The color look up adjustment layer unlocks the power of LUTS, or look up tables. This is a powerful operation that allows you to transfer color information between applications, or to assign preset recipes to simulate film stocks or do advanced color effects. Let me show you how they work. To apply a look up table is pretty easy. Lets start with the built in look up tables. I'll click on the adjustments tab here, and then choose look up table. It looks like a grid here, and the label is 'color lookup'. Using the Color Lookup adjustment layer … [Read more...] about Using the color lookup adjustment layer in Photoshop
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Attaching a LUT to a Lightroom preset
A recent change to Lightroom is an Advanced Camera Profile that allows you to attach other settings. Now, we can actually import look-up tables, and attach them to our Lightroom presets. This means that a lot of the advanced things you do in PhotoShop can translate to a Lightroom color adjustment. Let me show you how to take the PhotoShop lot, and attach to a Lightroom preset. One of the easiest ways to create a new Lightroom profiles to actually use Adobe Bridge. What you have to do is, select an image, and then right-click, and open that … [Read more...] about Attaching a LUT to a Lightroom preset
Synchronizing multiple images in Photoshop with lookup tables
One of the greatest advantages of lookup tables is that it makes it simple to apply the same adjustment to several photos. Instead of having to record an action or do a lot of extra work, we can actually take the lookup table, export it from one image, and apply it to several others. This makes it very quick to fix multiple problems. Another thing that you can use a LUT for is to quickly synchronize several images. Let's add that adjustment layer here. And I'm gonna click to load the 3D LUT, and this time, I'm gonna go back to the exercise file … [Read more...] about Synchronizing multiple images in Photoshop with lookup tables
Creating custom lookup tables (LUTs) with Photoshop
As an advanced user, you're probably excited by LUTs and what' I'd like you to do now is realize that anything you can do with an adjustment layer can be stored as a lookup table. This means some of the complex recipes that you've discovered in this course, with blending modes and adjustment layers, can all get bundled up into one lookup table. Now it doesn't support masks or anything like that. But it does allow you to take multiple adjustment layers and concatenate or build those into one lookup table, which can then be applied to images in … [Read more...] about Creating custom lookup tables (LUTs) with Photoshop
Diving into Lightroom’s New Profile System
With Lightroom's latest 7.3 update, it introduced a new way to handle profiles. This combined the typical camera calibration tools that we were used to, along with a feature compares similarly to LUTs (lookup tables). How Do I Get My Old Camera Profiles Back? If you shoot in RAW, you might be used to using your camera profiles in Lightroom to restore some of the depth and color that you saw on the back of your camera screen. But in Lightroom 7.3, the camera profiles area has been moved, to the top of the Basic panel in the Develop … [Read more...] about Diving into Lightroom’s New Profile System
How to use LUTs, Luminar 2018 and RAW DJI to Perfect Drone Photos
This article is about how to use Luminar 2018 with LUTs, to edit your RAW DJI Drone Images (DNG). Using Luminar 2018 in conjunction with LUTs can be a great starting point for your DJI Drone RAW images, to help you create that look you want. I will be demonstrating this on a Mac. In the Windows world the process should be very similar. Want to know what the heck a LUT is? Click here. Follow along If you want to follow along then you will need to have Luminar 2018. You can download a trial version here. You will also need the DJI specific LUTs … [Read more...] about How to use LUTs, Luminar 2018 and RAW DJI to Perfect Drone Photos
Creating LUTs in Photoshop
LUTs are Look Up Tables. They are really easy to create in Photoshop for use in other programs like Premiere Pro for motion and Luminar 2018 for still photographs. This video from Rich Harrington shows you how. Building a LUT in Photoshop from Premiere Pro Guru: LUTs and Look Files by Richard Harrington Photo: Adobe Stock … [Read more...] about Creating LUTs in Photoshop
Creating LUTs for Premiere Pro in Photoshop
LUTs or Look Up Tables are a great way to add a constant colour theme to your footage in Premiere Pro. If you're already familiar with Photoshop then it may be easier for you to do the colour work in Photoshop and then import it to Premiere, in this vide I'll show you how. In this video I cover; Opening Lumetri Using LUTs in Premiere Pro Using LUTs in Photoshop Creating LUTs in Photoshop Importing LUTs into Premiere Pro Adding a LUT to a single or multiple clips in a sequence. https://youtu.be/oDRogsrQSCg … [Read more...] about Creating LUTs for Premiere Pro in Photoshop
Saving A Photoshop Look Up Table
If you use adjustment layers to create a look in Photoshop and want to be able to replicate it then Look Up Tables, or LUTs, are the answer; For this example I'm using an image from Fotolia. Using three adjustment layers I've created a 'cross processed / high contrast' type of look. So how do i save this for future? Saving A Look Up Table From the File Menu choose Export > Color Look Up Tables; When you choose this a new dialogue box appears; Choose a name, copyright name and format and then adjust the quality. Click OK. You'll then … [Read more...] about Saving A Photoshop Look Up Table
