Reinhard Color Transfer
A simple way to give one image the color mood of another, published by Erik Reinhard and colleagues in 2001. It matches the average and spread of each channel in a decorrelated color space.
Spot it
- 01Borrowed palette mood
- 02Preserved image structure
- 03Unified color cast
Why it happens
Converts both images to a decorrelated lαβ color space, shifts and scales each channel of the source to match the mean and standard deviation of the target, then converts back.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Apply a Reinhard color transfer to this image: re-grade it to match the color statistics of a warm sunset scene, with orange-pink highlights, deep teal-purple shadows and matching overall mean and contrast, while keeping all structure and detail unchanged. Keep the original subject and composition recognizable.”
Open PixioUpload your image and pick an image-edit model.