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Velvet Chrome

Velvet Chrome is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Dusty mauve into rosewood, champagne and platinum.

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 plum-brown lines over dusty champagne, rose and grey-green bands — Velvet Chrome, default settings

What Velvet Chrome does

Dusty mauve shadows warm into rosewood mids, then champagne and a cool platinum white across the highlights, and a gamma curve lifts the whole result. Silver drives both the champagne and platinum stops, so it's the one knob for how metallic the top end looks. Polish sets that gamma lift, strongest at hard left and densest at hard right.

Using Velvet Chrome

Where it works: Fashion-style portraits, luxe DJ promo shots and editorial covers. Skin sits in rosewood and champagne, which flatters faces, and it runs warmer and more metallic than Ghost Orchid.
With the music: Nothing in it reacts to audio or time. B6 upper mids on Silver lets vocals and leads bring the platinum up, and a bar-synced LFO on Wine rolls rosewood in and out of the shadows.
Starting point: Wine at centre, Silver three-quarters, Polish a quarter, then raise Polish if the frame looks washed out.

Controls

Wine: Rosewood spread out of the mauve base.
Silver: Champagne and platinum roll-in.
Polish: Gamma lift over the whole grade. Left lifts it most, right leaves it densest.

Pairs well with Velvet Chrome