ICC
Ground truth
Profiles model how sensors render color, before sliders. ICC is the translator; styles sit on something truthful.
Every graded pack ships with the .costyle file and the proprietary ICC base profile. Competitors often skip ICC, which is exactly why grading breaks across camera bodies when you swap systems.
Profiles model how sensors render color, before sliders. ICC is the translator; styles sit on something truthful.
Designed on top of the ICC baseline so warm / cool moods stay calibrated, not mashed.
Undo, iterate, bracket. You keep the fidelity of the ICC path while iterating creative decisions.
It maps input values to output values, a blind remap. If your input RAW is not normalized first, a LUT applied on top of varying sensor profiles produces different results on every camera body. That is why photographers switch cameras and suddenly their signature look falls apart.
LUT-only packs ignore the physics of the sensor. The look is baked against one reference; everything else is a approximation.
ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles characterize the actual color response of a camera sensor at the RAW level, before any creative layer. Capture One reads ICC to normalize RAW data into a scene-referred state first.
Every graded look is authored on top of an ICC foundation. That means the same look applied to a Sony A7IV and a Fujifilm X-T5 produces consistent cinematic output, not a sensor lottery.
gradedlooks offers curated Signature looks. For a fully bespoke ICC profile and style pack tailored to your specific camera, workflow, and aesthetic, our partners at coloralchemy.eu craft custom looks built around your unique needs.