![]() ![]() ![]() It’s fine for the background, but not quite right for our ballerina’s skintones. This LUT creates a purple ‘matte’ effect with slightly lifted blacks. There is a small selection included, but it’s easy to load a LUT file of your own. In Affinity Photo, however, LUTs are applied as an adjustment layer. Some software applications apply LUTs as a ‘profile’ at the start of the photo-editing process, making it difficult to control or modify its effect. The best news of all is that using and creating LUTs in Affinity Photo is really straightforward to do, and our six-step walkthrough shows you how. This means you can create a ‘look’ in Affinity Photo and then export a LUT file which can then be used by video editing software, for example, to recreate that look in a movie. You can download LUT files and use them within Affinity Photo, but you can also make creative adjustments inside Affinity Photo and export these as LUT files of your own. They’re a little like monitor and printer profiles, but instead of being used to correct colours, they’re used to deliberately modify and shift image tones for a creative effect. LUTs are ‘lookup tables’ which remap the pixels in an image on to new colour and tone values. This is shown clearly by its support for LUT adjustments, a fast-emerging standard for recreating specific ‘looks’ across different software applications. ![]() * and just as an anecdotal note: after creating this video I decided to rename the "Trace LUTs" category in Exposure to "Cinema LUTs" for better reference to the Cinematic LUTs files.Our ballet dancer was posed under regular studio lights with a rather bland colour rendition, but our custom LUT recreates theatrical stage lighting and can be used for video grading too How to make LUT adjustments in Affinity PhotoĪffinity Photo is a full-powered, professional photo editing application which is available in both Mac, and Windows and iPad versions, and which works brilliantly alongside other professional creative tools. Exposure is leading the way in the use of LUTs, will the other players catch up? So, there you go, the state of the LUT world to date. Safe to say that Capture One Pro 2020 really hasn't gotten onboard the LUT train. There is no dedicated LUT pathway, and C1 instead relies on its Styles feature. Pretty crazy!Ĭapture One Pro is the worst at handling the use of LUTs, and as a complete all-around image editor it is way behind other programs. Here is another video showing an even more convoluted approach using a third party 3-D LUT creation software for Lightroom. Adobe chose to make LUTs work in the Profiles menu, which is not all together intuitive. Here is a clear explanation from Scott Kelby on how to import LUTs into Adobe Lightroom (you have a subscription, right?) that is pretty "hackey" compared to the Affinity-Exposure route. And the options for tweaking the color grading are limited compared to Exposure X5: In fact, it's currently a bit, shall we say, "cludgy" by comparison in some programs. Now, in researching this phenomenon of creating your own custom LUTs, and importing and using them in your image editor of choice, I discovered the process is not as seamless as it should be. They are ahead of the game and I expect it will only get better. I've not seen any other image editing program with the same versatility as Exposure. Part two of the integration process for me is the easy and powerful tools within Exposure X5 (soon to be X6) with its dedicated LUTs tool tab. The first step in LUT creation resides in the incredibly powerful Affinity Photowhich has great LUT integration both in the creating, saving, and using of them if you prefer to do all of your image editing in Affinity (here is a short video on one of my favorite features in Affinity Photo - Using the Infer LUT feature.) One thing not mentioned in the video above is that these same LUT files can be imported into Affinity Photo for iPad so you have the same color grading tools for on-the-go editing as you do on a desktop. The best description I have heard of what a LUT is, is it's a file that tells a program how to remap the colors in an image. Now it is really easy to create your own custom, dynamic looks and apply them to your images with the right tools. LUTs have become really popular recently for photographers wanting to create a unique look for their images after looking over the shoulders of video creators and seeing some of the cool and beautiful color grading effects they have achieved. (the above video is best viewed in full screen mode.) Creating and using custom LUTS for still photography is easy and fun using Affinity Photo and Exposure X5. ![]()
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