Depth drains the color out of every dive. DeepColors puts it back the moment you open a clip — recovering the red the water stole, on photos and video, with HDR, LUT export and 4K ProRes.
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Light loses its warm wavelengths as you descend. Red is essentially gone by 5 metres, orange by 10, yellow by 20 — which is why everything drifts blue-green. DeepColors doesn't slap a red filter on top; it reverses that absorption, shot by shot, so the color comes back the way your eyes remembered it.
Automatic when you want it simple. A full grading suite when you don't. And export options no other dive app offers.
Open a photo or clip and it's already corrected — no button to press. It analyzes the shot, recovers the red the water absorbed with an automatic hue-shift, stretches every channel and sets a true black point. Built for underwater, not a generic filter.
When you want control: a color channel mixer — red, green and blue, with green-to-red and blue-to-red mixing — plus tone curve, clarity, dehaze, sharpen, white balance and exposure.
Move any adjustment slider and DeepColors drops a keyframe at that frame — analyzing it there — then interpolates the grade across every frame in between. A dive that drifts from bright shallows into deep blue stays corrected throughout.
The whole pipeline preserves HDR — highlights in shafts of light and sunballs keep their range instead of clipping to white.
Bake your correction into a 3D .cube LUT and drop it straight into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut — carrying your DeepColors grade into your edit.
Export up to 4K in HEVC, or ProRes 422 / 4444 for editing — MOV, MP4 or M4V. Full-resolution, 16-bit-fidelity image export too.
Open camera RAW files (including Sony .arw) natively on macOS, correct them at full fidelity, and export stills or LUTs.
There's no sign-up and no DeepColors server. Your photos and videos are corrected entirely on your device and never uploaded — the only thing that touches the network is Apple's App Store, for your subscription.
DeepColors measures how much red the water absorbed and finds the exact hue-shift to bring it back.
Each channel is stretched and a true black point is set, so contrast and color return without looking fake.
Save a 4K HDR clip, a ProRes master, or a .cube LUT for Resolve, Premiere and Final Cut.
Every shot below is a genuine dive photo, corrected in the app — nothing staged.
Keyframe the correction as your clip drifts from bright shallows into the deep blue, keep every bit of HDR, and export in 4K or ProRes. It's the part most dive apps skip.
Underwater video correctionMost dive color apps stop at a quick auto-fix. DeepColors starts there — and keeps going into HDR, keyframes and pro export.
| Capability | DeepColors | Typical dive color apps |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic underwater correction on import | ||
| Photo and video in one app | Some | |
| Keyframe video grading | ||
| HDR-preserving pipeline | ||
| Export .cube LUTs for Resolve / Premiere | ||
| 4K HDR & ProRes 422 / 4444 export | ||
| Manual channel mixer & tone curve | Some | |
| Camera RAW support (macOS) | ||
| Native Mac app, not just iPhone | ||
| No account; your footage never leaves your device | Some |
Comparison reflects capabilities commonly found in underwater color-correction apps as of 2026.
DeepColors corrects underwater photos and video automatically — the moment you open them — by recovering the red light that water absorbs with depth, then stretching each color channel for natural contrast. Unlike most dive color apps it grades video with keyframes, preserves HDR, and can export a .cube LUT or 4K HDR / ProRes for your desktop editor. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Water absorbs light by wavelength. Red is essentially gone by about 5 metres, orange by 10, and yellow by 20 — so with depth everything drifts toward blue-green. DeepColors reverses that absorption instead of just adding a fixed red filter, which is why the result looks natural rather than over-corrected.
No. A physical red filter helps but is fixed to one depth and steals light. DeepColors corrects in software after the dive, adapts to each shot, and with keyframes can follow a clip that changes depth. Many divers shoot without a filter and correct in the app instead.
Yes. Export your correction as a .cube 3D LUT and apply it in any editor that supports LUTs, so your DeepColors grade travels with the footage. Exact reproduction can vary with each editor's color management — DaVinci Resolve gives the closest match.
Yes. The correction is based on color analysis, not scuba-specific metadata, so it works for freediving, snorkeling, holiday reef clips and even swimming-pool footage.
It's free to download and try. A Premium subscription removes the watermark and unlocks .cube LUT export and 4K HDR / ProRes video export. There's no account, and your photos and videos are processed on your device rather than uploaded to a server (the subscription itself runs through Apple's App Store, like any iOS app).
Yes — it's a native Mac app as well as iPhone and iPad, sharing the same color engine. On Mac you can also open camera RAW files such as Sony .arw.
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