an Envelope from the beat on Ivory so highlights flash to paper white.
Starting point: Blue at centre, Ivory a quarter, Coral three-quarters, then lower Ivory if the highlights lose their detail.

Controls

Blue: Blueprint blue into cyan mids.
Ivory: Ivory paper on highlights.
Coral: Coral warmth lift from red bias.

Pairs well with Cyanotype Pop