BeforeAfterPro templateNail ArtNiche
Nails Pastel
Niche category, on a 1:1 square canvas, with Quicksand Bold labels reading Before and After, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.
BeforeAfterThe job it is forNail Art pack
What Nails Pastel is for
Pink into lilac behind a square crop, a muted mauve rule, rounded sans labels in deep plum, and the roundest corners in the nail pack. Pastel sets are what it is for: a soft French, a milky base, chrome over a pale colour. Square is the honest shape for nail work, because a hand is photographed from directly above at one fixed distance and the frame has nothing else to hold.
Behind the pair sits a 2 stop gradient, #FFB3C6 through #C9B1FF, drawn by the frame itself. 2 points of #D4A0C0 hold the two photographs apart, with Quicksand Bold labels bottom centre. Corners are rounded by 20 points, on a 1:1 square frame, and the default wording is Before and After.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Nails Pastel, 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.
- Canvas1:1
- Rule2 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- BandNone
- Canvas
- 1:1 square
- Label face
- Quicksand Bold
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 2 pt
- Corners
- 20 pt radius
- Ground
- 2 stop gradient
- Branding
- Overlaid, no band
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Before and After
- Pack
- Nail Art
- Frame#FFB3C6
- Ground stop 1#FFB3C6
- Ground stop 2#C9B1FF
- Rule#D4A0C0
- Label#5C2A5C
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itNiche category
How to shoot a pair for Nails Pastel
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 Nails Pastel 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 gradient is part of the template rather than a filter over your photographs, so it cannot be turned off or recoloured. If the ground is fighting your subject, the fix is a different template rather than a setting.
If this one is not itFour questions, four answers
Without upgrading
BeforeAfterOpens on the free tier, on a 1:1 square canvas with Inter Bold labels.
Same pack, other end
BeforeAfterA darker ground in the same pack, with a 4 point #FF00AA rule.
Same label face
BeforeAfterAlso set in Quicksand 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 nail art 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 Nails Pastel template for?
- Pink into lilac behind a square crop, a muted mauve rule, rounded sans labels in deep plum, and the roundest corners in the nail pack. Pastel sets are what it is for: a soft French, a milky base, chrome over a pale colour. Square is the honest shape for nail work, because a hand is photographed from directly above at one fixed distance and the frame has nothing else to hold.
- When should I use something other than Nails Pastel?
- A pastel set on a pastel ground is a lot of the same note. When the set itself is pale, Nails Clean gives it a white border and a pink hairline, and lets the colour on the nail be the only colour in the picture.
- Is Nails Pastel 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 Nails Pastel, and what will it export at?
- The template's canvas is 1:1 square. 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. 1:1 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
- Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
- Yes. Nails Pastel 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 Nails Pastel
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