2026-04-12

Our colour-grading pipeline (and why it's deliberately boring)

A wallpaper looks at you for a long time. So we grade conservatively.

The pipeline for every shot in every pack:

  1. Raw → linear, no auto exposure, no auto white balance.
  2. Per-channel curve: a soft S, never more than 3% on the highlights.
  3. One creative LUT, picked from a set of three we made ourselves (Lisbon, Kyoto, Carpathian — those are just the names, not the locations they fit).
  4. Grain. A small amount of luminance grain, because perfectly clean files look fake on OLED.

We don't denoise with neural filters, we don't sharpen, we don't AI-upscale. The 8K files are 8K because the camera's sensor is 8K, not because we ran the 4K through an upscaler.

That sounds fussy, but it's why the packs hold up. A heavily-AI-processed wallpaper looks great in a thumbnail and tired after a week of staring. The bone-simple pipeline above gives you a file that doesn't fight back.


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