VFX Atlas
M 065 / 18303 Color & Quantizationalgorithm output

Color Negative

color, tone & quantization

Typeface · Righteous

Real-world algorithm demonstration, applied to a NASA portrait.
Real-world algorithm demonstration, applied to a NASA portrait.Image: NASA / Eileen Collins · scikit-image (public domain)View source ↗

Prompt

Apply a Color Negative effect, reversing every red, green, and blue channel so highlights become dark, shadows become light, and colors turn into their exact complements. Render uncanny cyan, magenta, and yellow relationships while retaining sharp detail and smooth texture. Keep the original subject and composition.

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Identify

Light colors become dark and complementary colors emerge.

Principle

Each channel value1 is subtracted from its maximum.

Try it out

Compare red and orange after inversion2.

Classification

Calculated image processing result.

Further examples · 7 images

Color print film strip 01 - negative
02 Color print film strip 01 - negativeA strip of Kodak Ektar 100 color print film shows inverted tones of a landscape and buildings. It demonstrates the orange base and reversed brightness values inherent to physical color negative media.LoMit · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fabrice de Nola - Negative photography
03 Fabrice de Nola - Negative photographyThe image displays people and artwork within a film frame border using inverted color values. Light skin tones appear dark and bright backgrounds appear light, illustrating the calculated tonal reversal of the effect.Fabrice de Nola · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
35 mm Kodak film negative held between fingers, and negative (colour inverted) version of it (right)
04 35 mm Kodak film negative held between fingers, and negative (colour inverted) version of it (right)A side-by-side comparison shows a physical film negative and its digitally inverted counterpart. The right side demonstrates the color negative effect where dark areas become light and skin tones shift to complementary blues.Pittigrilli · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
110 film negative strip
05 110 film negative stripA strip of 110 format color negative film is shown. The orange mask and inverted colors are the chemical precursor to the digital color negative effect.Bubba73 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Dx-film-edge-barcode
06 Dx-film-edge-barcodeA close-up of color negative film edge markings and frames. The visible complementary colors, such as the cyan sky appearing red, demonstrate the negative state.User:Caltrop · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AI illustration: A blue flower and magenta leaves
07 AI illustration: A blue flower and magenta leavesThe image shows a blue flower and magenta leaves. This illustrates Color Negative as the blue is the complement of natural orange-red petals, and magenta replaces natural green foliage.Illustration generated for the Atlas (AI)