One chip, whole personality. Inspector → Style: a Look sets grade, border, stage, backdrop, lens deal, Photo Size, transition mix bias, Match Look music, and which multi-photo groups run.
⌘Z undoes Style changes. Reset Style to Defaults restores this tab (and caption style, not caption text). Once captions exist, that control becomes a menu: Reset styles only or Reset styles and clear [N] captions….
Same photo under each chip — grade, mat, wash, and grain change; the kids don’t.
Click a chip and MemoryString commits: it re-populates Motion → Transitions Mix, re-deals single-slide cuts from that mix’s bias, and applies that Look’s group settings. Hand-picked Motion checkboxes are discarded.
Click the same Look again to roll a new deal — same wardrobe, different shuffle: three lens effects (every Look except Clean), a new mix of single-slide cuts, and a new Match Look bed if that playlist is still the untouched auto soundtrack. Pins under Studio Lens Effect survive. Atmosphere and Decals stay None unless you picked them.
Editing Customize…, Stage, Photo Size, or Motion switches the chip to Custom.
Energy, output format, intro on/off, intro text, a background still you already chose, and per-photo overrides are not reset. A Look does skin the intro card.
Looks never turn Atmosphere or Decals on. That’s your call — the chip won’t surprise you with floating maple leaves.
A Look that enables several light effects does not play them all on every photo — see Customize.
Nothing between you and the photo. Chalk white matte, soft contact shadow outside the mat (not a dark rim), Large Photo Size, colored backdrop, Gentle cuts, no film damage, no light effects. Stacks + carousel at Motion defaults; Perspective Pair every 6; ribbon rare.
Instant prints on a table. Fat white paper matte with a heavier bottom margin, subtle curl, soft settle glow, gentle wind, plastic vignette, whisper grain. Large Photo Size, Playful bias. Dense stacks every 3 (size 5); carousel every 6; Perspective Pair every 8.
Aged album page. Heavy black mat, rough torn edge, light curl, warm leak, grayscale backdrop, heavy grain / fringe / scratches, Large Photo Size, Gentle cuts. Sparse stacks + ribbon; Perspective Pair every 7; Filmstrip on. (Leaves stay an opt-in Atmosphere pack — not auto-enabled.)
Anamorphic and locked off. Hairline black frame, strong shadow, soft floor reflection, fine grain, coloured leak, random backdrop, the widest lens deal of any Look (~3 from Flare / Ghosting / Orbs / 50mm Prime / Pulse / Starburst / Sweep / Veiling Glare / Anamorphic Streaks / Vignette / Bokeh; How often default 70%), Dramatic cuts, Large Photo Size. Carousel + ribbon lead; Perspective Pair every 8; Filmstrip every 8; Scatter & Settle every 8, thrown full and wide.
Moody photographic black-and-white. Softened true-mono plate grade (open midtones — not crushed poster blacks), black frame, strong shadow, vignette + light grain, sharp corners, Large Photo Size, Gentle cuts. Plate and backdrop wash stay mono so the stage matches the print; mats and card backs stay white or black paper only (Customize → Plate → Photo Border), never cream stock. Perspective Pair every 7. A step punchier than neighbouring B&W. Optical Bokeh stays off (mono Looks never ship it). Anamorphic Streaks keep their shape as plain light bars instead of blue/amber; Refract Bubbles lose their rainbow rim and read as clear glass.
Soft documentary grayscale. Gentler true-mono plate grade with open midtones — cleaner and softer than Noir, no colour cast. White mat, soft shadow, rounded corners, whisper grain, Large Photo Size, Gentle cuts. Optical Bokeh stays off; colour accents go neutral as they do on Noir. Same mono rule: wash follows the grayscale look; mats / card backs are White or Black paper only. Perspective Pair every 8.
Warm late-day colour. Warm plate lift with soft highlight roll-off (colour stays — not sepia Vintage), white mat, subtle curl, soft reflection + settle glow, gentle wind, warm leak, stage sun wash, Large Photo Size, Gentle cuts. Deals ~3 from Flare / Veiling Glare / Orbs / Sweep / Vignette / Refract Bubbles / Bokeh. Perspective Pair every 8.
Cool editorial snap. Cool-neutral plate grade with open midtones, thin white frame, strong shadow, sharp corners, vignette, Large Photo Size, Dramatic cuts. Perspective Pair every 8; Filmstrip every 8.
How fast the room breathes. Header band: Calm · Steady · Lively · Energetic · Intense. Slider from Calm to Intense. Biases motion and pacing. Energy never clears hand-picked Motion checkboxes.
Above roughly 93% Energy, Spiral-in and Reveal from depth cannot play (boxes dim). If they were the only kinds checked, the movie falls back to Ken Burns while Energy stays that high.
The room the prints live in — Dark (black void) or Light (cream gallery). Inspector → Style, under Energy. Host colour behind every plate, wash, seam, the end fade, and the intro card’s plate / Matte frame chrome so Light never leaves a black scrap on cream. The eight Looks pick Dark by default. Changing Stage yourself also marks Style as Custom.
Dark — black void (classic MemoryString).
Light — cream gallery.
How big the hero card sits on stage. Word labels only: Smallest · Small · Medium · Large · Largest (not a percentage readout). Five stops from 60% at Smallest through 98% at Largest — the resting card matches the stop. Default for every Look is Large. A still can still grow a little past rest as slow zoom plays out.
Sets hero / single-slide short-edge fill. Every single-slide cut keeps that full size. Group heroes take Photo Size into account; a group may soft-fit under the label so it stays on stage — single-slide heroes are never flattened to spare a group. Social Safe clamps Photo Size to about 85–98%.
Bulk Auto Caption / Clear, and (Studio) Type & Placement. See Intro and captions.