From the course: Creating Presets, LUTs, and Profiles for Photography

Using LUTs with Photoshop

From the course: Creating Presets, LUTs, and Profiles for Photography

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Using LUTs with Photoshop

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- Now that you understand the basics of creating a LUT, let's explore how to access them inside of Photoshop and some advanced controls like blending. Using a lookup table in Photoshop is very simple. You have two ways of doing it. From the Image menu, you can choose Adjustments and select Color Lookup. This allows you to choose from the built-in LUTs and simply apply them. But this isn't nearly as flexible. My suggestion instead, is you go to the Adjustments panel and then click the icon here for Color Lookup. You now can click and choose through different built-in looks. Or select Load 3D LUT. This allows you to use your own custom. Navigate to the exercise folder. And you'll find that I've included some LUTS for you to explore. Let's try this nice fields LUT then click open. And you see it instantly applies. If I want to audition another one I can just load it and select an option here, like sunset. You see that the color is changed based upon the LUT. Now, the color lookup view's pretty absolute. Once you apply these, which you'll notice is just a simple on off option. Now you could also combine these if you want to put two LUTS together. For example, I'm using built-in filmstock LUT and then I apply my sunset LUT. But in this case it's a little strong. So I'll adjust the opacity to blend those together. Remember, as you add these you still may find the need to use a curve or other adjustment to optimize the image. But this gives you simple click access that you can apply to tweak the look of a photo very quickly.

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