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LUTs and what they are

LUT is short for Look Up Table. It's a kind of conversion profile that 'remaps' the luminance and colour values in an image on to new values. LUTs are widely used in cinematography to create a certain 'look' and they have now captured the attention of software publishers.

When LUTs can be a lifeline

January 24, 2023 by Rod Lawton

LUT stands for LookUp Table. It’s a digital file that shifts colors and tones in hue, saturation, luminance – usually all three. LUTs are used widely in video editing and cinematography, but are becoming increasingly popular in regular stills photography. They are like ‘pre-processing’ for images. They give you a whole new look without involving any of the editing tools – unlike presets.

Filed Under: Featured, Lutify.me, TutorialsTagged With: LUTs, Profiles

Lutify.me review

August 12, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 5 stars Lutify.me is a subscription-based LUTs package for both video and stills, which includes excellent downloadable LUTs and an online LUT previewer.

Filed Under: Featured, Lutify.me, ReviewsTagged With: LUTs

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters

September 30, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters. How a series of tools and effects can be used in combination towards an overall ‘look’.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Graduated filters, LUTs, Vignette

One subject, six different LUTS: choosing a ‘look’ for your images

August 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

I’m a big fan of LUTs (lookup tables). They are used in cinematography to give movies a specific ‘look’ but they’ve now crossed over into stills photography, where they are used for everything from vintage effects to film simulations.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, GeneralTagged With: LUTs

Picture styles and film simulation with digital cameras

May 30, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Digital cameras typically offer a range of ‘picture styles’ to suit different subjects or different tastes in color rendition. Canon calls these Picture Styles, Nikon calls them Picture Controls and other camera makers have their own names.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, GeneralTagged With: ACROS (Fujifilm), Analog, Black and white, Film simulation, Grain, JPEG vs RAW, LUTs, Picture control/style, Profiles, Velvia

Dawlish Beach in black and white, with Exposure X5 adjustment layers

May 16, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Exposure X5

This project turns a regular color RAW file into a strong black and white image in Exposure X5. It uses a number of different tools so it’s a good chance to see how these work and how they can be used together. It’s also a good example the kind of image which works well in […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Adjustment layer, Black and white, Borders and frames, Curves, LUTs, Split toning

RAW vs JPEG: things you can do with RAW files that you can’t do with JPEGs

May 15, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Most serious photographers prefer RAW files to JPEGs. They take more time and storage, but the payback is greater quality and flexibility. It’s not a one-sided argument – JPEGs have some advantages which are obvious, and some which are not – but here are six important reasons why RAW files are the way to go […]

Filed Under: FeaturedTagged With: 14-bit RAW, 16-bit image, 8-bit images, Bits and bit depth, Highlight recovery, JPEG vs RAW, LUTs, Noise reduction, Profiles, RAW file, RAW processing, RAW+JPEG, Shadow recovery, Sharpening, TIFF

Lightroom CC Profiles explained

April 14, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom CC offers a range of Presets and you can create or save your own. But Presets use a combination of editing tools and effects, while there is another, more basic adjustment you can make to the look of your photos with Profiles. Profiles have been around in Lightroom for some time, but it’s only […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: LUTs, Profiles

An Icelandic church edited in Exposure X

March 31, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Exposure X

This shot of an Icelandic church looked nice enough in color but I thought it had a bit more potential as a black and white image – though there were a few issues I wanted to sort out first. For this project I used Exposure X. The same tools exist in other programs, but I […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, LUTs, Masks, Perspective correction, Vignette

Montacute House in moody monochrome with split toning

August 2, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

What is the mood you’re trying to capture? For his image of an Elizabethan country house, I wanted and sombre and forbidding look, and this required black and white, some dodging and burning and subtle toning.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Dodging and burning, LUTs, Split toning

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