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Acid Print Look
This named look imitates chemically or environmentally damaged color print, with unstable dyes and distressed boundaries rather than a cheerful rainbow grade.
Selected recipe
Acid
This is the default recipe for the Acid-Damaged Print Look family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Animate print-layer dye distress and edge damage while preserving the underlying person and scene geometry.
Acid: This named look imitates chemically or environmentally damaged color print, with unstable dyes and distressed boundaries rather than a cheerful rainbow grade. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reach for Acid when you need this effect: This named look imitates chemically or environmentally damaged color print, with unstable dyes and distressed boundaries rather than a cheerful rainbow grade.
- How it works
- Animate print-layer dye distress and edge damage while preserving the underlying person and scene geometry.
- Common mistakes
- If the result does not follow this rule, it is not this technique: Animate print-layer dye distress and edge damage while preserving the underlying person and scene geometry. Do not change multiple variables at once so the effect becomes unreadable.
How to read this page
Acid Print Look is one technique in Viral Looks. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A 1970s road-movie shot seen on a damaged film print: in a mountain cable-car booth, a young hitchhiker in a mustard corduroy jacket folds a yellow road map as rain streaks the window.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Acid is a shot card
The full recipe for Acid is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
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Fallen AngelA damaged sacred-light portrait suggests fallen wings through fabric or shadow, without requiring literal feathers.
More in Viral Looks
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Cross processing
Wikipedia · Web
Cross processing develops film in the wrong chemistry, giving shifted, unstable colours.
- Wikipedia: Light leak
Wikipedia · Web
A light leak exposes film to stray light, producing localised colour blooms.
- Wikipedia: Psychedelic art
Wikipedia · Web
Psychedelic art uses saturated colours, distortion and repeated forms associated with altered perception.
Images & stills
- Film accidentally souped in a river
@showupanywayy · 2022-02-07 · X
Film accidentally "souped" in a river: chemical damage creates colour blotches and edge burns.
- A first attempt at film souping
@alexrozanski · 2021-01-08 · X
"My first shot at film souping": colour shifts and dye damage from soaking film.
- What film souping is
@tomafotograaf · 2023-07-03 · X
Film souping alters the film's chemistry by soaking it, giving unpredictable colour damage.