BeforeAfterPro templateHair SalonNiche
Dark Salon
Niche category, on a 9:16 vertical canvas, with Inter Bold labels reading Before and After, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.
BeforeAfterThe job it is forHair Salon pack
What Dark Salon is for
Near-black with a plum shift in the gradient and a thin hot pink rule, vertical, with a shallow band for the salon name. Evening work belongs in it, and so does a salon whose own interior runs dark; the vertical canvas fills a Reel, which is where most hair work gets watched. The pink rule is the only bright thing in it, so it reads as a line rather than as a border.
#1A1A1A shades into #2D0A1F behind the two halves, and that wash is part of the template rather than a filter on your photographs. A 2 point #FF69B4 divider splits the canvas, and the Inter Bold labels sit bottom centre. It ships with Before and After already typed, on a 9:16 vertical canvas, rounded by 16 points. Under the pair the template holds back 48 points for a logo and a business name, which is what makes it worth using twice.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Dark Salon, as the build holds it
What makes a trade template a trade template lives mostly in the small values: the wording already sitting in the labels, the palette, the crop it was cut to. The geometry is drawn below at the app's drawing scale, and the panel next to it lists the record's words, default labels included, so the retyping you avoid is visible up front.
- Canvas9:16
- Rule2 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- Band48 pt
- Canvas
- 9:16 vertical
- Label face
- Inter Bold
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 2 pt
- Corners
- 16 pt radius
- Ground
- 2 stop gradient
- Branding
- Reserved band, 48 pt
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Before and After
- Pack
- Hair Salon
- Frame#1A1A1A
- Ground stop 1#1A1A1A
- Ground stop 2#2D0A1F
- Rule#FF69B4
- Label#FFFFFF
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itNiche category
How to shoot a pair for Dark Salon
Trade work is judged by people who do the same work, so the pair has to survive an expert eye. Hair and makeup need the same head angle and the same light, because a chin lifted two inches reads as a different face. Nails need one fixed distance, hands in the same position both times. Detailing and landscaping need the wide shot before the close-up, or nobody believes the panel belongs to the car. A pair that would satisfy somebody in your trade will satisfy a customer easily.
In orderWritten for niche work
- 01Take the before before you start work, not after you have half finished. This is the step every trade skips and every trade regrets.
- 02Mark your standing spot. A tile, a chair leg, a wheel arch, a paving stone: something that will still be there when you shoot the after.
- 03Shoot the after from that mark with Ghost Camera on, then take a second one a step closer for the detail.
- 04Pick the pack for your trade. The label wording and the palette are already right, so the only real decision left is the canvas shape.
- 05Add your business name in the branding strip if the template reserves one, then export. Trade work gets shared, and a name in the frame travels with it.
Trade work gets judged by people who do the same work, so hold the pair up to that eye before it goes out. The browser slider tool does it on your own device in about two seconds, and the guide to fake-looking pairs is built around the mistakes trade pairs make most often.
Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real
What Dark Salon will not do
A template tuned to a trade is a palette and a default label, nothing more. It does not know your subject, and it will happily frame a pair that does not match. The two hardest cases in this category are honest ones: hair and makeup change with the light, so a warm salon bulb over the after does most of the work you were hoping the haircut would do, and a pet photographed wet looks like a different animal from a pet photographed dry. Shoot both frames dry, in the same spot, or the post argues with itself.
On this template in particularThe branding strip is a reserved band of a fixed depth under the pair rather than an overlay, so a tall or unusually shaped logo is scaled to fit inside it. It is one logo and one business name in one place, which is the whole of the app's branding.
If this one is not itFour questions, four answers
Without upgrading
BeforeAfterOpens on the free tier, on a 9:16 vertical canvas with Inter Bold labels.
Same pack, other end
BeforeAfterA lighter ground in the same pack, with a 1 point #D4AF37 rule.
Same label face
BeforeAfterAlso set in Inter Bold, so a series can change frame without changing voice.
Nearby in the catalogue
BeforeAfterclean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.
After the frame, the pair and the captionFor hair salon work
Back up to every niche template, or to the whole catalogue. The free browser slider is at the slider tool, and the hashtag research by trade starts at the hashtag index.
Common questions
- Who is the Dark Salon template for?
- Near-black with a plum shift in the gradient and a thin hot pink rule, vertical, with a shallow band for the salon name. Evening work belongs in it, and so does a salon whose own interior runs dark; the vertical canvas fills a Reel, which is where most hair work gets watched. The pink rule is the only bright thing in it, so it reads as a line rather than as a border.
- When should I use something other than Dark Salon?
- Two points of rule on a tall canvas is a fine line to hang a reveal on. If the two photographs are similar at a glance, a mid-length trim rather than a colour change, take Bold Color and let a four point rule do the announcing.
- Is Dark Salon free?
- No, it is one of the Pro templates. The free tier opens 8 of the 100, and everything else in the editor is free with them: all four comparison modes, Ghost Camera, the filters, the stickers, the full label editor, and your own logo and business name.
- What shape is Dark Salon, and what will it export at?
- The template's canvas is 9:16 vertical. The export ratio is a separate choice made in the export sheet: 9:16 and 1:1 on the free tier, plus 4:5 and the original ratio on Pro. 9:16 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
- Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
- Yes. Dark Salon starts with "Before" and "After", and every part of that is editable: the text, the typeface, the colour, the size, bold and italic, uppercase, a shadow, the background opacity, and the position, either one of five presets or dragged anywhere on the canvas.
- Can I compare two video clips with this?
- Not at all. Take a photograph before the job and a photograph after it; that pair is the entire input, and the app turns it into a reveal. Filming the job and cutting it down is a different tool's work.
Put your own pair in Dark Salon
Two photographs, one template, and a reveal that plays in about four seconds. Three exports a day are free, each behind a short rewarded ad.
Get the app freeiPhone, iOS 17 and later