Acid
Acid, the acid visual look, is a ruined print: burned chroma, melting edges, silver that shifted, dyes left in the sun too long. The dyes should misbehave, and a festive rainbow LUT is not damage.
Narrative function
Nights that went wrong, posters, a memory that chemically failed: a face still held, edges melting, magentas and yellows overcooked. LSD is wet perception.
Acid is the print after the sun. Cross-process is a cousin in the soup.
It is the wrong tool for grocery-store realism, and the wrong tool if you add trails. Trails belong to LSD.
If it looks festive rather than damaged, you shot a party filter.
How it works
Lock off, 35mm to 50mm, eye height. Keep a readable face.
Prompt melted edges, overcooked magentas and yellows, shifted silver. Do not add trails unless you want LSD as well.
Pick one. Prompt: Acid look on [Subject], burned chroma, melting edges, a print left in the sun too long.
When to use it
A night that chemically failed, a poster, a damaged memory. Do not use it as a rainbow party grade, and do not mix trails unless you mean LSD.
Compared with similar shots
LSD is wet trails and breathing walls. Acid is print damage.
Cross Process is a specific soup mistake that shifts hues. Acid is the named ruin: melt, burn, sun-sick dyes.
Not a festive LUT.
In film
Enter the Void can overlap with LSD, but its dye is usable as burned chroma. Spring Breakers cooks color until it hurts.
Chemistry, not a party filter. Grammar, not a frame to copy.
Prompt it
Damage, not a party. Acid look on [Subject], burned chroma, melting edges, a print left in the sun too long.
Add lock-off, held face, melted edges, overcooked magenta and yellow, no trails. Pick acid or LSD, not both.
What usually goes wrong
A rainbow LUT, or trails from LSD stacked on melt. The tell is festive rather than ruined.
Fix it: show the melt, burn the dyes, hold the face.
Questions
What is Acid in film?
A ruined-print look: burned chroma, melting edges, dyes that sat in the sun. It is chemical damage, not a rainbow grade.
Acid vs LSD
LSD is wet perception: trails, breathing walls. Acid is a print that failed: melt and burn. Trails belong to LSD. Damage belongs to acid.
When should I use Acid?
Failed nights, posters, chemically sick memory. Skip grocery realism and party rainbows.
How do I prompt Acid for AI image or video?
Hold the face, then: Acid look on [Subject], burned chroma, melting edges, a print left in the sun too long. Forbid trails unless you mean LSD instead.
Melies can generate this Acid
Melies is the AI filmmaking workspace. This Acid opens with the look prompt loaded, so you generate the format instead of chasing a trend name.