Adjust color mood, contrast, highlights, shadows, and temperature for videos or images with a clear text prompt.
Open the Create workstation
Open the creation workspace from a model or content page, then confirm the current model or content context before adding media.
Start with a non-sensitive test asset. This walkthrough used the Miranda community model, and its completed test result was marked Public.
Choose Edit video for an existing clip
In the Video section, select Edit video—not Text to video—when you want to restyle footage you already have.
Confirm that Original video appears, then use Select content or Upload video. A four-second presenter clip is enough for a low-risk first test.
Select Edit style and add a short source
Choose Edit style, then add existing content or upload a video. The reviewed interface accepted clips from 3 to 30 seconds.
Test a short representative segment first. Check text edges, skin continuity, product colors, and camera motion before using a longer source.
Describe the look and protect critical details
Specify temperature, contrast, saturation, highlight roll-off, and shadow detail. Then name what must not change: face, text, product hue, motion, timing, crop, and background.
Before generating, check the live duration, resolution, quality, credits per second, and total. In one reviewed four-second test, the displayed total was 960 credits. Costs vary by settings and may change.
Use Chat to edit for a still image
Open Edit image → Chat to edit, add a base image, and choose Keep original when the source dimensions must remain unchanged.
In the reviewed image test, Ultra 4K displayed a 50-credit cost. The prompt protected the face, clothing, background, composition, and brand-critical colors.
Generate once and monitor the job
Submit only after checking the source, prompt, settings, visibility context, and displayed cost. The job will appear in the Generation feed.
Wait for a finished card before repeating the request. The reviewed image completed in about one minute, but that single test is not a speed guarantee.
Review the result at 100%
Compare source and output for skin neutrality, product and logo colors, highlight clipping, shadow detail, text, crop, and—on video—flicker or continuity problems.
If the look is too strong, describe the exact fault in a second-pass prompt. Also verify the result’s visibility before using confidential or client-owned media.
Expert Prompts for AI Color Grading
TikTok product ad video
Prompt: Apply a warm-neutral commercial grade, moderate contrast, soft highlights, and neutral skin. Preserve label colors, text, motion, timing, and crop. Purpose: mobile product ad. Expected: cohesive short-form look.
Ecommerce product still
Prompt: Use clean daylight balance, restrained saturation, neutral whites, and visible shadow detail. Preserve the exact package hue, logo, label, and dimensions. Purpose: PDP variation. Expected: review-ready product scene.
LinkedIn creator portrait
Prompt: Apply a cool-neutral editorial grade with natural skin, gentle contrast, and soft highlight roll-off. Preserve the face, glasses, clothing, background, and crop. Purpose: professional profile asset. Expected: polished portrait without identity changes.
Prompt-guided look development
Describe temperature, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, and protected details in plain language.
Two practical editing routes
Use Edit style for a video, or Chat to edit for a campaign still, portrait, thumbnail, or product scene.
Live cost before generation
Review the current duration, resolution, quality, and total credits beside Generate; these values can change.
Consent and likeness
Use only media and identities you are authorized to edit. Obtain permission for private individuals, clients, employees, and identifiable likenesses; do not imply endorsement.
Commercial use and copyright
Rights depend on the source, prompt, logos, trademarks, music, product claims, current APOB terms, contracts, and applicable law. Do not treat generation as automatic legal clearance.
Disclosure and platform rules
Label synthetic or materially altered media when a platform, advertiser, client, or law requires it. Check current TikTok, Meta, YouTube, marketplace, and advertising policies before publishing.
Privacy and result visibility
Do not assume uploads or outputs are private. This walkthrough’s completed community-model result was marked Public; verify the current account, model context, visibility controls, and terms before using sensitive assets.
Color-space delivery references
Match the export to the destination instead of assuming every platform preserves the same color. YouTube recommends BT.709 for SDR uploads and publishes separate HDR color-space and metadata requirements. Review YouTube’s recommended upload encoding settings and HDR upload guidance.
Short-form video look tests
Try a warm, cool, low-saturation, or documentary treatment on a short representative clip before editing a full TikTok, Reel, or YouTube Short. Check skin, text, and continuity before reuse.
Ecommerce product scenes
Create campaign color variations while protecting the product hue, label, logo, packaging text, and dimensions. Compare results with an approved reference instead of memory.
Creator and AI influencer assets
Keep a recurring portrait or virtual creator visually consistent across thumbnails, feed posts, and campaign stills by reusing a controlled prompt and reviewing every output.
Accessible prompt controls
Creators can describe mood, temperature, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, and protected details without learning a node graph.
Video and image paths
The same page can guide users to Edit style for existing clips and Chat to edit for still images.
Cost shown before generation
The interface displays current settings and credits before a user submits the job, supporting short tests and budget checks.
Not a calibrated finishing suite
No verified RAW controls, scopes, color wheels, node graphs, LUT import, calibrated monitoring, or measurement-based shot matching are claimed.
Preservation needs inspection
Prompts can request neutral skin or protected product colors, but users must compare the output with an approved source or reference.
Cost and processing vary
Credits, quality options, duration limits, and completion time depend on the current mode, plan, source, account, and product version.
No Credit Card Required
Practical answers about modes, credits, limits, quality, privacy, safety, and professional-workflow boundaries.
Q1: What does AI color grading mean in APOB AI?
A: It means using a prompt to guide the color mood and visual treatment of an existing video or image. Describe temperature, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, skin treatment, and details to preserve. It is creative restyling, not a calibrated color-science pipeline.
Q2: Is APOB AI a traditional professional color-grading suite?
A: No. The tested workflow does not expose node graphs, scopes, color wheels, display calibration, or RAW controls. Use it for prompt-guided look development and visual variations, then use an appropriate finishing workflow when technical delivery standards matter.
Q3: Can APOB AI color-grade both videos and images?
A: Yes. The current app provides Edit video → Edit style for video restyling and Edit image → Chat to edit for image edits. Both paths were verified in the signed-in web app.
Q4: Which APOB mode should I use for a video color mood?
A: Start with Edit video → Edit style when the goal is a new color atmosphere while retaining source motion. Edit everything is broader and can be more appropriate when the change extends beyond color and style.
Q5: Can I use an existing video or image?
A: Yes. The tested interfaces offered Select content and an upload option. Upload only assets you are authorized to use, and check the current visibility context before using sensitive media.
Q6: What video duration does Edit style support?
A: The reviewed interface displayed “Use a video between 3 and 30 s.” Limits can be dynamic, so follow the range shown in your current interface. Source: https://help.apob.ai/en/articles/15699733-edit-style
Q7: How many credits does AI video color grading use?
A: The app shows a live cost before generation. One four-second test displayed 240 credits per second and 960 credits total. Cost can change with mode, plan, quality, resolution, duration, quantity, account, or product update. Source: https://help.apob.ai/en/articles/15699713-generating-credit-cost
Q8: Is AI color grading free in APOB AI?
A: APOB uses credits. Any free allocation, trial, or plan benefit depends on the current account and offer. Review the live cost instead of assuming unlimited free use or permanently free export.
Q9: Which quality and resolution options are available?
A: The video test displayed 720P plus Best, Ultra, and UltraS labels. The image test displayed Ultra 4K and UltraS 4K. Availability can vary by account or mode. Source: https://help.apob.ai/en/articles/15699720-quality-resolution-duration
Q10: Can I keep the original aspect ratio?
A: The tested Chat to edit path displayed Keep original. Some modes expose different ratios, so check the current mode. Source: https://help.apob.ai/en/articles/15699737-aspect-ratio-quantity
Q11: Will APOB preserve skin tones and product colors exactly?
A: Not exactly or automatically in every result. Specify neutral skin, approved product hues, label colors, and other protected details, then compare the output with the source or an approved reference.
Q12: Does APOB automatically match color across multiple shots?
A: Automatic shot matching was not verified. You can reuse a controlled prompt and inspect each result, but this page does not claim measurement-based matching or guaranteed cross-shot consistency.
Q13: Can APOB create or import LUTs?
A: LUT creation and LUT import were not verified in the tested app or official workflow documentation, so this page does not position APOB as a LUT tool.
Q14: How do I fix a result that is too orange, saturated, or dark?
A: Describe the fault directly: reduce warmth or saturation by a measured amount, keep whites neutral, restore natural skin, soften clipped highlights, and lift shadow detail. Repeat protected details in the second-pass prompt.
Q15: Can I use the result commercially?
A: A specific use depends on your rights in the source, prompt, logos, likenesses, music, product claims, current terms, platform rules, and applicable law. Do not assume unconditional ownership or legal clearance. Terms: https://public.apob.ai/tos/index.html
Q16: Are uploaded media and generated results private?
A: Do not assume so. This walkthrough’s completed community-model result was labelled Public. Check the current account, source context, publication controls, and Terms before uploading confidential, client-owned, or personally sensitive material. Terms: https://public.apob.ai/tos/index.html
