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name: "lolly-demo-photography"
description: "How Lolly Demo photographs look and how to grade, crop and treat them. Use when choosing, editing or grading a photograph for Lolly Demo work, in Darkroom, Filter or Design."
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# Lolly Demo photography

Read the Lolly Demo brand standards first. This skill covers photographs only.

## What a Lolly Demo photograph shows

- Treats and nature, close up: fruit, sweets, birds, leaves, water. One subject per frame.
- Daylight or soft window light. No hard flash and no heavy vignettes.
- Real texture: feathers, sugar crystals, skin. Do not smooth it away.
- Colour that already sits near the Opal palette, so a grade nudges rather than repaints.

[The lorikeet with a lollipop](https://lolly.tools/brand/lolly-demo/catalog/assets/lolly/demo/lorikeet-lollipop.jpg) is the reference picture. It was generated with AI and keeps its own Content Credential; say so wherever it is credited.

## Grading

- Start from [Standard Slide](https://lolly.tools/brand/lolly-demo/catalog/assets/lolly/luts/slide-standard.cube), a neutral daylight look. Use [Vivid Slide](https://lolly.tools/brand/lolly-demo/catalog/assets/lolly/luts/slide-vivid.cube) for food and sweets, and [Fine Mono](https://lolly.tools/brand/lolly-demo/catalog/assets/lolly/luts/mono-fine.cube) for black and white.
- Grade lightly. Skin and feathers should still look like themselves.
- A duotone uses two Opal colours, dark first: Liquorice with Spearmint, or Spearmint with Pandanus.
- Never tint a photograph with a highlight colour across the whole frame.

## Cropping

- Crop to the subject, then leave room for any text on the side the subject faces.
- Keep horizons level. Do not rotate for effect.
- Do not crop through eyes, beaks or hands.

## Text on photographs

- Put text over the calmest part of the picture, or on a solid Liquorice or Sugar panel beside it.
- Check the text against the actual pixels under it, not against the photograph's average colour.

## Credits

- Every photograph carries its source and licence. Ids are references, not a licence.
- Mark AI-generated pictures as AI-generated, and keep any Content Credential they arrived with.