How to Make a LUT In Photoshop
Making Custom LUTS in Photoshop
If you want to make a LUT in Photoshop, it’s actually quite simple. I’ll give it to you in a nutshell here and then break it down, step by step.
Create some adjustment layers on your image
Choose Files>Export>Color Look Up Tables
Choose 3DLut, or Cube
Name it and save it.
Watch the video to see all the steps and an explanation of what’s going on.
Here is a tutorial on how to use LUTS and how to add them to the menus in Photoshop
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Thanks for these great tutorials !
Will the LUTS work in earlier versions of PS.
That is the brilliance of your tuts because every time one listens to one will learn something new and thus make him/her more PS proficient.Thanks buddy. there
It really helps to both see the demo of how you create, save, load and use LUTs, Colin, as well as have the printed step x step to accompany that. Thx! I am going to experiment more with LUTs now.
Thank You – I learn so much from your tutorials!
Yes, they will work in earlier versions of PS
This should be called “How to save your LUT” because it doesn’t teach you how to create the adjustment layers. I have 20 years experience in PS and never used such layers. Incomplete tutorial. EDIT: This comment applies to the written version.
Thats why I suggest watching the video as well, I sometimes don’t have the time to write out each and every step.
I have some qustions about this LUT process……..
Can I add and export PNG image as .3dl or .Cube file????