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Muted effect

Vapor Noir

Vapor Noir is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Steel blue lows lit by cyan and magenta vapor.

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 steel-blue lines over cyan and hot pink bands — Vapor Noir, default settings

What Vapor Noir does

Steel-blue shadows climb into cyan, flip to hot magenta across the upper mids, and finish in a pale lilac haze. It's a straight brightness ramp with no hue keying, so the colour a pixel gets depends only on how light it is. Noir spreads cyan down over the steel floor, Magenta pulls the pink lower, Haze whitens the top.

Using Vapor Noir

Where it works: Vaporwave and synthwave covers, neon-city B-roll and late-night Reels. The most saturated grade in the Muted band, harder than Ghost Orchid, though the lifted steel floor keeps it out of true black.
With the music: No audio reaction is built in. B3 bass body on Magenta floods the mids pink on basslines, while an Envelope triggered by the audio on Haze flashes lilac on the loudest hits.
Starting point: Noir at centre, Magenta a quarter, Haze a quarter, then raise Magenta until pink covers the upper mids.

Controls

Noir: Steel blue floor into cyan.
Magenta: Magenta vapor mid band.
Haze: Lilac haze on the top end.

Pairs well with Vapor Noir