{"slug": "show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico", "title": "Show HN: An AI Color Grader – Pico", "summary": "Pico, an open-source AI color grading tool built on Claude, standardizes footage from S-Log3 to Rec.709 color space without automating the creative process. Developer Perbhat Bhatia positions Pico as a tool that removes technical tedium while preserving the artist's agency in color grading.", "body_md": "## Pico\n\n[Pico](https://github.com/perbhat/agentic-color-grader) is a Claude harness for color correction.\n\nInstead of empowering creators to realize their visions, most AI tools focus on automating production end-to-end.\n\nThe creative act is not something to be automated away. It is a moment of expression, where artists move from an idea in their heads to a story on a screen. Instead of automating away their agency, we should build tools to empower creators.\n\nPico is one opinionated example. Pico is not an AI video editor. Pico is a color corrector. Pico does not grade — you do.\n\nPico merely removes the tedium of standardizing your footage from S-Log3 to a Rec.709 color space.\n\nPico is for you. Try it [here](https://github.com/perbhat/agentic-color-grader).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico", "canonical_source": "https://www.perbhat.com/pico", "published_at": "2026-07-29 22:43:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 23:22:37.815181+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Pico", "Claude", "Perbhat Bhatia"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-ai-color-grader-pico.jsonld"}}