For many years now we have been asked again and again whether there is a possibility to promote our color grading products and earn some commission in the process. And today the time has finally come.

I am so happy to share the Color.io Affiliate Program with to you today. And of course this is not just any affiliate program - no, it is an affiliate program for anyone who wants to support us in making the world a more colorful place. And to get closer to this mission, we decided to create a public program that really pays off for you - with up to 20% commission per sale.

If you are a filmmaker, photographer, colorist or passionate creative who uses and loves our color grading software, VisionColor LUTs and Web Apps and you want to share them with the world, then register today and start earning money.

This is a really great opportunity for us to grow together. The program is free for you, easy to set up and most importantly - it pays!

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[NEW] Offline Storage

Images you load into the application are now saved automatically in the background. When you close the app or reload the page the main image and any Custom References (Match Pro) are persisted. There's now a new "Clear App Cache" Button in the main menu that allows you to wipe the entire cache.

[FIX] Authentication Handling

Previously when you created a color match or a custom edit without being signed in to your account you lost all of your progress after signing in. This has been fixed by handling authentication in a separate window. 

[FIX] Match Pro Custom References Handling

Fixed various bugs related to managing custom reference files. 

+ Various UI and performance improvements

This update introduces our new Match Compiler that enables multiple matching passes of one or multiple target images. The compiler uses our underlying Sekoia Node System that has been upgraded to full float precision processing with fallback to half-float on mobile devices.

Match is available as a freemium app that runs directly in your browser. If you have Match installed to your iOS device home screen, the app has been updated automatically.

Check out our new Instagram page for Match to learn how to use the new Match Compiler!

This update fixes a number of issues that some users experienced after connecting the Photon OpenFX Connector Plugin to Davinci Resolve. We've also fixed a render bug in the 2D Feedback panel and made several performance optimizations under the hood. As always, you can download the latest version directly from within Photon or from your account.

• Bugfix - LUT swap on connect with OpenFX plugin
• Bugfix - Render Bug in Color Wheel

Match™ is our new progressive web application available on match.color.io that uses MECI (Machine Enhanced Color Intelligence) to automatically generate grades from reference images. 

Map colors from one image to another and generate 3D LUTs for use in Adobe Photoshop, Davinci Resolve, After Effects, Premiere and Photon 3D LUT Editor. 

Match™ works directly in modern browser on all platforms and can be installed as a self-updating, fullscreen mobile app. 

Learn more

Launch Web App

Install Match™ on iOS (iPad, iPhone)

Open match.color.io in Safari. Tap on the "Share" Icon at the bottom of the screen, scroll down and select "[+] Add to Home Screen". You can now launch Match™ in fullscreen mode like any other app. 

Install Match™ on Android

Open match.color.io in Chrome. Open the site settings by tapping on the three dots on the top right of the screen. Choose "Add to home screen". You can now launch Match™ in fullscreen mode like any other app.

So far the focus of our small team has been on improving and extending the technical aspects of Photon based on your feedback. We're really proud of how this close relationship with our users allows us to continuously create a better product.

But since we launched out of beta and started to introduce Photon to a larger audience we have received one overwhelmingly negative response: "Your pricing model sucks".  The main objections were this:

• unclear license terms
• no more updates or export after one year of usage
• too expensive when licenses have be to renewed yearly

None of these pricing and placement decisions were made with the intention to be deliberately confusing or limiting to our users. More than anything they were the result of being focused on creating a useful product and not having an experienced marketing team behind us. 

TLDR: Effective immediately, we are changing Photon to a lifetime license at the same price we previously charged for a yearly subscription. 

Lifetime license means:

• One Time Purchase
• Lifetime Support
• Lifetime Updates (for MAJOR versions)
• Special Discount when we upgrade to a new MAJOR version (like Photon 2.0 in a few years)

Additionally all current users, including everyone on the public beta deal are upgraded to a full lifetime license free of charge. 

Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Working on this product and platform has been an incredibly rewarding learning experience and we can't wait to show you some of the more exciting things we've been working on (other than pricing :D)

Cheers,

@Manuel Huettel @Pirmin Straub @Jonathan Ochmann 

Modern commercial look. Created entirely in Photon. No node trees, no LUTs. Just the power of Photon's smart color modeling, LUT painting and advanced 3D color masking. 

With just a few simple strokes over the image we're dramatically changing the look and feel of a beautiful night time shot by Photographer Jeremy Bishop

Photon automatically translates our paint strokes into smooth grading transformations in a 3D virtualized color space. The color science at the heart of Photon is purpose built for modern color grading and is geometrically optimized for smoothness and transform stability. By exposing the color engine to the user interface as a shapable color model, most of the complexities of color grading go away. You simply drag colors anywhere you want them across all dimensions. No layers, no nodes, no headaches. 

Free trial available from the Color.io AppStore

We need your help

Help us add better 3D LUT support for Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw by upvoting this feature request on the Photoshop Feedback page:

Click here -> Feature Request on Photoshop Feedback Site <----

Upvoting this feature request will help us and other software developers to programatically create LUTs in .xmp format for first class LUT support in Lightroom and Camera RAW.