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.
Brand every export with your logo and name — ideal for dive shops, dive centers and underwater photographers. Choose size, opacity and one of five positions, preview it on the actual shot, and it's applied to photos and 4K video alike.
Open camera RAW files (including Sony .arw) natively on macOS, correct them at full fidelity, and export stills or LUTs.
Adjust just part of a photo. Select a subject with on-device AI, paint a mask with the brush — with per-stroke hardness and edge awareness — or add a linear or radial gradient. Every mask has its own full set of filters, and can be inverted, disabled or duplicated.
See the tonal distribution of your edit as you grade — red, green and blue together with a luma outline — in both the photo and video editors, so clipped shadows and highlights are easy to spot.
DeepColors speaks English plus 21 languages, including Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Thai and Indonesian.
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 correctionCorrect your guests' photos and videos in seconds and brand each export with your own watermark. Every shared reef shot then carries your dive shop's name.
DeepColors for dive shopsMost 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 | |
| Local masks: AI subject, brush, gradients | Some | |
| Custom logo watermark on photo & video exports | 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. Masks let you apply adjustments to only part of a photo. Select a subject with on-device AI, paint an area with the brush (with adjustable hardness and edge awareness that snaps to edges), or add a linear or radial gradient. Each mask has its own complete set of filters — brighten a fish, or darken the water towards the bottom of the frame. Masks are available for photos.
Yes. With Premium you can create a custom watermark from your own logo (PNG, JPEG, SVG, HEIC and more) and/or a name such as your dive shop or Instagram handle. Set the opacity, the size and the position — any corner or bottom-center — and preview it on the actual photo or video frame before you export. It's saved, so every photo and video you export afterwards carries it automatically, and you can switch it off at any time.
Yes. Dive shops, dive centers, liveaboards and instructors use DeepColors to color-correct guests' dive photos and videos in seconds and brand them with their own logo watermark before sharing. Correction is automatic on import, exports go up to 4K HDR, and because every shared photo or clip carries your logo, it works as word-of-mouth marketing for your dive business. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with no account and nothing uploaded.
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 DeepColors watermark, lets you add your own logo watermark instead, 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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