# Teal and orange

Light and look / Colour look / Named looks. Checked 2026-10-13.

Warm skin against cool shadows: the familiar blockbuster contrast.

- Use when: Action, travel, sport, energetic brand films.
- Phrase: warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-teal-orange
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/look/look-teal-orange.json

## Watch out

- Fine as a direction, tired as a preset. On deeper skin an aggressive orange push over-saturates and loses shadow detail. (practitioner; The Director Chair colour grading guide (Lift Gamma Gain thread))

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
Warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
Warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
Warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, the complementary pair kept subtle.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Red and cyan blockbuster: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-blockbuster
- Golden hour: https://directorchair.ai/time/golden-hour

## Source

Own synthesis in the Director Chair colour grading guide

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