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LUTs are really specifically geared toward color grading but it would be interesting to see if LUTs could be expanded upon somehow in the future. That said, there are definite limitations to LUTs, they only affect color globally, so there’s no way to provide for more complex effects like adding micro-contrast to your image.

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It’s just one setting and it can make what would require a complex series of adjustments using Photoshop’s adjustment layers much simpler. I really like the simplicity of using a LUT. It’s a matter of preference, if you like how a certain program allows you to control the highlights or something like that but you dislike having to open your files in multiple programs you can basically export those edits using the HALD file and create a LUT that you can use in the program you prefer to do your primary edits in. You might ask why do all this? Well, you don’t really need to do it, but some programs do offer a little bit different approach to editing curves, hue, saturation, and luminance.

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If you like the LUT I created in this tutorial just click here to download the. It’s fun to distill down your work to a button click by using a LUT. Then save the HALD and recreate your CUBE using the newly adjusted HALD file.Īfter that is done you can go apply your new LUT to your original image and you should see all your edits combined into one LUT, the original Adjustment Layers, and the Camera Raw filters.īelow is my image with the finished LUT applied containing the effects of my adjustment layers and the Camera Raw filter. Applying my Camera Raw settings to the HALD file Now reopen the edited HALD image you applied adjustments to earlier and apply the Camera Raw filter preset you just made to the HALD. That basically means you can use curves (shadow/highlights is a curve adjustment), contrast, and HSL sliders.Īfter you’ve made some adjustments save what you did as a preset in Camera Raw. Remember to turn off anything that changes the structure of the image like noise reduction. Now make some adjustments using Camera Raw. JPG then open the newly saved JPG in Photoshop and start the Camera Raw filter. Go back to the image you were editing and save the edited version (with your LUT applied) as a. For the next example we will use the Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop to further manipulate our LUT.

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Now that we know how to do that let’s take it a step further.

You should see that the LUT produces the same result your adjustment layers did.Ĭongrats you made your first LUT using a HALD file, exciting wasn’t it? Further edit the LUT

Now check out the LUT you just made in Photoshop by adding a Color Lookup adjustment layer on your original photo and loading your LUT into it. This will create a CUBE file in the same directory as the HALD that you can now use in any program. Unfortunately I did not get a great white balance on this one, I just used a camera preset instead of a grey card like I should have, oh well, that’s why Photoshop exists right? My goal with this LUT is to add contrast and remove some of the warmth in the image.

This will make your final LUT much more flexible. You really want to choose an image that is already in a neutral state, like straight out of camera. Edit your starting imageīelow is the image I will be starting with. This file will be the core representation of our LUT that we can apply the effects of multiple programs or Photoshop adjustments. So what we’re going to being doing is using a special file called a HALD file that we will create using the LUT Generator. The only issue is that you can’t edit that LUT with another program and you can’t apply edits to your LUT using the Camera Raw filter. It’s true that you can export a LUT using Photoshop, and that is a great feature.

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In this tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop but you can use any imaging software you want. The first thing you’ll have to do to get started is download the key component of this tutorial, the LUT Generator from IWLTBAP. We can apply all the color adjustments we want to this image using multiple programs to create a highly refined LUT for our editing workflow.

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Using the LUT generator we will apply the effects of our edits to a special image. In this tutorial we’ll be using the LUT Generator from IWLTBAP. If you aren’t sure what a LUT is check out my post “ What is a LUT?” for more information. PNG you can make a LUT file using this method! In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create awesome LUTs for color grading using any editing program whether it supports LUTs or not.