Moving on select your photo again go into Effects return to Color & Lighting. You will find Three Color Grading.
In a video I mentioned that there is also a Two Color and a Four Color Grading option. This Three Color Grading option blends three colors into the tones of your image and it is truly useful. You can adjust the angle scroll down to find rotation controls and rotate the color blend. You can also choose any base colors you like; the result looks impressive. If you want one flat color instead of a gradient blend choose that color and delete the others so that only one color remains. An opacity slider appears at the bottom for tuning.
Next in Color & Lighting is Chromatic, which is not used much so you can skip it. Scroll down and you will find several LUTs. I will add one just to show you but it is also rarely used; it looks like a background filter. I mentioned that I cover only what is commonly used in editing. I still want to show you what exists, just in case it is useful. There is also an HSL option for color mixing. You may try it and the color quality is very good. If you have used Lightroom or worked with the Diamond series you will recognize this type of color control; it is similar. You can skip it if it is not your style.
After that there are a few effects named New Color Temp and New Color Race; these are worth trying. There is also an effect that works like an overlay to gamma adjustments but leaning toward an afton-style effect, which I mentioned before and looks nice. You can also boost the RGB color values from that effect if needed. Many options are available for you to explore and use as you wish.
Move into another category that has seven effects most of them under color grading. Names such as Gradient Overlay and Long Shadow stand out. Long Shadow is used a lot. I will show you how: first open a text layer clear its height settings and set the background to white. I will set the text color to red in this example. Go to Effects and Long Shadow appears there. Scroll down. You will also find Ex Long Shadow. It works similarly. Has one key difference. Of one shadow color you can use two colors or even multiple colors. This looks great because regular Long Shadow only supports one color while Ex Long Shadow lets you combine two for example red and green for a dynamic shadow effect. I hope this makes sense far.
Select the photo again. Return to Color & Lighting. Scroll down. You will find Archive Speed and X Solid. Both behave similarly. Adding X places a solid color on your photo or PNG. For example if you have a PNG of Prabhas, the X Solid effect will apply to that layer. You can also add an effect on top for extra color depth if you want. Experiment to find what suits your edit.
Select the photo again go to Effects and under Color & Lighting go to Drawing Edge. This section contains effects, about fifteen. In it you will find Black Bar Mark, which mimics a letterbox frame that you have seen in movies. Add it. Increase the amount to crop the top and bottom of the frame creating that cinematic bar effect. Because my background was white earlier I will change it to black so you can see the cinematic frame effect clearly. This is useful if you want a film look. There is also an adjustment option to increase or decrease the amount and to adjust the angle. This option can also work as a mask-style effect, which's worth remembering.
Continue in Drawing Edge.
There are brush-style effects that all work similarly. I will demonstrate one. This effect gives a sketch style look, to a hand-drawn brush texture and it is adjustable. It works as a background element, for cinematic videos and it is definitely worth trying.
Next in Drawing Edge is Deep Shadow.
Deep Shadow comes in two versions, Deep Shadow and Deep Shadow Enhance, both genuinely useful. Let us add some text first and hide the rest for this demo setting the text to white. Go to Effects. Add Deep Shadow. Deep Shadow is not available in Alight Motion all. Keep in mind that none of these effects I am covering now exist there; they are exclusive to this app. There is a Radiance slider. Increasing the slider intensifies the Deep Shadow effect. You can push it far as you like and even change the shadow color to match your theme. There are plenty of options, including blend modes so you can customize Deep Shadow exactly how you want. Deep Shadow is extremely useful for videos or whenever you are adding captions at the bottom of a photo. For example if you want to add a caption under a photo apply Gradient Shadow to the photo (not to the text that gives a result). The caption text underneath will look really crisp and glowy. This works great for caption styling.
There is also Deep Shadow Enhance. Deep Shadow Enhance works similarly. Adds a stronger nano‑glow effect on top. The same controls apply. Boosting opacity gives that bright glowing feel, similar to increased lighting intensity. There are chromatic color options here too depending on the look you are going for.
Going back there is also Drop Shadow. Drop Shadow works like the Long Shadow effect I mentioned earlier. Setting the color to white and adjusting the shadow direction up or down gives you that long‑shadow style look. The effect is fully adjustable in strength and direction to a standard border‑and‑shadow effect you would see elsewhere.
Next is Edge Lines. Edge Lines is best applied to a photo than, to text. Adding Edge Lines gives a sketch‑style line effect to the sketch look I mentioned earlier. You can change the color too. Whatever color you set will reflect through the sketch lines giving you a customizable sketch overlay.