Enter the Upside Down. A love letter to the golden era of 1980s sci-fi and the eerie, atmospheric color grading of Stranger Things, this signature preset instantly pulls your scene into another dimension. Designed to completely overhaul your skies, it replaces natural light with a brooding, supernatural atmosphere that feels simultaneously nostalgic and ominous.
This is an aggressive, highly stylized cinematic tool. It is built to shift flat, uninteresting skies into a toxic palette of bruised pinks, deep purples, and unnatural teals, while intentionally crushing the foreground to create stark, dramatic silhouettes.
The Aesthetic:
The Upside Down Palette: Injects a distinct sci-fi thriller color grade directly into your highlights and midtones, creating an immediate sense of cinematic tension.
Dramatic Silhouettes: Aggressively deepens the shadows in foreground elements—like winter trees or urban architecture—to push the viewer's eye straight into the otherworldly sky.
Analog Nostalgia: Mimics the heavy, atmospheric density of vintage 1982 cinema, giving modern digital files a gripping, narrative weight.
What’s Included:
1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)
1 Mobile Preset (.dng)
Step-by-step Installation Guide
Note: This is an extreme color-shift preset that performs best on images with distinct silhouettes and open, expansive skies. Because it heavily manipulates camera calibration and tone curves, you may need to adjust your White Balance (Temp/Tint) sliders to perfectly align the purple and pink hues with your original exposure.
Enter the Upside Down. A love letter to the golden era of 1980s sci-fi and the eerie, atmospheric color grading of Stranger Things, this signature preset instantly pulls your scene into another dimension. Designed to completely overhaul your skies, it replaces natural light with a brooding, supernatural atmosphere that feels simultaneously nostalgic and ominous.
This is an aggressive, highly stylized cinematic tool. It is built to shift flat, uninteresting skies into a toxic palette of bruised pinks, deep purples, and unnatural teals, while intentionally crushing the foreground to create stark, dramatic silhouettes.
The Aesthetic:
The Upside Down Palette: Injects a distinct sci-fi thriller color grade directly into your highlights and midtones, creating an immediate sense of cinematic tension.
Dramatic Silhouettes: Aggressively deepens the shadows in foreground elements—like winter trees or urban architecture—to push the viewer's eye straight into the otherworldly sky.
Analog Nostalgia: Mimics the heavy, atmospheric density of vintage 1982 cinema, giving modern digital files a gripping, narrative weight.
What’s Included:
1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)
1 Mobile Preset (.dng)
Step-by-step Installation Guide
Note: This is an extreme color-shift preset that performs best on images with distinct silhouettes and open, expansive skies. Because it heavily manipulates camera calibration and tone curves, you may need to adjust your White Balance (Temp/Tint) sliders to perfectly align the purple and pink hues with your original exposure.
