BeforeAfterPro templateLuxuryPlatform
Sapphire
Platform category, on a 4:5 portrait canvas, with Playfair Display Bold labels reading Before and After, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.
BeforeAfterThe job it is forLuxury pack
What Sapphire is for
Deep blue into near-black, a two point gold rule, gold serif labels, portrait. The coolest of the three and the most formal: it suits watches, glass, metal, marble, a hotel room, anything where the finish is the argument. The narrower rule keeps more of the photograph visible than Emerald does, which matters on a detailed subject.
Behind the pair sits a 2 stop gradient, #0A2463 through #051230, drawn by the frame itself. A 2 point #D4AF37 divider splits the canvas, and the Playfair Display Bold labels sit bottom centre. It ships with Before and After already typed, on a 4:5 portrait canvas, rounded by 12 points.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Sapphire, as the build holds it
A stylised frame is mostly colour, and colour is the part of any record that reads badly as a column of hex values. So the diagram draws the frame at the scale the app renders it, letting the ground, the rule and the label corner arrive as a picture instead. The record's remaining words are in the panel beside it.
- Canvas4:5
- Rule2 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- BandNone
- Canvas
- 4:5 portrait
- Label face
- Playfair Display Bold
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 2 pt
- Corners
- 12 pt radius
- Ground
- 2 stop gradient
- Branding
- Overlaid, no band
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Before and After
- Pack
- Luxury
- Frame#0A2463
- Ground stop 1#0A2463
- Ground stop 2#051230
- Rule#D4AF37
- Label#D4AF37
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itPlatform category
How to shoot a pair for Sapphire
A stylised frame sets an expectation the pair has to meet. Neon on near-black flatters a subject with hard edges and hard light, and drowns a soft one. Gold on dark asks the photograph to be composed rather than snapped. The wide layouts show the sides of a subject that vertical crops away, which is what makes them the right shape for a driveway, a garden, a room or a workbench, and the wrong shape for a person.
In orderWritten for platform work
- 01Decide the surface first. The wide layouts are for a site, an embed or a video thumbnail, and they will letterbox badly inside a vertical feed.
- 02Match the subject to the treatment. Neon wants hard edges and contrast; the luxury frames want an even, composed photograph.
- 03Shoot wider than feels necessary for the wide layouts. Cropping in is free, and inventing the edges of a frame is not.
- 04Keep the labels short. Serif labels at small sizes and condensed caps at large ones both punish long wording, in opposite ways.
- 05Export at the ratio that matches where it lands, remembering the export sheet's ratios are chosen separately from the template's own canvas.
A frame with this much character will either flatter the pair or expose it, and rarely neither. The in-browser slider tells you which, on your own device, in about two seconds. The guide to unconvincing pairs covers the causes when the answer is the wrong one.
Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real
What Sapphire will not do
The wide layouts are the honest catch in this category. The export sheet offers vertical, square, portrait and the original ratio, so a wide canvas arrives at its shape through the original ratio option rather than through a wide preset of its own. Check the first export before you build a set on it. Beyond that, a strong look does not survive a weak pair: a neon frame around two mismatched photographs makes the mismatch look deliberate, which is worse than making it look careless.
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 lighter ground in the same pack, with a 3 point #D4AF37 rule.
Same shape, other register
RawEditedThe same 4:5 portrait canvas, filed under clean rather than platform.
Nearby in the catalogue
BeforeAfterclean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.
After the frame, the pair and the captionFor luxury work
Back up to every platform 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 Sapphire template for?
- Deep blue into near-black, a two point gold rule, gold serif labels, portrait. The coolest of the three and the most formal: it suits watches, glass, metal, marble, a hotel room, anything where the finish is the argument. The narrower rule keeps more of the photograph visible than Emerald does, which matters on a detailed subject.
- When should I use something other than Sapphire?
- Two points of gold on a very dark ground is a subtle divider. If the two photographs are similar at a glance, the split can be missed entirely, and Emerald's wider rule is the fix.
- Is Sapphire 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 Sapphire, and what will it export at?
- The template's canvas is 4:5 portrait. 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. 4:5 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
- Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
- Yes. Sapphire 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?
- No. However stylised the frame, the input is two stills. The look is applied to a pair of photographs, and the export is a short reveal, a looping GIF or a single image.
Put your own pair in Sapphire
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.
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